January 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Carrie Underwood sings “America the Beautiful” a cappella after a tech issue and invites the audience to join in. Biden’s preemptive pardons include Dr. Fauci, which is an admission of guilt. Will there still be a Covid reckoning?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome it, everybody to the Inauguration Day special edition of
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are live with you in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Just a few blocks away from our nation's capital, where
the swearing in of number forty seven Donald John Trump,
once again President of the United States, kicking us off
for what we.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Believe to be.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
An incredible four years ahead for this nation. He gave
a great speech. We'll give you some of those highlights
as well. A bunch of executive orders going to be
coming down shortly, will be signed up on the stage,
I believe here in the Capital One Arena, a big
sports arena that's going to be the site of a
(00:46):
Trump rally coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We have some.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Closing moves by the Biden regime, the former Oh Clay,
it's amazing. This is our first full hour of a
Trump presidency together on the show. We have had to
sit there together for three years of the Biden disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And it is over.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It feels good. It is morning in America. It is
a great time in so many ways. So we're gonna
make sense of all of this and talk to you
about some of the big moves today. But just one
moment in time, here to share together. Carrie Underwood we
all know from being a what platinum selling artist American
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Idol fame. I remember watching her when she was just
making her start on American Idol. She's she's a big
deal in music and country music specifically. She was to
lead everybody in God Bless America, and the audio went off,
and so she had to go a cappella and she
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just nailed it in what feels like a perfect start
in so many ways for this Trump presidency to ful
it was brave.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Let's listen to together for a.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Moment, ohby full for spacecious guys for a boo wave
of graining for perple, mountain Man sees above the fruit
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leading plan Onarica, Onerica, go shaps grets on.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Be andron My good Wade from Seed to Shine.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
See this.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Carrie Underwood has pipes, play turns out. She turns out.
She's a really good singer, but honestly way better.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I think that she on the fly, even though the
audio was all screwed up, was able to take that
and then lead everybody in the entire rotunda in a
unison sing along.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What an incredible moment.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I think you're going to be seeing that for years
and years to come as sort of an embodiment of
a revitalized American spirit. And you hit on this, and
I think it's really important. We're in DC right now,
we're just a couple of blocks away from the Capitol
and the Capitol One Arena where there's going to be
a rally later here in our iHeart studios. There is
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almost no resistance right now. We drove through the parade
of protesters a couple of days ago. Yeah, you and
I kind of felt sad for him. I mean, it
was cold, it was a little bit rainy. Even the
women in the vagina hats, they weren't even like the
vagina hats looked worn and old and decrepit. There wasn't
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a lot of enthusiasm. There's sort of one bedraggled person
beating on a drum, a few haphazard, listless chants surrounding that.
There is no opposition. And for those who were, let's
say just kind of middle of the road, let's say
you're not a particularly political person, but it's MLKDA and
it's the inauguration, and you watch that. I think if
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Trump takes the actions he promised, he's going to take
and in the wake of that, which will probably been
watched by I don't know, one hundred million people. I
think Trump is going to my prediction, within a couple
of weeks, the honeymoon is going to kick in, and
he's going to have the highest approval ratings substantially of
his political career.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Absolutely. I mean, he's already going into inauguration Day with
the most favorable numbers that he has ever had. You know, Clay,
I was actually just reading recently that when they ask
people and they go back to the incredibly successful and
consequential people, what is the most underrated characteristic that you
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can have to get you where you need to go?
You know what?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know what comes up a lot stamina, which is
really a combination of perseverance, endurance, all these things. The
stamina that Donald Trump had to have. It felt very
much like this reelection campaign started with the FBI raid
of his home at mar Lago, with the Democrat media
(05:36):
absolutely gleeful at the prospect of trying to send Donald
Trump to prison. They really, now, that feels almost like
a like a nightmare or something that's fading from our consciousness.
That was what they were trying to do and he
beat them at he beat them.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He got through all this, he thought through the ambush.
He did all this.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And to be here today, not only with him taking office,
but with the clearest field and the clearest vision to implement.
I think we have ever seen in certainly the Trump era,
but honestly in American politics. And I was actually I
went to I've been joking around about this because it
was freezing and a bit troubled here in DC. Then
(06:20):
I went to the black tie in boots Ball for
George W. Bush in two thousand and four. Let me
tell you that was a very different You know, yes,
Bush had won reelection, but you had the Iraq War,
you had Afghanistan, you had nine to eleven. You know,
the country perhaps had come together in many ways, but
politically Bush was starting to get on shake ear and
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shake your ground and anyway. You know, that was not
a moment of sort of glorious victory, even in the
same stratosphere as what it feels like we are seeing
right now with Donald Trump. And then you go to
eight years of Obama and then you have Trump twenty sixteen,
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which we talked about. This feels like the most complete
and total victory for a Republican, certainly in reelection, but
I would argue of any election in my adult lifetime,
I think you'd have to go back to Reagan, which
I was a little too young to really remember, for
it to feel like such a cultural and political and
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just across the board victory, mandate, and mission.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I think also to your point on twenty seventeen as
opposed to twenty five, I think you're going to hear
more and more people talk about on the left, boy,
we wish Trump had just taken office in twenty twenty.
He wouldn't have had anywhere near the same measure of power.
And I would say even comparing twenty seventeen and twenty
twenty five, as we get started here, remember in twenty seventeen,
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Mitch McConnell's Senate majority leader, Paul Ryan was the Speaker
of the House, and both of those individuals sort of
looked at Trump as a child they needed to manage.
He wasn't sophisticated in the ways of the swamp. He
hadn't actually learned a lot of what being a politician entails.
He had a lot of natural talent, but he hadn't
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necessarily sort of moved himself into the job and gotten
comfortable with it. Now you've got Mike Johnson, who basically
is Trump's chosen speaker, and you have Thun, who is
John Thune one hundred percent it would appear behind Trump
with the fifty three Senate majority. This is a Republican
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party that's ready to move, and they're ready to move aggressively. Look,
I think you can say if they can't get it
done now, they never are going to get anything done. Right,
we might as well just this is the most auspicious
beginning for a Republican administration in certainly my adult lifetime.
