January 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Then and Now: 2017 vs 2025. Dems don't have an answer to Trump 2.0. Clay and Buck come to Zuck’s defense over his boob glance. TN Sen. Bill Hagerty on what comes next. Time to party!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Donald Trump, forty seventh President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It is official.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We hope you were listening to us live as we
carry that swearing in and also the inaugural address. Buck
and I are up here in Washington, d C in
our iHeart Studios. We will be out tonight. Lives are excited,
got their dresses ready for the inaugural ball scene should
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be an incredible celebration all over Washington, d C. Hundreds
of thousands of Trump voters have traveled here to celebrate.
Soon there will be a big rally inside of the
Capital One Arena, and there are so many different things
to get to. Major breaking news going to be happening
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a lot in the near future now that Trump is
back in office. Let me hit you with several different
things if you're just if you've been busy and you
haven't been plugged in to know exactly what it's been
taking place.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Today.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Began this morning to find out that Joe Biden had
pardoned doctor Fauci, the January sixth Committee, anyone involved in
that investigation, the Liz Cheney crew, right before literally in
the final moments, final minutes of his presidency, before Trump
took office, Biden pardoned most of his family five brothers
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and sisters for potential crimes going all the way back,
preempted pardons because they haven't been charged, preempted pardons going
all the way back to twenty fourteen. The Biden crime
family was real, and all of you and us who've
been talking about it for years. Biden further cemented that
by pardoning Hunter and his five brothers and sisters preemptively
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again they haven't been charged with any crime. Trump then
delivered buck what I think was maybe the best speech
of his political career, with just an incredible recitation of
his plans and his belief in the future of America.
And he has already begun to take action. He's going
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to be taking action more and more as more and
more of these details come out. But for instance, he
has already ended the CBP one app, which was allowing
hundreds of thousands of people a year to claim asylum
online and come into the country. Reports that he will
end birthright citizenship. Men and women are the only two
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genders he's put an order in. He said that he's
going to almost immediately allow service members ejected for not
taking the COVID shot to come back with full back pay,
and all of this moving in just an incredibly electric
and rapid fashion, and Buck I kind of hinted at
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this a little bit before, But the final bit of
this swearing in, taking for the first time since nineteen
eighty five in the rotunda, was Carrie Underwood singing a
cappella after the audio background of her supporting music was
not allowed. It turned into an incredibly powerful, iconic moment
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of shared celebration of America. And to me, as I
watched this, and as we have been here all weekend
experiencing it, we have never seen sports, business and culture
all aligned behind Donald Trump like we are seeing right now.
Whether it is Carrie Underwood as I said, singing Snoop
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dogg rapping at trump inaugural balls, the number of sports figures,
whether it was Connor McGregor, Logan and Jake Paul in
the crowd there, and then Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim
Cook of Apple, Elon Musk, all of these major business
titans aligned and cheering on Trump. We are set. As
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Trump began his address by by saying it buck for
a new Golden Age of America. Well, you know this
is all part of I think the recognition that has
occurred at a national recognition, maybe even a reckoning, that
Trump is not some one off political fluke, that MAGA
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is not just some slogan that caught fire in some
election cycle back in twenty sixteen, never to really reach
its full potential and have its full day. This now
shows that we are living in an era of a
Trump movement, a Trump presidency, and an agenda that I
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think can be transformative. And I think the agenda going forward.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Has been laid out in a way that it is
both a cheat largely achievable, and also more than half
the country I think really does want these things to
have and spoke very clearly in this last election something
that I think is interesting, Clay, and this just struck
me in our in our last commercial break, you know
(05:08):
that Trump was impeached for talking about a Biden family
corruption issue. And he was. He was impeached, not only
completely attacked and undermined by all of the Democrat media
for this, the legacy corporate media for this, but he
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was impeached and threatened with removal, well, threatened with being
banned from from office. Really, and now we have Joe
Biden pardoning his family on the way out, which, as
you just told me as well CNN is even saying,
is a stain on his legacy. It is a remarkable
turnabout in so many ways. Imagine if you could have
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said four years ago, when this argument was being made
about a little more than that, but about Trump and
impeachment to the second impeachment, I'm sorry, the first impeachment.
I was getting confused the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
Imagine if when you had said that, you'd say, well,
you know Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's family, you know
his brother and sisters, they're going to get pardons from
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Joe Biden for federal crimes not yet specified. You would
have that would have been the argument ender for you.
I mean, that would have been so clear. Well, then
then there's obviously nothing that is untoward or unethical or
illegal about President Trump bringing up federal crimes. There's no Oh,
my daddy is important. My daddy's Joe Biden. So I
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get to commit crimes part of the Constitution or of
any federal law. So I just think that so much
has been brought full circle today, and we've seen so
much of the truth, and I just want everyone to
really take it all in and remember and remember that
you were on the right side of this, that you
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saw through the lies, that you knew that he wasn't
a threat to democracy, that it wasn't an insurrection, that
he's not a fascist, that actually the people who were
saying that are the threat, or were the threat to
all of those things, and to our institutions and to
our sacred constitution, all of these things. That the country
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is healing, Clay, That's really what it feels like right now.
There has been a restoration of sanity that has all
come together on this day.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And I know that they are going to create opposition
at some point in time. But as we talked about
being in DC and seeing how frankly pathetic and Moreau's
even the protesters look, it's like they've punched themselves out.
(07:52):
You know how in a boxing match sometimes you have
two big heavyweights that are throwing a lot of punches
in the first few rounds and then they just start
leaning on each other. Yeah, and there isn't that ability
to throw a punch. I don't know that anybody in
the Democrat Party right now has the ability to throw
or land a punch on Trump, and I think that's
(08:12):
one of the reasons why they're trying to act so
quickly right now, is because they recognize the weakness of
the opposition and they sort of want to flood the
zone with activities that they know are very important, but
that you can't do one at a time without creating
an opportunity for your opponent to punch back. I think
this is a sign of Trump's lessons that he's learned,
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and the sophistication and also and emboldened. Trump came within
a quarter inch of having his head blown off on
live television. They tried to kill him again while he
was golfing in mar A Lago. He said, I was
saved by God to make America great again. I think
maybe that Trump twenty twenty five feels a sense of
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destiny and purpose, and even Trump twenty seventeen did not.