So we're going certainly in the twenty first century. Okay,
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we can go back. Multiple administrations haven't seen anything quite
like this, and we already know what some of these
big agenda items are. They are not wasting time. To
the point about the twenty seventeen versus twenty twenty five
comparison that we were just talking about, Clay, you know,
Trump was an outsider, didn't really know how some of
the machinery worked, didn't really have in place the first
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time around a trade you a member who was running
that transition, and it was a lot of build the
ship as you sail it. This time around, it's like
the battleship has already pulled into the harbor and they
are ready to go. It's a very different feel in
terms of that preparation and readiness to hit the ground.
I think Trump had a philosophy in twenty seventeen, I
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don't think he had an ability to implement the philosophy,
and I don't think he had the people surrounding him
with an ability to do it either. This feels completely different.
I think in the first few months we're going to
see a governmental shift the lacks of the likes of
which most of us have not seen in our lives.
And to your point, Buck, it might seem small, but
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Carrie Underwood singing a cappella. You had Elon Musk, you
had Jeff Bezos, you had Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple,
Sundar Pashai, I believe of Google, all of the big
tech executives. You had Logan and Jake Paul. I believe
Connor McGregor. A lot of the sports sort of universe
that came out for Trump, Unlike in twenty seventeen, when
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it felt like everyone in sports business and culture was
aligned with the resistance. Overnight the culture has become Trumpian
and now sports, business and culture is all to me
aligned moving in concert with Trump. And again I come
back to seeing those poor bedraggled protesters that didn't have
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any real measure of support. Even the media is not
coming after Trump like they did before. I think it
is a different world. It is a brand new universe.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Imagine, Clay, if you could indulge me here for a second.
Imagine we were to go joy riding in the wreckage
of communist souls here for a second. Given this election,
looking into the mindset of somebody who really believed that
Jack Smith was going to lock up Trump, who really
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believed that the system arrayed against Trump was guaranteed to
stop this moment from happening because they were told and
they believed that fascism was descending upon America and that
it would be the end of democracy. Remember, even in
the midterm, they ran on threats to democracy. That was
their prime The threat to democracy was the primary talking
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point of Democrats all across the land. The entire machine,
not the fringe, that was the centerpiece of the Democrats' campaign.
And now you're one of those people out there on
the street with the one of the funky hats on
or banging the drumma or whatever. They have been entirely
misled and trade by their own side. All of those
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people on MSNBC and CNN, they were lying to them.
They were lying to them that Trump couldn't win. They
were lying to them that Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Was a fascist. They are broken.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Now we're going to get into this too, adding onto that,
which I think is very true. How about we were
all told, oh, Trump's going to pardon his entire family
because of all the crimes they've committed, And actually what
ended up happening was Biden pardoned Hunter and his five
brothers and sisters on the way out the door, the
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Biden crime family. Everything they told you that Trump was
going to do to destroy and challenge freedom and democracy,
Biden actually did. And so I think there not only
is an incredible weakness associated with the way Biden finished
his tenure, I think many in the media are unable
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and unwilling because of how morally bankrupt Biden became to
even take aims at Trump over what is likely to
be a lot of part in action today. And we're
going to update you as the data as released, as
the stories are updated about exactly what Trump ends up
doing today just up the street, across the street basically
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from us at Capitol One Arena, as we are rolling
through a very exciting Monday edition of the program, and
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Speaker 5 (15:26):
Welcome back in. Joe Biden has left Washington, DC. He
has gotten on the helicopter. He has done. He has finished.
Good riddance to the worst president in my opinion, in
any of our lives. And Trump is speaking right now,
continuing to speak. I believe buck with the media. Let's
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go live and hear what he's saying.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
The line of succession didn't work that way, right, But
now she's great and he's great. This is a great,
beautiful couple and unbelievable career. I just said to him,
you are very upwardly mobile, because he hasn't been doing
it that long, but he picked it up so quickly.
Remember the first week was a little bit like the
fake news was hitting him really hard, and I said, oh,
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this may be tough. But after that it was smooth
selling for him. He took on everybody. He took on
the meanest. I don't want to use the word corrupt
because we're into a news system, so let's wait till
the corruption begins, because it will. But he took on
some pretty mean.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
People and he handled it well.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job
that he's doing.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Stue.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
We gave him a majority of almost nothing, and then
I said, to make it tougher on him, let me
take two or three of the people, right, I said,
he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months.
How are they doing, by the way, are they? Is
that moving along? I said, do you mind if I
take this one, that one and a couple of others?
It's he didn't mind he get handed. No, He's a
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man that's liked by everybody. I've never met a man
like this. You've got two how much is it two
nineteen or two twenty or two twenty? And of the
two twenty two nineteen really like him. I noticed he
got one negative vote once about two weeks ago, But
I think even two twenty like him, if you want
to know the truth. And that's very unusual. I know
a lot of nice guys in Congress, and they have
thirty five people that hate him. So you have thirty
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five people that hate you and you only have one
or two or three votes.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You'll have five, I think. But that's that's going to be.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Like, you know, the good news is when we get
to that five number, it's going to feel like a
massive majority. You could be really nasty to a couple
of them, A laced so it's going to feel like
kidding your head on the wall and stopping. It feels
so good to stop. But he's done a fantastic job.
And Steve Scalise is uh, he's our hero because you
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know I was with him.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A very much.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You've round a ball there for Steve Scalise. We all
remember what happened to him on that baseball field. A
great member of Congress and the patriot President Trump speaking there.
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welcome back in here Inauguration Day coverage with Clay and
Buck live here in DC. A fantastic speech, a great
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day for America, tremendous Ebullian's optimism effort vessence.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I don't know you throw your words.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Of positivity out there because they all apply right now.
But I actually Clay wanted to just take a moment
to address something that is one of the issues that
President Trump talked about, some of the policy stuff that
it entails, and also in some ways the beginnings of
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justice that we have been waiting for for years now,
for all of Biden's term four years which is now
over former President Biden, and that has to do with
COVID because Fauci received a preemptive part. Think about that,
the first health bureaucrat, I would assume in American history
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to need a federal pardon from the President himse for
what he apparently did in office.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Right, this is the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So you have, on the one hand, the obvious, uh,
you know, covering of Fauci's rear going on with this
while simultaneously saying that people fired from government service from
the military for refusing the COVID shot, which was an
appalling tyrannical overreach of government, unconstitutional, unscientific, too completely pointless.
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There's no reason to make people get this shot at all,
uh in the federal service, that he's going to reinstate
them with back pay. I I just I know that
there's so many other things on the border and a
million things going on, but for me, it feels particularly
sweet that this is finally happening, that there's some reckoning
underway for what Biden did with COVID.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Well, let me also point this out because I think
it's really significant of the pardons that Biden gave, including
it runs all the way back to twenty fourteen. Now
two different angles there. One on Fauci. This is basically
an indication that he committed crimes because that goes all
the way back to the gain of function research, which
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Ran Paul has been on Senator from Kentucky talking about
us a great deal that issue.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Buck.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
They're protecting not only what he did during COVID, but
the fact that he was involved in giving American taxpayer
dollars to China lied about it. It goes all the
way back to fourteen, six years before most of us
had ever thought about COVID. I think that's significant too.
He pardoned all his family members, five brothers and sisters,
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Hunter Biden. All of the pardons extend to twenty fourteen.
Why twenty fourteen, that's when Joe Biden found out that
Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee going forward,
that basically Barack Obama was going to deputize her with
his endorsement. And when that occurred, that's when the Biden
family money Spiggott really got turned on. Because remember Biden
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never thought that he was gonna have any further political career.
He thought in twenty fourteen, when Hillary Clinton was the choice,
he thought, hey, she's gonna win, she's gonna run again
in twenty Good. My career's over thought. He could sell
himself at whatever price he could get and there'd be
no consequences in a million.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That's here exactly right.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So it's really significant and I don't know how many
people are going to jump in on this. For both
Fauci and for his family, it's not just a pardon
for time when he was in office. It's a part
in going all the way back to before he even
announced he was ever running for president, when the money
spigot got turned on, when the gain of function started. Also,
I don't think we can overlook the jan six All
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of the people who spread the Jan six lies, the
lisz Cheney's of the world, the Benny Thompson's of the world,
they're all getting preemptive pardons as well. If you did
nothing wrong. I don't need a preemptive pardon. I don't
need Donald Trump when he leaves office in twenty twenty
nine to suddenly in the last minute be like, hey
Clay Travis, going all the way back to his entire
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media careers. Clear, I've never done anything wrong. If you don't,
didn't think ever done anything illegal?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Legal?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, well, I've been hanging out with you, you know, our lives,
both of us last few days. You know we're not perfect,
but we've never done anything illegal.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
The idea that you would get a preemptive pardon is
basically an endorsement of the fact that you did something inappropriate.
And let me say this too, you want COVID reckoning.
I know we got a lot of people in the states.
These are federal pardons. Florida has a grand jury that
they opened into Fauci. If I were a governor of
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a state like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, red state, I would
seriously be talking about the idea of bringing state charges
against Fauci for his actions different than federal. He's not
protected there. Maybe there's never any consequences, but I still
think the full reckoning has not occurred, and they're trying
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to protect it to some degree from happening.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Also funny to see some of the Democrat hatchet men
and hatchet women, so to speak, bemoaning that they did
not receive a preemptive pardon. There's a whole list of people,
and some have come out publicly already to say, just
so you know, I was never offered one, and if
they come after me or my family and this whole thing.
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I also have to wonder, though, what exactly was the
charge that they thought that someone like Liz Cheney could
even find herself on the wrong side of this is
You can't have a president of the United States signing
a pardon for you without at least having a notion
of what crime may have been committed that you need
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to be pardoned from, right. I mean, this is I
think there are real questions about whether preemptive pardons are
even legal. Can you just say, hey, you can't charge
anybody with any crime. Usually pardons in the.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Traditional sense is for people who have been you know
what the or no, what's well, it's not necessarily convinced.
Like Mark Rich for example, under Clinton, Uh, he was
facing charges. I don't think he was convicted. He fled,
so he fled justice and then was part Usually we
know either your you've had charges, to the charges or
out there or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
How can you pardon somebody without knowing what your pardoning is? Right?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And this is what I'm getting to So what what
what they should have to tell us?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hey, we think Liz Cheney may be.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Liable for the following federal statutory and fractions, and we're
wiping it away to just give I mean, this is
just a get out of jail free cards straight up,
without us even knowing what she's getting out of jail for.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And by the way, she may have committed crimes that
we don't even know, like and I'm just tossing this
out there. What if Liz Cheney has killed four people
like I in in in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He's really going for it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
But let's say she had then a preemptive pardon in
theory which does not specify what she's being pardoned for.
It would take something like a prosecution for murder if
she's off the tape.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Whatever that I forget what the timing is for her thing.
But if she had, let's say, committed just federal tax fraud,
clearly clean, clear can't do it, can't do anything whatsoever.
But for the here's the part of it too. That's
that's such a whiplash, And for people who have been
observing this and for all of you who have been
with us on this wild ride of Biden madness and
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really the mass delusion of the Biden years really kicking
off with the way they handled COVID and then everything
else that was going on, and the anti trump ism
and he's a fascist and he's a racist, all of
these things, Clay. They they ran yes on Trump as
a threat to democracy, which is amazing because here we
are celebrating the peaceful transfer of power, and there's such
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a sense of happiness descending on certainly half the country
across this land, and I think it's considerably more than
half the country. But that was one piece of it.
The other piece, though, was that they were the rule
of law people. Yeah, that Biden was an honorable, honest
guy you could trust to have a normal presidency, normalcy
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returning to the system, and he is. Now this is
not a matter of dispute. It is a matter of fact.
He is the first president to preemptively pardon immediate family
members on the way out of Donald Trump didn't do
that when he left office. They said he was, They
said he was going to do it. He did not
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do it. Joe Biden did it. Mister, I'm normalcy, Mister,
I'm the guy who's going to bring things back to
the way that they've always been.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
He was.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was a lie that he was a uniter. It
was a lie that he was about the rule of law,
and it was a lie that his brain wasn't scrambled eggs.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Essentially. But as we know, perhaps the biggest of all.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
The lies actions already underway on an exact executive level
as Trump is back in the White House.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We'll talk about this when we come back. Buck.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
He's ended the CBP one app, which was basically a
speaking of get out at jelfree kind of a you're
able to come in and be granted asylum on the phone.