And you talked about the character arc or the hero's
journey that often we follow from a narrative perspective, it
feels to me like, unlike in twenty seventeen, when Trump
may well have felt and since intuitively the struggles of America,
he didn't necessarily know how to address them. Now he's
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got a plan, he's got his cadre of advisors in place,
his cabinet, he knows what to do and how to
execute on a vision. And I think the next eighteen months,
if he continues with this momentum, is going to be
some of the most compelling leadership and advances in American
history that we've ever seen based on the election of
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a president. That's how optimistic I am. In many of
the people on the streets of Washington, d C. In
their MAGA caps, it's how they feel.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I believe we haven't even been able to get into yet.
Just the fact that the economy. I think there's just
an assumption that is baked in right now and has
been in the market since Trump's win, that this economy
is going to start roaring again, that wages are going
to increase, that inflation is going to is going to
be more in check than we've seen in four years,
(10:14):
That productivity everything from small business startups to big mergers
and acquisitions to you name it. The business of the
American people is once again going to be business and
not cronyism and overregulation and quasi socialism and all this
other nonsense that you have to deal with with Democrats.
So I think we're heading into a time of tremendous
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economic growth and expansion in ways that the American people
will feel. You know. The one of the big fails
of the Biden presidency, and there are so many, but
one of them was not only that the economy was
far weaker than it would have been had Trump been
president the last four years, but also the clay They
(10:58):
kept telling people, Oh, the economy is better than you
think it is. And I don't think that's ever going
to be a winning message.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't think telling people who see gas and grocery
and rent prices skyrocket, who see super high mortgage rates
for their homes, you know, who were seeing and feeling
that economic pain, telling them, Oh, be quiet, it's great, peasant.
You know, now's not the time for your complaints. That's
(11:26):
what Biden tried and failed to do, or you know,
tried to convince people of. And I think that now
you're going to see an economy that is up and
flourishing and doing the things that we know are possible
when the business of the American people can be business center.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Bill Haggerty's going to join us at bottom of the hour.
I'm interested to hear from him. He was just a
few steps away as the swearing in, and as the
Carrie Underwood song, and as Trump delivered his address. What
the vibe was inside of that rotunda where only a
few hundred people were allowed because they weren't doing it
outside as they have in the past. We will break
that down with him, Buck. I still think there's so
(12:04):
many moving parts associated with the early actions of Trump
and also the belated final actions of Joe Biden. I
believe as we go to break here, can we play
this audio clip. I wanted to make sure we hit it.
This is CNN as Biden is flying away in the helicopter,
basically acknowledging how disgraced he is given the pardons that
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he gave to his family. Again, CNN is saying this, listen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's just unseemly. If you're going to do it, have
the courage to do it in the light of day
and explain it to the American people. It's a stain
on his legacy to do it like this.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
When CNN is calling it the stain on Biden's legacy,
that they're done with the defense.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This is why I keep saying there's no de facto
leadership of the Democrat Party because they shoved aside and
will no longer defend their formerly incumbent president and their
former nominee Kamala Harris was a disaster for them, and
that they are I've never seen them scrambling like this.
(13:06):
I've never seen so much Democrat messaging impudence as I
see right now. There's just they've got nothing, and it's
it's remarkable. Whether it's the sad protesters you know, shaking
their knees together out in the cold streets here, all
the way up to prime time CNN and the front
page of the New York Times, it all. Clay just
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Welcome back into Clay. And I've got to throw a
flag on something here, Clay. Okay, it's a great day
for America. Fantastic stuff happening, the most joyous inauguration that
I can remember, and we are so excited for the future.
And it's been such an honor to have all of
you with us, as we had to kind of ride
through the Biden presidency together, and now we are entering
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the clear and beautiful skies ahead of four years of Trump.
But I gotta throw a flag here. Jeff Bezos's fiance
is at the inauguration, and there are people who are
pointing out that she has a top that is a
(15:53):
little risque, perhaps a lot of cleavage for an inauguration,
and they have taken zucker and I'm talking the Daily
Mail has decided that Zuckerberg glanced in her direction and
they are now it is going megaviral a photo of
the two hundred billion dollar man Zuckerberg looking in the
(16:13):
general direction of Bezos's fiancees cleavage. And this is being
called a scandal, sir, a scandal at the inauguration. I say,
you know, Zuckerberg's a dude, he's a bro. He's he's
moving into bro town a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And you know, if you're a heterosexual man and a
woman sitting next to you is wearing a boob top,
you have to have superhuman self awareness to not allow
your eyes to in any way gaze in any direction
upon her cleavage. He reminds me, do you remember a
lot of you will? The Seinfeld where George Costanza gets
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caught looking at the daughter of his would be business
partner at her cleavage, and the dad comes up and says,
you get a long enough look there, Costanza, And then
Jerry says that cleavage is like the sun. You can't
stare at it. You have to glance and then immediately
look away. The problem, the problem for Zucker versus.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Stare.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I mean, I don't know how long it has to
last to be to be considered what inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Maybe Zuck was just taken aback by the by the
inappropriate nature of the display.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I think looks we're back First Amendment gonna be protected
by Donald Trump. I think boobs are protected by Trump too.
He's certainly not going to be offended. And maybe this
is just a sign that Zuckerberg's got a little bit
more testosterone than people were giving him credit for.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The guy starts wearing a chain and doing jiu jitsu,
and occasionally he sneaks a peak. I don't know, I
mean it is this is America after all, Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
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us now. He was in the rotunda watching the speech,
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watching Carrie Underwood's amazing rendition of an a cappella song
that soared throughout the entire rotunda. Senator, You've done a
lot of interesting things, certainly in your life and in
your career, But what was that experience like just a
couple of hours ago in the Capitol, And what do
you think the early days of the Trump administration are
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going to be like it?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
With with with marriage and fatherhood, getting to participate in
something like that that's so transformational for our nation and
so desperately needed right now. And you mentioned Carrie's voice,
just spectacular, and we all were there singing, you know, Democrat, Republican,
you know, minister, politician, military man, everybody was singing throughout
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the hall.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It was just Spectacularator, Senator, thank you so much for
being with us. Buck, how do you rank in your
mind the feeling of optimism and the sense of destiny
that we have on this look. There have been other
Republican administrations that have come in, and including Trump himself,
there have been other exciting days, to be sure, and
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you know the not too distant past. But how does
this one rank and fit in among them? And what
do you see as the most important steps that the
president can take here in the opening days.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Buck, I think it's at the very top. And here's
the reason. And in the first instance, they're just like
this collective sigh of relief across the entire country that
this four year experiment in Marxism is over. But beyond that,
there's a sense of optimism too, because Donald Trump is
bringing that. People know now that he's got the capability
and the mandate to make our nation great again, as
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he likes to say, but to make certain that we're
as exceptional as we possibly can be. This nation has
so much potential, and he's going to help us realize that.