And there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
people who took advantage of that. That is gone, So
again CBP one app. We'll talk about it when we
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come back. Trump officially President of the United States, hallelujah, hallelujah.
And one of the things I'm told that he's going
to do tonight buck is continue to focus on bringing
back all of the Israeli hostages, including potentially having some
of the hostages on stage with him in the Capitol
one former hostages that have been returned to continue to
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put pressure on everybody else.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Can I ask you a question, really, yeah, what is
your favorite executive order so far, either either in place
or about to be? Because we've been told a lot
of what what do.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
You think is I think the most significant and con
sequential is the ending of birthright citizenship. I have to
agree with that, yeah, and now it's going to be
in court for years. But when Trump started talking about
that in twenty fifteen, it was like the third rail.
You couldn't even mention it. Aloud without people losing their mind.
And now really the courts are going to have to
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analyze this going forward, does it or does it not exist? Again,
we're talking about right of soil citizenship, like you're just
in a country as opposed to your parents.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Being said, it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Seems so straightforward if you just forget about all the
legal lees for a second, just think it through. How
could it be that the government of the United States
rewards people for breaking the law? Yeah, how could that
make sense? How could that be what the founders? How
could that be what Congress intends? It's crazy time. It's
(29:51):
not something that makes any sense. So this is why,
once again, the foundation of so much of this return
of Trump is a return of common sense in policy,
in the executive branch and in governance.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yeah, and again one of the things that Trump said
was they're going to be held to pay if these
hostages are not back, and they're continuing to focus on them.
And look, this is one reason why Trump has been
so consequential. All of you and how you voted has
already made a difference. Three hostages returned in Israel. There
right now is a ceasefire in place, and we hope
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that by January twenty seventh, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day,
even more of these individuals who've been held hostage for
nearly five hundred days are going to be back. And
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in the October seventh tear attack twenty twenty three in Israel,
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Two guys walk up to a mic Hey, anything goes
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Speaker 5 (31:39):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Just a huge celebration
in the streets of Washington, DC. There are tons of
Trump voters that have made their trip to Washington, DC
to celebrate the change in power and how everything is
(32:00):
is changing instantaneously, including we just told you the CBP
one app and I wanted to make sure that I
mentioned that because it has been a pathway that Biden
has allowed millions of illegals into the country bypassing our border.
As soon as Trump took office, boom, it has changed.
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You can no longer use that app. He is securing
the border. Also, if you want a good smile, they
took over instantaneously white House dot gov and there's some
pretty fantastic Trump videos up there, Buck the official page
of the White House.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Now, I know that that's just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It's funny and it's dunking on the departed Biden staffers
and everything in a sense, but it is also indicative,
I think, Clay, of how this new team is. It
is like they have a giant in book. They have
opened it up, and they have hit the the execute button,
you know what I mean, Like time to go, time
to implement the plan.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Let's make this happened.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
You know, one thing I loved about the speech, and
I thought it was one of the best, if not
the best speeches that Trump has given. You like this
the fact that it was organized, structured, and didn't run long, right,
I mean, it was something that was very sort of
buttoned up, especially for a Trump speech.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Long speech too long always takes away from the speech.
It was perfectly timed.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I thought he didn't even mention Biden or Kamala. To
my knowledge listening to it, I didn't hear him mention
him at all. And yet he was systemically laying out
that he was going to essentially do away with everything
that they had done for the past four years. And
it was certainly a powerful moment to watch Biden flying
(33:41):
away and recognize that we've taken back control of the government.
And I think it's so important that we have a
unified Republican House, Senate, and White House. And they are
hitting the ground running, and the expectation is that in
a little over an hour Trump is going to go
into the Capitol One Arena. That's where the NBA and
(34:04):
NHL teams play here in Washington, DC, and around twenty
thousand people, it is absolutely swarmed, slammed, every seat filled.
There is a mini desk, remember that little mini desk
that Biden would use back in the day. There is
a desk set up on the stage there. And the
expectation is that when they sit down, they are going
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to be signing many of these executive orders right there
in front of all of you. I'm sure to be
carried on Fox News. We may well carry it with
the Sean Hannity Show going forward. And there's just a
lot of momentum that is already underway. And as you said,
(34:44):
this is the greatest political comeback, and we told you
this on November sixth, and we came on, We've never
seen anything like this to go from think about where
we were four years ago. Biden's coming into office. He's
immediately trying to overturn all the border security, so much
of what Donald Trump worked hard to put in place.
They're having that weird socially distanced in inauguration where everybody's
(35:08):
in masks and now boom, here we are. Trump is
at his most descendant, at his most powerful, culminating the
greatest political comeback I think in American history. And we're
just getting started. But I said, you were walking on
the streets buck, I said, I wish, as sort of
a history nerd, I could look one hundred or two
hundred years into the future, this be covered well, and
(35:29):
how this whole campaign and everything is going to be covered.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
A lot of it will be determined by the next
four years. And I would argue a lot of that
will be determined, or rather the one hundred year overview
of Trump two point zero, the second term of Trump
Trump forty seven is going to be out to the
next eighteen months ago. Because this is he can take
out the steamroller right now and get it done and
(35:53):
change things and make big moves, and it's all there
for him. It is all in front of us. This
is not an over promise or an exaggeration. This is
a Trump presidency that can be consequential and can be
defining for years, perhaps decades, perhaps this twenty first century America. Okay,
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there are huge things that can get done here, and
I just hope that we can keep the help keep
them on task, on mission.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But it really is a great day.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I mean, this is the most joyous inauguration from just
talking to everybody and the party faithful, the most joyous
inauguration I think we've ever witnessed for a Republican president.
Again in living memory. Some of you might say, well
Reagan as well, But it's incredible down here, folks in DC.
We'll come back with more here in the third hour,
(36:45):
bring you observations from the street level, and also from
the policies that are coming down to the executive orders
and whatever place got going for us.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
A lot of things that
Welcome it, everybody to the Inauguration Day special edition of
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
We are live with you in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Just a few blocks away from our nation's capital, where
the swearing in of number forty seven Donald John Trump,
once again President of the United States, kicking us off
for what we.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Believe to be.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
An incredible four years ahead for this nation. He gave
a great speech. We'll give you some of those highlights
as well. A bunch of executive orders going to be
coming down shortly, will be signed up on the stage,
I believe here in the Capital One Arena, a big
sports arena that's going to be the site of a
(00:46):
Trump rally coming up momentarily.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
We have some.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Closing moves by the Biden regime, the former Oh Clay,
it's amazing. This is our first full hour of a
Trump presidency together on the show. We have had to
sit there together for three years of the Biden disaster.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And it is over.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It feels good. It is morning in America. It is
a great time in so many ways. So we're gonna
make sense of all of this and talk to you
about some of the big moves today. But just one
moment in time, here to share together. Carrie Underwood we
all know from being a what platinum selling artist American
(01:32):
Idol fame. I remember watching her when she was just
making her start on American Idol. She's she's a big
deal in music and country music specifically. She was to
lead everybody in God Bless America, and the audio went off,
and so she had to go a cappella and she
(01:53):
just nailed it in what feels like a perfect start
in so many ways for this Trump presidency to ful
it was brave.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Let's listen to together for a.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Moment, ohby full for spacecious guys for a boo wave
of graining for perple, mountain Man sees above the fruit
(02:27):
leading plan Onarica, Onerica, go shaps grets on.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Be andron My good Wade from Seed to Shine.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
See this.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Carrie Underwood has pipes, play turns out. She turns out.
She's a really good singer, but honestly way better.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I think that she on the fly, even though the
audio was all screwed up, was able to take that
and then lead everybody in the entire rotunda in a
unison sing along.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
What an incredible moment.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I think you're going to be seeing that for years
and years to come as sort of an embodiment of
a revitalized American spirit. And you hit on this, and
I think it's really important. We're in DC right now,
we're just a couple of blocks away from the Capitol
and the Capitol One Arena where there's going to be
a rally later here in our iHeart studios. There is
(03:46):
almost no resistance right now. We drove through the parade
of protesters a couple of days ago. Yeah, you and
I kind of felt sad for him. I mean, it
was cold, it was a little bit rainy. Even the
women in the vagina hats, they weren't even like the
vagina hats looked worn and old and decrepit. There wasn't
(04:07):
a lot of enthusiasm. There's sort of one bedraggled person
beating on a drum, a few haphazard, listless chants surrounding that.
There is no opposition. And for those who were, let's
say just kind of middle of the road, let's say
you're not a particularly political person, but it's MLKDA and
it's the inauguration, and you watch that. I think if
(04:28):
Trump takes the actions he promised, he's going to take
and in the wake of that, which will probably been
watched by I don't know, one hundred million people. I
think Trump is going to my prediction, within a couple
of weeks, the honeymoon is going to kick in, and
he's going to have the highest approval ratings substantially of
his political career.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Absolutely. I mean, he's already going into inauguration Day with
the most favorable numbers that he has ever had. You know, Clay,
I was actually just reading recently that when they ask
people and they go back to the incredibly successful and
consequential people, what is the most underrated characteristic that you
(05:11):
can have to get you where you need to go?
You know what?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know what comes up a lot stamina, which is
really a combination of perseverance, endurance, all these things. The
stamina that Donald Trump had to have. It felt very
much like this reelection campaign started with the FBI raid
of his home at mar Lago, with the Democrat media
(05:36):
absolutely gleeful at the prospect of trying to send Donald
Trump to prison. They really, now, that feels almost like
a like a nightmare or something that's fading from our consciousness.
That was what they were trying to do and he
beat them at he beat them.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He got through all this, he thought through the ambush.
He did all this.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And to be here today, not only with him taking office,
but with the clearest field and the clearest vision to implement.
I think we have ever seen in certainly the Trump era,
but honestly in American politics. And I was actually I
went to I've been joking around about this because it
was freezing and a bit troubled here in DC. Then
(06:20):
I went to the black tie in boots Ball for
George W. Bush in two thousand and four. Let me
tell you that was a very different You know, yes,
Bush had won reelection, but you had the Iraq War,
you had Afghanistan, you had nine to eleven. You know,
the country perhaps had come together in many ways, but
politically Bush was starting to get on shake ear and
(06:40):
shake your ground and anyway. You know, that was not
a moment of sort of glorious victory, even in the
same stratosphere as what it feels like we are seeing
right now with Donald Trump. And then you go to
eight years of Obama and then you have Trump twenty sixteen,
(07:01):
which we talked about. This feels like the most complete
and total victory for a Republican, certainly in reelection, but
I would argue of any election in my adult lifetime,
I think you'd have to go back to Reagan, which
I was a little too young to really remember, for
it to feel like such a cultural and political and
(07:23):
just across the board victory, mandate, and mission.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I think also to your point on twenty seventeen as
opposed to twenty five, I think you're going to hear
more and more people talk about on the left, boy,
we wish Trump had just taken office in twenty twenty.
He wouldn't have had anywhere near the same measure of power.
And I would say even comparing twenty seventeen and twenty
twenty five, as we get started here, remember in twenty seventeen,
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Mitch McConnell's Senate majority leader, Paul Ryan was the Speaker
of the House, and both of those individuals sort of
looked at Trump as a child they needed to manage.
He wasn't sophisticated in the ways of the swamp. He
hadn't actually learned a lot of what being a politician entails.
He had a lot of natural talent, but he hadn't
(08:11):
necessarily sort of moved himself into the job and gotten
comfortable with it. Now you've got Mike Johnson, who basically
is Trump's chosen speaker, and you have Thun, who is
John Thune one hundred percent it would appear behind Trump
with the fifty three Senate majority. This is a Republican
(08:32):
party that's ready to move, and they're ready to move aggressively. Look,
I think you can say if they can't get it
done now, they never are going to get anything done. Right,
we might as well just this is the most auspicious
beginning for a Republican administration in certainly my adult lifetime.
So we're going certainly in the twenty first century. Okay,
(08:54):
we can go back. Multiple administrations haven't seen anything quite
like this, and we already know what some of these
big agenda items are. They are not wasting time. To
the point about the twenty seventeen versus twenty twenty five
comparison that we were just talking about, Clay, you know,
Trump was an outsider, didn't really know how some of
the machinery worked, didn't really have in place the first
(09:18):
time around a trade you a member who was running
that transition, and it was a lot of build the
ship as you sail it. This time around, it's like
the battleship has already pulled into the harbor and they
are ready to go. It's a very different feel in
terms of that preparation and readiness to hit the ground.