He pointed to the fact that we've got the greatest
oil and gas resources of any nation in the world,
and we're going to use them. You know, He's going
to take the actions necessary to boldly put us at
the top of every metric. And I think America is
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going to feel great about that. It gets the backdrop
buck of a population at seventy five percent of this
nation said that we were on the wrong track before
election day. And this is again back to the first point,
a collective sigh of relief in a sunshine of optimism
that I feel like just unbolding right here in our
nation's capital of there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
How optimistic are you, Senator about the fifty three Senate
majority that you helped to make a reality that is
going to be ready to support Trump. How quickly do
you think the bills start getting passed? How quickly should
he be expected to sign them? For people out there
listening right now that say, okay, let's take a breath.
We're excited. We're celebrating the absence the basically, the ending
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of the Biden regime, the return of Trump. What should
happen first in your mind? And what should people expect
the Senate to be doing well?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The most important thing is getting the team team around
the president that he needs to execute on his plans.
And this afternoon, I'm going to meet I'm going to
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We're going to vote Senator Marco
Rubio out of our committee to be our next secretary
of State. The Democrats will have their chance. Let's see
if they will, because if they cooperate with us, we
can confirm Marco Rubio tonight to be our next Secretary
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of State. Simile John Ratcliffe, he's our nominee to be
CIA Director. We desperately need to have these national security
positions in place. I'd like to see John come out
of committee tonight. I'd like to see my Democrat colleagues
cooperate with us. Certainly we need seven more. We've only
got fifty three. And it requires, you know, it'll it'll
require them to agree to change the procedures, to accelerate
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the procedures, to get these people out. When the ultimate
vote takes place, we'll get it, because you only need
fifty plus one to make that work. But to compress
the time and accelerate these nominations, which is what I
hope we do tonight and send a message to the
rest of the world that we're serious about our national security.
The first chance happens tonight, let's suit the Crats do. Then,
I think what you're going to see is just a
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rapid progression of our nominees, particularly when you think about
Pete Hegseit for DoD you think about Cash to Tell
and Pembondi in the top law enforcement positions at the
FBI and the dj We're going to be moving a
pace to get President Trump's team around him as quickly
as possible. And I hope that Democrats got the message
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on election day in November the sixth that America needs
to see a change and we need to give a
President trumpet team he needs to make it happen. Back
to the legislation, tonight, we're going to be voting on
the Lake and Riley Act, and I hope that President
Trump will be in a position assign that as his
very first first piece of legislation. What that will do
is it will make certain that people that enter our
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country illegally and commit a crime will be detained by ice,
picked up and deported. They won't be allowed to go
out and commit more crimes the way that they occurred
under the Biden administration. That's exactly how Lake and Rally
was killed. A criminal that invaded our country, commits crimes
in another state, moves down to Georgia, and it again
a heinus murder that he should have never been on
the streets and this will stop just that. So I'm
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expecting to see rapid pace with legislation ready for the
president's signature, you know, as early as.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Tomorrow, Senator Haggerty. You know, the last time Trump took office,
I remember I was in New York City and there
were already these kind of ferocious, I would argue, somewhat
deranged anti Trump marches going on in the streets, and
there was the hashtag resistance and this feeling that there
was unity among Democrats that they would do everything and
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cross really ethical boundaries and legal boundaries as well in
order to stop this president. This time around, it feels
much more like the Democrats are it's desolate out there
in protests land. It's pretty quiet in the Democrat media,
you know, platforms and from some of their their bigger shows,
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and the front pages of their newspapers just don't seemed
to have the gusto for the fight anymore. Do you
feel like the opposition is particularly dejected and what are
your expectations for how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's totally different back during the twenty sixteen race. I
was one of President Trump's finance chairmen. The day after
the election, I moved into Trump Tower for the transition effort. There,
they had barricades all around the tower. People were shouting
at us, spitting at us. It was just unbelievable, chanting
not my president, not my president. And they had organized protests.
We thought they were paid because they all got together
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at the same time every day and the camera showed
up and they knew exactly what they're doing. But that
went on for weeks, and I certainly don't feel about
it all to day because I think the Democrats, even
surprise surprise, can do math. And the math is this,
President Trump won in a landslide. President Trump took the
majority of thought, he took the popular vote here in America,
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Democrats came up way short. And if you just look
at the poland seventy five percent of Americans feel like
or felt like America was on the wrong track. I
don't see how they could possibly decide the numbers. America
isn't with them. The media, I think has changed as well.
Great allies of the Democrat Party and the mainstream media,
but I think everybody on that side has got to
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take a very hard look at the fact that the
Americans have made their sentiment known. Trump won every battleground
state in America. That is a mandate, and I think
their restates can the entirety of their party's platform and
the fact that this war year experiment in socialism has
not worked.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We're talking to Senator Bill Haggerty, who is excited to
be enacting President Trump's agenda. Do you feel comfortable, based
on what you see, Senator, that all of the cabinet
nominees that require Senate approval look good to get approved.
Where do you see that battleground? I know you mentioned
that they may try to obstruct and make it take longer,
but by and large, do you think the votes are
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there for Trump's people to all get confirmed.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I really do feel that way right now. I don't see,
you know, anything on the horizon today that makes me
think that these people will not get confirmed. The question
is whether procedurally the Democrats will throw every road dock
in place that they can. As I mentioned earlier, we've
got to have their cooperation to accelerate the timelines to
get people voted. Otherwise the Senate is sort of a
slow process, and they may decide to use procedural means
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to make us run the timeline out on every single
procedural step when there's another way, there's another way to
get this done much faster, and as soon as these
people have gotten through the Committee of Jurisdiction, they should
be ready for a vote. Again, I'm optimistic, a little
bit guarded, but I'm optimistic that tonight we'll have a
first chest of this. I'm optimistic that Marco Rubio again,
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I'm certain he's going to clear the Senate Porn Relations
Committee that I sit on to be our next sextair state.
And I'm hopeful that all of our Democrat colleagues will say, look,
this is something that needs to get done to our
nation security. We're not going to slow it down. We're
going to move them out tonight. Saying for John Radcliffs at.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
CIA, what do you think about Biden pardoning five brothers
and sisters. We already know that he's pardoned his son Hunter,
as well as the decision to part in Fauci. A
lot of the individuals involved in the January sixth committee.
What does it do to Biden Biden's legacy, What does
it do to any Democrat argument for respective rule of.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Law, Well, I think it's just a complete mockery of
the rule of law and Joe Biden. If you look
at the press release that they put out, Biden says
he's doing this to protect these people, his family members,
people like Fauci, the j Six Committee against quote unjustified
and politically motivated prosecutions. That's about as rich as it
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can get coming from Joe Biden, because he's the one
that used an unjust justified, politically motivated prosecution to go
after his number one political opponent. America saw this. The
hypocrisy is just unbelievable. I'm certain that the mainstream media
will not call him out for this hypocrisy, but I'm
telling you and all of the listeners right now, this
is a mockery of justice. And the Democrats have no
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had to hang, no where to hang your hat anymore
when it comes to talking about democracy injustice in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Senator Haggerty, we think there are great things ahead. We
know you're going to be a big part of it.
We appreciate you making the time for us today and
looking forward to speaking with you. With Donald Trump as president,
it's going to be exciting.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Claim, but great to be with you. Thanks so much,
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
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Speaker 2 (31:01):
We are closing up are Inauguration day coverage here for
the day before we go out and party and Clay
gets to see all of my funky TikTok inspired dance. Oh,
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Real News, Real talk, Uh, Clay, it's it's now transitioning.
I think for the uh, the crowds gathered and everything
to just celebration mode. It feels quite a bit like
(31:43):
our team collectively has won the super Bowl or the
Stanley Cup or you know, pick your trophy, pick your
your sports moment, and everyone's in a great mood and
it's going to be a phenomenal night out there on
the town.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It should be, and uh, we expect that the next
several days you're gonna want to make sure that you're
listening because I think the rapidity with which the Trump
team is going to move to put their plans in
place is going to mean that any moment on the show,
we're gonna have something that probably you're gonna agree with.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know, the Trump is being done, are already making
their way through security at the White House. I saw
now they're taking their offices, taking their positions, and moving
like they have urgency, which is exactly what we want to.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
See and you may need to have some urgency in
your life. I bet tomorrow morning we're gonna need some
Crocket coffee. We haven't mentioned it all during the day,
but maybe maybe you're gonna have a little bit too
much to drink to celebrate tonight. Maybe you have had
a fun weekend of activities. I know that I'm gonna
be loading up because you got a super early morning fun.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's definitely gonna be drinking. We did bring to our Georgia,
to our DC abode. We did bring some Crocket coffee
with us to make sure that we're ready to go.
So go to Crocketcoffee dot com. I think we could
say it is the unofficial inauguration coffee. There you go.
I will declare the unofficial coffee of Trub's inauguration.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
It's probably the only coffee company where one hundred percent
of the employees voted Trump.
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Speaker 3 (33:23):
You know.
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heading out tonight on the town clan our with our
wives and we're gonna be you know, rubbin elbows with
the maga faithful people just coming into town on the
(33:45):
streets all the way up to I'm sure we'll see
some of the big names that will be a part
of this administration and giving them high fives and talk
to them about how, you know, you just got to
save the country, save the Western world, maybe save the planet.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know, no big deal, no big no big challenge, sports, business,
culture all aligning. It seems like a silly thing. But
YMCA showing up and singing YMCA for the village people
singing YMCA, it really does, I think, indicate that the
opposition is basically vanished and that we are headed for
(34:21):
what I hope is a new golden age.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's gonna be absolutely fantastic. And I got to tell you,
you know, Clay, we had to be we had to
keep the faith we had. And I say we, I
mean you me. We started this together, this show together
and the sacred trust of this audience placed in us
during the Biden administration. Okay, we all had to just
(34:46):
you know, just dig deep and bear it and deal
with it and the whole thing. It is really exciting
to be sitting here and looking forward to doing years
more of this show in a Trump era where we
get to have our team on offense in all the
best ways. We've really had to play defense up until
certainly this election cycle, where Trump was able to make
(35:09):
the case right. It has been trying to bring the
truth to people, trying to slow down the destructive Democrat machine. Well,
now the cavalry has come over the hill and the
good guys have won the day, and there's, like I said,
a sense of urgency from the Trump team, and I
think from all of these folks, all of these individuals
(35:32):
who have a tremendous it's a tremendous honor. It is
also a tremendous obligation. It is something that they have
to see through here. The American people are counting on them.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
No doubt, and I am excited. This is the very
first time we've had an opportunity to do a show
without having to worry about Joe Biden being in office,
and I know Rush would be excited. I know he
would be ecstatic.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
He's looked down smiling on today's festivities, no question about it,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And we are certainly glad to be able to Man
are we glad to be able to start to stack
some wins. We'll be hanging out with you. We're gonna
go check out the scene around the inaugural balls tonight,
and we hope that you guys have a great time.
Probably see some of you all over DC and we'll
be back right back with you.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And if you see someone take the stage by the
way with a turtleneck and a flute and it looks
like Clay, it might just be Clay. I'm putting that
out there.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
May have to bump Carrie Underwood off the stage and
break out my mad skills on the flute.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
No telling what AI is going to do with a
lot of the celebrations and the new Trump error, So
just keep your head on a swivel. You've got no
idea what's real, what's fake.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And remember, if you see Lauren Sanchez, keep your eye eyes,
keep your eyes high
Welcome back in Donald Trump, forty seventh President of the
United States.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It is official.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We hope you were listening to us live as we
carry that swearing in and also the inaugural address. Buck
and I are up here in Washington, d C in
our iHeart Studios. We will be out tonight. Lives are excited,
got their dresses ready for the inaugural ball scene should
(00:27):
be an incredible celebration all over Washington, d C. Hundreds
of thousands of Trump voters have traveled here to celebrate.