I think Trump had a philosophy in twenty seventeen, I
(09:40):
don't think he had an ability to implement the philosophy,
and I don't think he had the people surrounding him
with an ability to do it either. This feels completely different.
I think in the first few months we're going to
see a governmental shift the lacks of the likes of
which most of us have not seen in our lives.
And to your point, Buck, it might seem small, but
(10:02):
Carrie Underwood singing a cappella. You had Elon Musk, you
had Jeff Bezos, you had Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple,
Sundar Pashai, I believe of Google, all of the big
tech executives. You had Logan and Jake Paul. I believe
Connor McGregor. A lot of the sports sort of universe
that came out for Trump, Unlike in twenty seventeen, when
(10:25):
it felt like everyone in sports business and culture was
aligned with the resistance. Overnight the culture has become Trumpian
and now sports, business and culture is all to me
aligned moving in concert with Trump. And again I come
back to seeing those poor bedraggled protesters that didn't have
(10:45):
any real measure of support. Even the media is not
coming after Trump like they did before. I think it
is a different world. It is a brand new universe.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Imagine, Clay, if you could indulge me here for a second.
Imagine we were to go joy riding in the wreckage
of communist souls here for a second. Given this election,
looking into the mindset of somebody who really believed that
Jack Smith was going to lock up Trump, who really
(11:18):
believed that the system arrayed against Trump was guaranteed to
stop this moment from happening because they were told and
they believed that fascism was descending upon America and that
it would be the end of democracy. Remember, even in
the midterm, they ran on threats to democracy. That was
their prime The threat to democracy was the primary talking
(11:41):
point of Democrats all across the land. The entire machine,
not the fringe, that was the centerpiece of the Democrats' campaign.
And now you're one of those people out there on
the street with the one of the funky hats on
or banging the drumma or whatever. They have been entirely
misled and trade by their own side. All of those
(12:03):
people on MSNBC and CNN, they were lying to them.
They were lying to them that Trump couldn't win. They
were lying to them that Trump.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Was a fascist. They are broken.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Now we're going to get into this too, adding onto that,
which I think is very true. How about we were
all told, oh, Trump's going to pardon his entire family
because of all the crimes they've committed, And actually what
ended up happening was Biden pardoned Hunter and his five
brothers and sisters on the way out the door, the
(12:34):
Biden crime family. Everything they told you that Trump was
going to do to destroy and challenge freedom and democracy,
Biden actually did. And so I think there not only
is an incredible weakness associated with the way Biden finished
his tenure, I think many in the media are unable
(12:57):
and unwilling because of how morally bankrupt Biden became to
even take aims at Trump over what is likely to
be a lot of part in action today. And we're
going to update you as the data as released, as
the stories are updated about exactly what Trump ends up
doing today just up the street, across the street basically
(13:20):
from us at Capitol One Arena, as we are rolling
through a very exciting Monday edition of the program, and
I have to say, buck, unfortunately, and I hate that
this happened. Right now, we ended up losing on our
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Speaker 2 (13:36):
Now, I'm just gonna throw this out there.
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We were right on Lamar Jackson more on the passing
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Welcome back in. Joe Biden has left Washington, DC. He
has gotten on the helicopter. He has done. He has finished.
Good riddance to the worst president in my opinion, in
any of our lives. And Trump is speaking right now,
continuing to speak. I believe buck with the media. Let's
(15:46):
go live and hear what he's saying.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
The line of succession didn't work that way, right, But
now she's great and he's great. This is a great,
beautiful couple and unbelievable career. I just said to him,
you are very upwardly mobile, because he hasn't been doing
it that long, but he picked it up so quickly.
Remember the first week was a little bit like the
fake news was hitting him really hard, and I said, oh,
(16:11):
this may be tough. But after that it was smooth
selling for him. He took on everybody. He took on
the meanest. I don't want to use the word corrupt
because we're into a news system, so let's wait till
the corruption begins, because it will. But he took on
some pretty mean.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
People and he handled it well.
Speaker 7 (16:30):
I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job
that he's doing.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Stue.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
We gave him a majority of almost nothing, and then
I said, to make it tougher on him, let me
take two or three of the people, right, I said,
he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months.
How are they doing, by the way, are they? Is
that moving along? I said, do you mind if I
take this one, that one and a couple of others?
It's he didn't mind he get handed. No, He's a
(17:02):
man that's liked by everybody. I've never met a man
like this. You've got two how much is it two
nineteen or two twenty or two twenty? And of the
two twenty two nineteen really like him. I noticed he
got one negative vote once about two weeks ago, But
I think even two twenty like him, if you want
to know the truth. And that's very unusual. I know
a lot of nice guys in Congress, and they have
thirty five people that hate him. So you have thirty
(17:24):
five people that hate you and you only have one
or two or three votes.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
You'll have five, I think. But that's that's going to be.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Like, you know, the good news is when we get
to that five number, it's going to feel like a
massive majority. You could be really nasty to a couple
of them, A laced so it's going to feel like
kidding your head on the wall and stopping. It feels
so good to stop. But he's done a fantastic job.
And Steve Scalise is uh, he's our hero because you
(17:51):
know I was with him.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
A very much.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You've round a ball there for Steve Scalise. We all
remember what happened to him on that baseball field. A
great member of Congress and the patriot President Trump speaking there.
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welcome back in here Inauguration Day coverage with Clay and
Buck live here in DC. A fantastic speech, a great
(19:01):
day for America, tremendous Ebullian's optimism effort vessence.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I don't know you throw your words.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Of positivity out there because they all apply right now.
But I actually Clay wanted to just take a moment
to address something that is one of the issues that
President Trump talked about, some of the policy stuff that
it entails, and also in some ways the beginnings of
(19:33):
justice that we have been waiting for for years now,
for all of Biden's term four years which is now
over former President Biden, and that has to do with
COVID because Fauci received a preemptive part. Think about that,
the first health bureaucrat, I would assume in American history
(19:55):
to need a federal pardon from the President himse for
what he apparently did in office.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Right, this is the first time.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So you have, on the one hand, the obvious, uh,
you know, covering of Fauci's rear going on with this
while simultaneously saying that people fired from government service from
the military for refusing the COVID shot, which was an
appalling tyrannical overreach of government, unconstitutional, unscientific, too completely pointless.