Soon there will be a big rally inside of the
Capital One Arena, and there are so many different things
to get to. Major breaking news going to be happening
(00:50):
a lot in the near future now that Trump is
back in office. Let me hit you with several different
things if you're just if you've been busy and you
haven't been plugged in to know exactly what it's been
taking place.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Today.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Began this morning to find out that Joe Biden had
pardoned doctor Fauci, the January sixth Committee, anyone involved in
that investigation, the Liz Cheney crew, right before literally in
the final moments, final minutes of his presidency, before Trump
took office, Biden pardoned most of his family five brothers
(01:24):
and sisters for potential crimes going all the way back,
preempted pardons because they haven't been charged, preempted pardons going
all the way back to twenty fourteen. The Biden crime
family was real, and all of you and us who've
been talking about it for years. Biden further cemented that
by pardoning Hunter and his five brothers and sisters preemptively
(01:48):
again they haven't been charged with any crime. Trump then
delivered buck what I think was maybe the best speech
of his political career, with just an incredible recitation of
his plans and his belief in the future of America.
And he has already begun to take action. He's going
(02:11):
to be taking action more and more as more and
more of these details come out. But for instance, he
has already ended the CBP one app, which was allowing
hundreds of thousands of people a year to claim asylum
online and come into the country. Reports that he will
end birthright citizenship. Men and women are the only two
(02:34):
genders he's put an order in. He said that he's
going to almost immediately allow service members ejected for not
taking the COVID shot to come back with full back pay,
and all of this moving in just an incredibly electric
and rapid fashion, and Buck I kind of hinted at
(02:54):
this a little bit before, But the final bit of
this swearing in, taking for the first time since nineteen
eighty five in the rotunda, was Carrie Underwood singing a
cappella after the audio background of her supporting music was
not allowed. It turned into an incredibly powerful, iconic moment
(03:15):
of shared celebration of America. And to me, as I
watched this, and as we have been here all weekend
experiencing it, we have never seen sports, business and culture
all aligned behind Donald Trump like we are seeing right now.
Whether it is Carrie Underwood as I said, singing Snoop
(03:36):
dogg rapping at trump inaugural balls, the number of sports figures,
whether it was Connor McGregor, Logan and Jake Paul in
the crowd there, and then Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim
Cook of Apple, Elon Musk, all of these major business
titans aligned and cheering on Trump. We are set. As
(03:58):
Trump began his address by by saying it buck for
a new Golden Age of America. Well, you know this
is all part of I think the recognition that has
occurred at a national recognition, maybe even a reckoning, that
Trump is not some one off political fluke, that MAGA
(04:19):
is not just some slogan that caught fire in some
election cycle back in twenty sixteen, never to really reach
its full potential and have its full day. This now
shows that we are living in an era of a
Trump movement, a Trump presidency, and an agenda that I
(04:42):
think can be transformative. And I think the agenda going forward.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Has been laid out in a way that it is
both a cheat largely achievable, and also more than half
the country I think really does want these things to
have and spoke very clearly in this last election something
that I think is interesting, Clay, and this just struck
me in our in our last commercial break, you know
(05:08):
that Trump was impeached for talking about a Biden family
corruption issue. And he was. He was impeached, not only
completely attacked and undermined by all of the Democrat media
for this, the legacy corporate media for this, but he
(05:29):
was impeached and threatened with removal, well, threatened with being
banned from from office. Really, and now we have Joe
Biden pardoning his family on the way out, which, as
you just told me as well CNN is even saying,
is a stain on his legacy. It is a remarkable
turnabout in so many ways. Imagine if you could have
(05:53):
said four years ago, when this argument was being made
about a little more than that, but about Trump and
impeachment to the second impeachment, I'm sorry, the first impeachment.
I was getting confused the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
Imagine if when you had said that, you'd say, well,
you know Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's family, you know
his brother and sisters, they're going to get pardons from
(06:16):
Joe Biden for federal crimes not yet specified. You would
have that would have been the argument ender for you.
I mean, that would have been so clear. Well, then
then there's obviously nothing that is untoward or unethical or
illegal about President Trump bringing up federal crimes. There's no Oh,
my daddy is important. My daddy's Joe Biden. So I
(06:40):
get to commit crimes part of the Constitution or of
any federal law. So I just think that so much
has been brought full circle today, and we've seen so
much of the truth, and I just want everyone to
really take it all in and remember and remember that
you were on the right side of this, that you
(07:00):
saw through the lies, that you knew that he wasn't
a threat to democracy, that it wasn't an insurrection, that
he's not a fascist, that actually the people who were
saying that are the threat, or were the threat to
all of those things, and to our institutions and to
our sacred constitution, all of these things. That the country
(07:24):
is healing, Clay, That's really what it feels like right now.
There has been a restoration of sanity that has all
come together on this day.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And I know that they are going to create opposition
at some point in time. But as we talked about
being in DC and seeing how frankly pathetic and Moreau's
even the protesters look, it's like they've punched themselves out.
(07:52):
You know how in a boxing match sometimes you have
two big heavyweights that are throwing a lot of punches
in the first few rounds and then they just start
leaning on each other. Yeah, and there isn't that ability
to throw a punch. I don't know that anybody in
the Democrat Party right now has the ability to throw
or land a punch on Trump, and I think that's
(08:12):
one of the reasons why they're trying to act so
quickly right now, is because they recognize the weakness of
the opposition and they sort of want to flood the
zone with activities that they know are very important, but
that you can't do one at a time without creating
an opportunity for your opponent to punch back. I think
this is a sign of Trump's lessons that he's learned,
(08:36):
and the sophistication and also and emboldened. Trump came within
a quarter inch of having his head blown off on
live television. They tried to kill him again while he
was golfing in mar A Lago. He said, I was
saved by God to make America great again. I think
maybe that Trump twenty twenty five feels a sense of
(08:58):
destiny and purpose, and even Trump twenty seventeen did not.
And you talked about the character arc or the hero's
journey that often we follow from a narrative perspective, it
feels to me like, unlike in twenty seventeen, when Trump
may well have felt and since intuitively the struggles of America,
he didn't necessarily know how to address them. Now he's
(09:21):
got a plan, he's got his cadre of advisors in place,
his cabinet, he knows what to do and how to
execute on a vision. And I think the next eighteen months,
if he continues with this momentum, is going to be
some of the most compelling leadership and advances in American
history that we've ever seen based on the election of
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a president. That's how optimistic I am. In many of
the people on the streets of Washington, d C. In
their MAGA caps, it's how they feel.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I believe we haven't even been able to get into yet.
Just the fact that the economy. I think there's just
an assumption that is baked in right now and has
been in the market since Trump's win, that this economy
is going to start roaring again, that wages are going
to increase, that inflation is going to is going to
be more in check than we've seen in four years,
(10:14):
That productivity everything from small business startups to big mergers
and acquisitions to you name it. The business of the
American people is once again going to be business and
not cronyism and overregulation and quasi socialism and all this
other nonsense that you have to deal with with Democrats.
So I think we're heading into a time of tremendous
(10:38):
economic growth and expansion in ways that the American people
will feel. You know. The one of the big fails
of the Biden presidency, and there are so many, but
one of them was not only that the economy was
far weaker than it would have been had Trump been
president the last four years, but also the clay They
(10:58):
kept telling people, Oh, the economy is better than you
think it is. And I don't think that's ever going
to be a winning message.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't think telling people who see gas and grocery
and rent prices skyrocket, who see super high mortgage rates
for their homes, you know, who were seeing and feeling
that economic pain, telling them, Oh, be quiet, it's great, peasant.
You know, now's not the time for your complaints. That's
(11:26):
what Biden tried and failed to do, or you know,
tried to convince people of. And I think that now
you're going to see an economy that is up and
flourishing and doing the things that we know are possible
when the business of the American people can be business center.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Bill Haggerty's going to join us at bottom of the hour.
I'm interested to hear from him. He was just a
few steps away as the swearing in, and as the
Carrie Underwood song, and as Trump delivered his address. What
the vibe was inside of that rotunda where only a
few hundred people were allowed because they weren't doing it
outside as they have in the past. We will break
that down with him, Buck. I still think there's so
(12:04):
many moving parts associated with the early actions of Trump
and also the belated final actions of Joe Biden. I
believe as we go to break here, can we play
this audio clip. I wanted to make sure we hit it.
This is CNN as Biden is flying away in the helicopter,
basically acknowledging how disgraced he is given the pardons that
(12:26):
he gave to his family. Again, CNN is saying this, listen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's just unseemly. If you're going to do it, have
the courage to do it in the light of day
and explain it to the American people. It's a stain
on his legacy to do it like this.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
When CNN is calling it the stain on Biden's legacy,
that they're done with the defense.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
This is why I keep saying there's no de facto
leadership of the Democrat Party because they shoved aside and
will no longer defend their formerly incumbent president and their
former nominee Kamala Harris was a disaster for them, and
that they are I've never seen them scrambling like this.
(13:06):
I've never seen so much Democrat messaging impudence as I
see right now. There's just they've got nothing, and it's
it's remarkable. Whether it's the sad protesters you know, shaking
their knees together out in the cold streets here, all
the way up to prime time CNN and the front
page of the New York Times, it all. Clay just
(13:28):
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News.
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You can count on and some laughs too. Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Welcome back into Clay. And I've got to throw a
flag on something here, Clay. Okay, it's a great day
for America. Fantastic stuff happening, the most joyous inauguration that
I can remember, and we are so excited for the future.
And it's been such an honor to have all of
you with us, as we had to kind of ride
through the Biden presidency together, and now we are entering
(15:33):
the clear and beautiful skies ahead of four years of Trump.
But I gotta throw a flag here. Jeff Bezos's fiance
is at the inauguration, and there are people who are
pointing out that she has a top that is a
(15:53):
little risque, perhaps a lot of cleavage for an inauguration,
and they have taken zucker and I'm talking the Daily
Mail has decided that Zuckerberg glanced in her direction and
they are now it is going megaviral a photo of
the two hundred billion dollar man Zuckerberg looking in the
(16:13):
general direction of Bezos's fiancees cleavage. And this is being
called a scandal, sir, a scandal at the inauguration. I say,
you know, Zuckerberg's a dude, he's a bro. He's he's
moving into bro town a little bit.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
And you know, if you're a heterosexual man and a
woman sitting next to you is wearing a boob top,
you have to have superhuman self awareness to not allow
your eyes to in any way gaze in any direction
upon her cleavage. He reminds me, do you remember a
lot of you will? The Seinfeld where George Costanza gets
(16:53):
caught looking at the daughter of his would be business
partner at her cleavage, and the dad comes up and says,
you get a long enough look there, Costanza, And then
Jerry says that cleavage is like the sun. You can't
stare at it. You have to glance and then immediately
look away. The problem, the problem for Zucker versus.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Stare.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
I mean, I don't know how long it has to
last to be to be considered what inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Maybe Zuck was just taken aback by the by the
inappropriate nature of the display.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I think looks we're back First Amendment gonna be protected
by Donald Trump. I think boobs are protected by Trump too.
He's certainly not going to be offended. And maybe this
is just a sign that Zuckerberg's got a little bit
more testosterone than people were giving him credit for.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The guy starts wearing a chain and doing jiu jitsu,
and occasionally he sneaks a peak. I don't know, I
mean it is this is America after all, Clay.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know, I think it's funny that they wrote an
entire article about it in a negative way. This is
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(19:00):
watching Carrie Underwood's amazing rendition of an a cappella song
that soared throughout the entire rotunda. Senator, You've done a
lot of interesting things, certainly in your life and in
your career, But what was that experience like just a
couple of hours ago in the Capitol, And what do
you think the early days of the Trump administration are
(19:22):
going to be like it?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
With with with marriage and fatherhood, getting to participate in
something like that that's so transformational for our nation and
so desperately needed right now. And you mentioned Carrie's voice,
just spectacular, and we all were there singing, you know, Democrat, Republican,
you know, minister, politician, military man, everybody was singing throughout
(19:46):
the hall.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It was just Spectacularator, Senator, thank you so much for
being with us. Buck, how do you rank in your
mind the feeling of optimism and the sense of destiny
that we have on this look. There have been other
Republican administrations that have come in, and including Trump himself,
there have been other exciting days, to be sure, and
(20:07):
you know the not too distant past. But how does
this one rank and fit in among them? And what
do you see as the most important steps that the
president can take here in the opening days.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Buck, I think it's at the very top. And here's
the reason. And in the first instance, they're just like
this collective sigh of relief across the entire country that
this four year experiment in Marxism is over. But beyond that,
there's a sense of optimism too, because Donald Trump is
bringing that. People know now that he's got the capability
and the mandate to make our nation great again, as
(20:42):
he likes to say, but to make certain that we're
as exceptional as we possibly can be. This nation has
so much potential, and he's going to help us realize that.