(20:32):
There's no reason to make people get this shot at all,
uh in the federal service, that he's going to reinstate
them with back pay. I I just I know that
there's so many other things on the border and a
million things going on, but for me, it feels particularly
sweet that this is finally happening, that there's some reckoning
underway for what Biden did with COVID.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Well, let me also point this out because I think
it's really significant of the pardons that Biden gave, including
it runs all the way back to twenty fourteen. Now
two different angles there. One on Fauci. This is basically
an indication that he committed crimes because that goes all
the way back to the gain of function research, which
(21:16):
Ran Paul has been on Senator from Kentucky talking about
us a great deal that issue.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Buck.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
They're protecting not only what he did during COVID, but
the fact that he was involved in giving American taxpayer
dollars to China lied about it. It goes all the
way back to fourteen, six years before most of us
had ever thought about COVID. I think that's significant too.
He pardoned all his family members, five brothers and sisters,
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Hunter Biden. All of the pardons extend to twenty fourteen.
Why twenty fourteen, that's when Joe Biden found out that
Hillary Clinton was going to be the nominee going forward,
that basically Barack Obama was going to deputize her with
his endorsement. And when that occurred, that's when the Biden
family money Spiggott really got turned on. Because remember Biden
(22:06):
never thought that he was gonna have any further political career.
He thought in twenty fourteen, when Hillary Clinton was the choice,
he thought, hey, she's gonna win, she's gonna run again
in twenty Good. My career's over thought. He could sell
himself at whatever price he could get and there'd be
no consequences in a million.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
That's here exactly right.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So it's really significant and I don't know how many
people are going to jump in on this. For both
Fauci and for his family, it's not just a pardon
for time when he was in office. It's a part
in going all the way back to before he even
announced he was ever running for president, when the money
spigot got turned on, when the gain of function started. Also,
I don't think we can overlook the jan six All
(22:49):
of the people who spread the Jan six lies, the
lisz Cheney's of the world, the Benny Thompson's of the world,
they're all getting preemptive pardons as well. If you did
nothing wrong. I don't need a preemptive pardon. I don't
need Donald Trump when he leaves office in twenty twenty
nine to suddenly in the last minute be like, hey
Clay Travis, going all the way back to his entire
(23:10):
media careers. Clear, I've never done anything wrong. If you don't,
didn't think ever done anything illegal?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Legal?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Yeah, well, I've been hanging out with you, you know, our lives,
both of us last few days. You know we're not perfect,
but we've never done anything illegal.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
The idea that you would get a preemptive pardon is
basically an endorsement of the fact that you did something inappropriate.
And let me say this too, you want COVID reckoning.
I know we got a lot of people in the states.
These are federal pardons. Florida has a grand jury that
they opened into Fauci. If I were a governor of
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a state like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, red state, I would
seriously be talking about the idea of bringing state charges
against Fauci for his actions different than federal. He's not
protected there. Maybe there's never any consequences, but I still
think the full reckoning has not occurred, and they're trying
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to protect it to some degree from happening.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Also funny to see some of the Democrat hatchet men
and hatchet women, so to speak, bemoaning that they did
not receive a preemptive pardon. There's a whole list of people,
and some have come out publicly already to say, just
so you know, I was never offered one, and if
they come after me or my family and this whole thing.
(24:28):
I also have to wonder, though, what exactly was the
charge that they thought that someone like Liz Cheney could
even find herself on the wrong side of this is
You can't have a president of the United States signing
a pardon for you without at least having a notion
of what crime may have been committed that you need
(24:50):
to be pardoned from, right. I mean, this is I
think there are real questions about whether preemptive pardons are
even legal. Can you just say, hey, you can't charge
anybody with any crime. Usually pardons in the.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Traditional sense is for people who have been you know
what the or no, what's well, it's not necessarily convinced.
Like Mark Rich for example, under Clinton, Uh, he was
facing charges. I don't think he was convicted. He fled,
so he fled justice and then was part Usually we
know either your you've had charges, to the charges or
out there or whatever else.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
How can you pardon somebody without knowing what your pardoning is? Right?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
And this is what I'm getting to So what what
what they should have to tell us?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Hey, we think Liz Cheney may be.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Liable for the following federal statutory and fractions, and we're
wiping it away to just give I mean, this is
just a get out of jail free cards straight up,
without us even knowing what she's getting out of jail for.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And by the way, she may have committed crimes that
we don't even know, like and I'm just tossing this
out there. What if Liz Cheney has killed four people
like I in in in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
He's really going for it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
But let's say she had then a preemptive pardon in
theory which does not specify what she's being pardoned for.
It would take something like a prosecution for murder if
she's off the tape.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Whatever that I forget what the timing is for her thing.
But if she had, let's say, committed just federal tax fraud,
clearly clean, clear can't do it, can't do anything whatsoever.
But for the here's the part of it too. That's
that's such a whiplash, And for people who have been
observing this and for all of you who have been
with us on this wild ride of Biden madness and
(26:30):
really the mass delusion of the Biden years really kicking
off with the way they handled COVID and then everything
else that was going on, and the anti trump ism
and he's a fascist and he's a racist, all of
these things, Clay. They they ran yes on Trump as
a threat to democracy, which is amazing because here we
are celebrating the peaceful transfer of power, and there's such
(26:51):
a sense of happiness descending on certainly half the country
across this land, and I think it's considerably more than
half the country. But that was one piece of it.
The other piece, though, was that they were the rule
of law people. Yeah, that Biden was an honorable, honest
guy you could trust to have a normal presidency, normalcy
(27:15):
returning to the system, and he is. Now this is
not a matter of dispute. It is a matter of fact.
He is the first president to preemptively pardon immediate family
members on the way out of Donald Trump didn't do
that when he left office. They said he was, They
said he was going to do it. He did not
(27:35):
do it. Joe Biden did it. Mister, I'm normalcy, Mister,
I'm the guy who's going to bring things back to
the way that they've always been.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
He was.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
It was a lie that he was a uniter. It
was a lie that he was about the rule of law,
and it was a lie that his brain wasn't scrambled eggs.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Essentially. But as we know, perhaps the biggest of all.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
The lies actions already underway on an exact executive level
as Trump is back in the White House.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
We'll talk about this when we come back. Buck.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
He's ended the CBP one app, which was basically a
speaking of get out at jelfree kind of a you're
able to come in and be granted asylum on the phone.
And there were hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
people who took advantage of that. That is gone, So
again CBP one app. We'll talk about it when we
(28:25):
come back. Trump officially President of the United States, hallelujah, hallelujah.
And one of the things I'm told that he's going
to do tonight buck is continue to focus on bringing
back all of the Israeli hostages, including potentially having some
of the hostages on stage with him in the Capitol
one former hostages that have been returned to continue to
(28:46):
put pressure on everybody else.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Can I ask you a question, really, yeah, what is
your favorite executive order so far, either either in place
or about to be? Because we've been told a lot
of what what do.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
You think is I think the most significant and con
sequential is the ending of birthright citizenship. I have to
agree with that, yeah, and now it's going to be
in court for years. But when Trump started talking about
that in twenty fifteen, it was like the third rail.
You couldn't even mention it. Aloud without people losing their mind.
And now really the courts are going to have to
(29:18):
analyze this going forward, does it or does it not exist? Again,
we're talking about right of soil citizenship, like you're just
in a country as opposed to your parents.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Being said, it.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Seems so straightforward if you just forget about all the
legal lees for a second, just think it through. How
could it be that the government of the United States
rewards people for breaking the law? Yeah, how could that
make sense? How could that be what the founders? How
could that be what Congress intends? It's crazy time. It's
(29:51):
not something that makes any sense. So this is why,
once again, the foundation of so much of this return
of Trump is a return of common sense in policy,
in the executive branch and in governance.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Yeah, and again one of the things that Trump said
was they're going to be held to pay if these
hostages are not back, and they're continuing to focus on them.
And look, this is one reason why Trump has been
so consequential. All of you and how you voted has
already made a difference. Three hostages returned in Israel. There
right now is a ceasefire in place, and we hope
(30:29):
that by January twenty seventh, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day,
even more of these individuals who've been held hostage for
nearly five hundred days are going to be back. And
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Speaker 5 (31:39):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Just a huge celebration
in the streets of Washington, DC. There are tons of
Trump voters that have made their trip to Washington, DC
to celebrate the change in power and how everything is
(32:00):
is changing instantaneously, including we just told you the CBP
one app and I wanted to make sure that I
mentioned that because it has been a pathway that Biden
has allowed millions of illegals into the country bypassing our border.
As soon as Trump took office, boom, it has changed.
(32:21):
You can no longer use that app. He is securing
the border. Also, if you want a good smile, they
took over instantaneously white House dot gov and there's some
pretty fantastic Trump videos up there, Buck the official page
of the White House.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Now, I know that that's just a little bit.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It's funny and it's dunking on the departed Biden staffers
and everything in a sense, but it is also indicative,
I think, Clay, of how this new team is. It
is like they have a giant in book. They have
opened it up, and they have hit the the execute button,
you know what I mean, Like time to go, time
to implement the plan.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Let's make this happened.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
You know, one thing I loved about the speech, and
I thought it was one of the best, if not
the best speeches that Trump has given. You like this
the fact that it was organized, structured, and didn't run long, right,
I mean, it was something that was very sort of
buttoned up, especially for a Trump speech.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Long speech too long always takes away from the speech.
It was perfectly timed.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I thought he didn't even mention Biden or Kamala. To
my knowledge listening to it, I didn't hear him mention
him at all. And yet he was systemically laying out
that he was going to essentially do away with everything
that they had done for the past four years. And
it was certainly a powerful moment to watch Biden flying
(33:41):
away and recognize that we've taken back control of the government.
And I think it's so important that we have a
unified Republican House, Senate, and White House. And they are
hitting the ground running, and the expectation is that in
a little over an hour Trump is going to go
into the Capitol One Arena. That's where the NBA and
(34:04):
NHL teams play here in Washington, DC, and around twenty
thousand people, it is absolutely swarmed, slammed, every seat filled.
There is a mini desk, remember that little mini desk
that Biden would use back in the day. There is
a desk set up on the stage there. And the
expectation is that when they sit down, they are going
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to be signing many of these executive orders right there
in front of all of you. I'm sure to be
carried on Fox News. We may well carry it with
the Sean Hannity Show going forward. And there's just a
lot of momentum that is already underway. And as you said,
(34:44):
this is the greatest political comeback, and we told you
this on November sixth, and we came on, We've never
seen anything like this to go from think about where
we were four years ago. Biden's coming into office. He's
immediately trying to overturn all the border security, so much
of what Donald Trump worked hard to put in place.
They're having that weird socially distanced in inauguration where everybody's
(35:08):
in masks and now boom, here we are. Trump is
at his most descendant, at his most powerful, culminating the
greatest political comeback I think in American history. And we're
just getting started. But I said, you were walking on
the streets buck, I said, I wish, as sort of
a history nerd, I could look one hundred or two
hundred years into the future, this be covered well, and
(35:29):
how this whole campaign and everything is going to be covered.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
A lot of it will be determined by the next
four years. And I would argue a lot of that
will be determined, or rather the one hundred year overview
of Trump two point zero, the second term of Trump
Trump forty seven is going to be out to the
next eighteen months ago. Because this is he can take
out the steamroller right now and get it done and
(35:53):
change things and make big moves, and it's all there
for him. It is all in front of us. This
is not an over promise or an exaggeration. This is
a Trump presidency that can be consequential and can be
defining for years, perhaps decades, perhaps this twenty first century America. Okay,
(36:15):
there are huge things that can get done here, and
I just hope that we can keep the help keep
them on task, on mission.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But it really is a great day.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I mean, this is the most joyous inauguration from just
talking to everybody and the party faithful, the most joyous
inauguration I think we've ever witnessed for a Republican president.
Again in living memory. Some of you might say, well
Reagan as well, But it's incredible down here, folks in DC.
We'll come back with more here in the third hour,
(36:45):
bring you observations from the street level, and also from
the policies that are coming down to the executive orders
and whatever place got going for us.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
A lot of things that
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