He pointed to the fact that we've got the greatest
oil and gas resources of any nation in the world,
and we're going to use them. You know, He's going
to take the actions necessary to boldly put us at
the top of every metric. And I think America is
(21:05):
going to feel great about that. It gets the backdrop
buck of a population at seventy five percent of this
nation said that we were on the wrong track before
election day. And this is again back to the first point,
a collective sigh of relief in a sunshine of optimism
that I feel like just unbolding right here in our
nation's capital of there.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
How optimistic are you, Senator about the fifty three Senate
majority that you helped to make a reality that is
going to be ready to support Trump. How quickly do
you think the bills start getting passed? How quickly should
he be expected to sign them? For people out there
listening right now that say, okay, let's take a breath.
We're excited. We're celebrating the absence the basically, the ending
(21:48):
of the Biden regime, the return of Trump. What should
happen first in your mind? And what should people expect
the Senate to be doing well?
Speaker 3 (21:57):
The most important thing is getting the team team around
the president that he needs to execute on his plans.
And this afternoon, I'm going to meet I'm going to
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We're going to vote Senator Marco
Rubio out of our committee to be our next secretary
of State. The Democrats will have their chance. Let's see
if they will, because if they cooperate with us, we
can confirm Marco Rubio tonight to be our next Secretary
(22:18):
of State. Simile John Ratcliffe, he's our nominee to be
CIA Director. We desperately need to have these national security
positions in place. I'd like to see John come out
of committee tonight. I'd like to see my Democrat colleagues
cooperate with us. Certainly we need seven more. We've only
got fifty three. And it requires, you know, it'll it'll
require them to agree to change the procedures, to accelerate
(22:41):
the procedures, to get these people out. When the ultimate
vote takes place, we'll get it, because you only need
fifty plus one to make that work. But to compress
the time and accelerate these nominations, which is what I
hope we do tonight and send a message to the
rest of the world that we're serious about our national security.
The first chance happens tonight, let's suit the Crats do. Then,
I think what you're going to see is just a
(23:02):
rapid progression of our nominees, particularly when you think about
Pete Hegseit for DoD you think about Cash to Tell
and Pembondi in the top law enforcement positions at the
FBI and the dj We're going to be moving a
pace to get President Trump's team around him as quickly
as possible. And I hope that Democrats got the message
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on election day in November the sixth that America needs
to see a change and we need to give a
President trumpet team he needs to make it happen. Back
to the legislation, tonight, we're going to be voting on
the Lake and Riley Act, and I hope that President
Trump will be in a position assign that as his
very first first piece of legislation. What that will do
is it will make certain that people that enter our
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country illegally and commit a crime will be detained by ice,
picked up and deported. They won't be allowed to go
out and commit more crimes the way that they occurred
under the Biden administration. That's exactly how Lake and Rally
was killed. A criminal that invaded our country, commits crimes
in another state, moves down to Georgia, and it again
a heinus murder that he should have never been on
the streets and this will stop just that. So I'm
(24:05):
expecting to see rapid pace with legislation ready for the
president's signature, you know, as early as.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Tomorrow, Senator Haggerty. You know, the last time Trump took office,
I remember I was in New York City and there
were already these kind of ferocious, I would argue, somewhat
deranged anti Trump marches going on in the streets, and
there was the hashtag resistance and this feeling that there
was unity among Democrats that they would do everything and
(24:33):
cross really ethical boundaries and legal boundaries as well in
order to stop this president. This time around, it feels
much more like the Democrats are it's desolate out there
in protests land. It's pretty quiet in the Democrat media,
you know, platforms and from some of their their bigger shows,
(24:57):
and the front pages of their newspapers just don't seemed
to have the gusto for the fight anymore. Do you
feel like the opposition is particularly dejected and what are
your expectations for how that plays out.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
It's totally different back during the twenty sixteen race. I
was one of President Trump's finance chairmen. The day after
the election, I moved into Trump Tower for the transition effort. There,
they had barricades all around the tower. People were shouting
at us, spitting at us. It was just unbelievable, chanting
not my president, not my president. And they had organized protests.
We thought they were paid because they all got together
(25:32):
at the same time every day and the camera showed
up and they knew exactly what they're doing. But that
went on for weeks, and I certainly don't feel about
it all to day because I think the Democrats, even
surprise surprise, can do math. And the math is this,
President Trump won in a landslide. President Trump took the
majority of thought, he took the popular vote here in America,
(25:54):
Democrats came up way short. And if you just look
at the poland seventy five percent of Americans feel like
or felt like America was on the wrong track. I
don't see how they could possibly decide the numbers. America
isn't with them. The media, I think has changed as well.
Great allies of the Democrat Party and the mainstream media,
but I think everybody on that side has got to
(26:17):
take a very hard look at the fact that the
Americans have made their sentiment known. Trump won every battleground
state in America. That is a mandate, and I think
their restates can the entirety of their party's platform and
the fact that this war year experiment in socialism has
not worked.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We're talking to Senator Bill Haggerty, who is excited to
be enacting President Trump's agenda. Do you feel comfortable, based
on what you see, Senator, that all of the cabinet
nominees that require Senate approval look good to get approved.
Where do you see that battleground? I know you mentioned
that they may try to obstruct and make it take longer,
but by and large, do you think the votes are
(26:53):
there for Trump's people to all get confirmed.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I really do feel that way right now. I don't see,
you know, anything on the horizon today that makes me
think that these people will not get confirmed. The question
is whether procedurally the Democrats will throw every road dock
in place that they can. As I mentioned earlier, we've
got to have their cooperation to accelerate the timelines to
get people voted. Otherwise the Senate is sort of a
slow process, and they may decide to use procedural means
(27:19):
to make us run the timeline out on every single
procedural step when there's another way, there's another way to
get this done much faster, and as soon as these
people have gotten through the Committee of Jurisdiction, they should
be ready for a vote. Again, I'm optimistic, a little
bit guarded, but I'm optimistic that tonight we'll have a
first chest of this. I'm optimistic that Marco Rubio again,
(27:39):
I'm certain he's going to clear the Senate Porn Relations
Committee that I sit on to be our next sextair state.
And I'm hopeful that all of our Democrat colleagues will say, look,
this is something that needs to get done to our
nation security. We're not going to slow it down. We're
going to move them out tonight. Saying for John Radcliffs at.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
CIA, what do you think about Biden pardoning five brothers
and sisters. We already know that he's pardoned his son Hunter,
as well as the decision to part in Fauci. A
lot of the individuals involved in the January sixth committee.
What does it do to Biden Biden's legacy, What does
it do to any Democrat argument for respective rule of.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Law, Well, I think it's just a complete mockery of
the rule of law and Joe Biden. If you look
at the press release that they put out, Biden says
he's doing this to protect these people, his family members,
people like Fauci, the j Six Committee against quote unjustified
and politically motivated prosecutions. That's about as rich as it
(28:34):
can get coming from Joe Biden, because he's the one
that used an unjust justified, politically motivated prosecution to go
after his number one political opponent. America saw this. The
hypocrisy is just unbelievable. I'm certain that the mainstream media
will not call him out for this hypocrisy, but I'm
telling you and all of the listeners right now, this
is a mockery of justice. And the Democrats have no
(28:56):
had to hang, no where to hang your hat anymore
when it comes to talking about democracy injustice in this country.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Senator Haggerty, we think there are great things ahead. We
know you're going to be a big part of it.
We appreciate you making the time for us today and
looking forward to speaking with you. With Donald Trump as president,
it's going to be exciting.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Claim, but great to be with you. Thanks so much,
Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
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Speaker 2 (31:01):
We are closing up are Inauguration day coverage here for
the day before we go out and party and Clay
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Real News, Real talk, Uh, Clay, it's it's now transitioning.
I think for the uh, the crowds gathered and everything
to just celebration mode. It feels quite a bit like
(31:43):
our team collectively has won the super Bowl or the
Stanley Cup or you know, pick your trophy, pick your
your sports moment, and everyone's in a great mood and
it's going to be a phenomenal night out there on
the town.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It should be, and uh, we expect that the next
several days you're gonna want to make sure that you're
listening because I think the rapidity with which the Trump
team is going to move to put their plans in
place is going to mean that any moment on the show,
we're gonna have something that probably you're gonna agree with.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You know, the Trump is being done, are already making
their way through security at the White House. I saw
now they're taking their offices, taking their positions, and moving
like they have urgency, which is exactly what we want to.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
See and you may need to have some urgency in
your life. I bet tomorrow morning we're gonna need some
Crocket coffee. We haven't mentioned it all during the day,
but maybe maybe you're gonna have a little bit too
much to drink to celebrate tonight. Maybe you have had
a fun weekend of activities. I know that I'm gonna
be loading up because you got a super early morning fun.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's definitely gonna be drinking. We did bring to our Georgia,
to our DC abode. We did bring some Crocket coffee
with us to make sure that we're ready to go.
So go to Crocketcoffee dot com. I think we could
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wives and we're gonna be you know, rubbin elbows with
the maga faithful people just coming into town on the
(33:45):
streets all the way up to I'm sure we'll see
some of the big names that will be a part
of this administration and giving them high fives and talk
to them about how, you know, you just got to
save the country, save the Western world, maybe save the planet.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
You know, no big deal, no big no big challenge, sports, business,
culture all aligning. It seems like a silly thing. But
YMCA showing up and singing YMCA for the village people
singing YMCA, it really does, I think, indicate that the
opposition is basically vanished and that we are headed for
(34:21):
what I hope is a new golden age.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
It's gonna be absolutely fantastic. And I got to tell you,
you know, Clay, we had to be we had to
keep the faith we had. And I say we, I
mean you me. We started this together, this show together
and the sacred trust of this audience placed in us
during the Biden administration. Okay, we all had to just
(34:46):
you know, just dig deep and bear it and deal
with it and the whole thing. It is really exciting
to be sitting here and looking forward to doing years
more of this show in a Trump era where we
get to have our team on offense in all the
best ways. We've really had to play defense up until
certainly this election cycle, where Trump was able to make
(35:09):
the case right. It has been trying to bring the
truth to people, trying to slow down the destructive Democrat machine. Well,
now the cavalry has come over the hill and the
good guys have won the day, and there's, like I said,
a sense of urgency from the Trump team, and I
think from all of these folks, all of these individuals
(35:32):
who have a tremendous it's a tremendous honor. It is
also a tremendous obligation. It is something that they have
to see through here. The American people are counting on them.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
No doubt, and I am excited. This is the very
first time we've had an opportunity to do a show
without having to worry about Joe Biden being in office,
and I know Rush would be excited. I know he
would be ecstatic.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
He's looked down smiling on today's festivities, no question about it,
for sure.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
And we are certainly glad to be able to Man
are we glad to be able to start to stack
some wins. We'll be hanging out with you. We're gonna
go check out the scene around the inaugural balls tonight,
and we hope that you guys have a great time.
Probably see some of you all over DC and we'll
be back right back with you.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And if you see someone take the stage by the
way with a turtleneck and a flute and it looks
like Clay, it might just be Clay. I'm putting that
out there.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
May have to bump Carrie Underwood off the stage and
break out my mad skills on the flute.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
By the way.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
No telling what AI is going to do with a
lot of the celebrations and the new Trump error, So
just keep your head on a swivel. You've got no
idea what's real, what's fake.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
And remember, if you see Lauren Sanchez, keep your eye eyes,
keep your eyes high
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