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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's jump into third hour of play and Bucky, everybody,
thank you for being here with us. And there's a
lot on the national security front that I wanted to
talk about here. We've been discussing Clay hit us in
the last hour with some of the new data just
on how much the American people are rallying to Trump
(00:20):
so far in this administration to support numbers while they
speak for themselves, very very strong support of what Donald
Trump has done so far. Now that's mostly on the
domestic policy front, that's the border, that's the spending and DOGE,
but also I think what we're going to see pretty
rapidly here is a lot of support for the Trump
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foreign policy. Trump's foreign policy was one of the standout
strengths of his first administration. Let's remember Trump came into
office and the Islamic State had just gone through years
under the Obama administration of mass torch, rape, murdering, you know,
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lighting people on fire, making these videos, the worst kind
of stuff. Trump comes in, he goes forget all the nonsense.
Let's get the generals and the troops on the ground.
Let's let them make the calls how to take out
the enemy and they just rolled through Isis took Raka.
They're they're so called capital of the Caliphate. This doesn't
even get discussed anymore, but it's it was. It was remarkable.
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And also then, as we know, no new wars, you know,
no Russian invasion of Ukraine, all this, I just know Clay,
you know. Right now we've got Pete Hegseeth. Who have
you seen some of these recruiting videos for the army
that they've already released. Sean Parnell, formerly of the Clay
and Buck network now and Under Secretary of Defense for Communication.
So we're very proud of Sean. He's already at the Pentagon.
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He shared this earlier today. And it's just videos. It's
like the videos that were recruiting for the Army and
the Marines were growing up. I still remember there was
a a commercial The Few the Proud the Marines. You
remember that when we were kids. Oh yeah, and they
with the marine sword and in the marine dressed uniform
and actually heber being like that is so badass, Like
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I want to be a marine, like you know, And
that's the first of all the Marines have earned that,
and then some for what they've done in the you know,
many decades of their well centuries actually of their existence.
But beyond that, this is the mindset shift that I
think is really powerful. So Pete is there, he's jogging
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in Germany, he's doing push ups and all this stuff.
That's Secuary defense. Elbridge Colby known better as Bridge, as
I've mentioned before, we've had him on this show. He's
up for a senior Pentagon position. There seems to be
I'm hearing some rumors or a little bit of scuttle
butt that there are a couple of Republicans that are
a little bit weak on Bridge. I've known Brin since
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I was twenty four twenty five years old, so about
twenty years now. He's one of the smartest guys on
Nashal has been one of the smartest guys on National
I've known for twenty years, and I know like all
of them, you know all the names for my age
group that have done national security. Not all of them,
but you know, I tend to know the people in
the space. Incredibly smart guy aligned with Trump, aligned with
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Secretary heg Seth. I do not I think any hesitation
from any Republican over confirming Bridge with a Senate confirmation
is I just think it's it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, I mean I think this is key. You know
him really well. We got a lot of Senate staff
that listen to a lot of people who are involved
in Republican politics. If you were a senator or you
were called in to ask about whether Bridge Colby should
be a part of the United States government, you would
say what directly based on your knowledge of him and
his work ethic for a long time. I think he
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should be among the easiest confirmations that the Senate has.
You know, he should he in my mind, he should
get Marco Rubio level support because there's no there's no Democrat. Oh,
he hasn't had this, He hasn't done these jobs. If
he's worked at Pentagon before, he's worked in national security
for over twenty years. This is all he does.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The guy eats, sleeps, breeds, Pentagon policy, military policy, grand
strategy is all he does and has done his whole life.
I don't know. To me, it's now it's something about
Iran or is he hawkish enough on Iran? You know,
these are labels that people use a lot for different stuff.
First of all, look at what Iran policy has been
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under Trump. Ron policy under Trump is going to be
very strong. Bridges aligned with that. Iran got very you know,
got a very easy deal under the Obama and then
Biden administrations. That's not going to happen. So to me, yeah,
I know that we have Senate staffers. I know we
have some senators who listen, Hey, senators, good to have you,
Good to have you hanging with us today. Bridge should
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be one hundred percent of Republicans sho. Senator should absolutely
vote for him, and I actually think a lot of Democrats
shoud vote for him too. It would be absurd for
them not to. So I think it's an easy one.
And if any Senator disagrees, they're welcome to come on
the show. Senator Tom Cotton, You're welcome to come on
the show and explain what your I don't know if
by the way, I'm calling out Senator Cotton on this
in so far as I don't know if that's true
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or not. Charlie Kirk tweeted this out or put it
out on X and maybe it's you know, maybe that's
a misunderstanding of Senator Cotton's position. But if he wants
to come on and discuss with us, why he doesn't
think that Bridge is aligned enough with Trump and doesn't
have the skill set for this. I would welcome that conversation.
I'll put it out that way, but I think I
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do think he's going to get confirmed that I think
it shouldn't be a problem. Now back to back to
our regularly scheduled programming of how Trump can fix the
world of national security abroad, specifically Russia, Ukraine stuff which
we know he's trying to do, and Secretary Rubio, who
gave I mean fantastic interview here on the show. You know,
(05:50):
it was all over the place in the global press.
I mean it was an important interview. We really covered
a lot of topics. If you missed that one, go
back in the podcast. What day did we do that?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Clay was his birthday because I think he was scheduled
that's right, one day, Wednesday maybe, and then he came
on Thursday, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Worth worth listening to because of it. We really touched
on the big issues and and you know, one of
the great things the radio is we can let our
guests talk. You know, when you have a good guest on,
you let them talk and do their thing. It's not
like TV. Where it's like you have three minutes explain
the world. TV can be rough that way. Sometimes you know, hey,
you're doing should those what should Trump do next?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You have ten seconds for people who don't know, like
they'll be in your ear, like you only have ten.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Seconds to answer that one. And if you have to
ask them, can you repeat that? It's like, oh, use
half your time, So you got to move very fast.
The love of mere Zelanski of Ukraine was on Meet
the Press with Kristin Welker, and this is what he
said about the process that is beginning now, where the
early stages of this to get some kind of resolution
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to this horrible war that has caused hundreds of thousands
of casualties. Play sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So I will never accept any decisions between the United
States and Russia about Ukraine. Never an our people, never
an hour, adults and children and everybody. And it's come
to so this is the war in Ukraine against US,
and it is our human losses. Thankful for all the support,
unity between USA in USA around Ukraine, support by Pattisan unity,
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by Patterisan support. But I thankful for all of this.
But there is no any leader in the world who
can really make a deal with Putting without us about us.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Putin can't get a deal done without Zolensky, Zelenski saying,
you know that he's kind of calling his own shots
on this one, Clay. If Trump, I am very much
hoping and I am optimistic that Trump is going to
bring a cessation to bring this fighting to at least
a ceasefire. But to our earlier point, then that would
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immediately bring up how did Democrats allow this word to
grind on for years and just caused so much carnage
and destruction and loss. And Trump comes into office and
we're already talking about how it can end or maybe
we'll be at at least at a much better place
than it was. I think that's imminent.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We know we don't have honesty in the way that
the Pulitzer Prizes or the Nobel Peace Prizes are given
out yearly, but who would have done more. We've got
a ceasefire right now in Gaza, and I hope the
hostages keep coming back, and I hope that that ceasefire continues.
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Trump made that happen. I don't think it would have
happened if we had not elected Trump. That's certainly what
the Israelis. Believe they told me that when I was
in Israel, if he is able to get a ceasefire
and or a resolution in some form or fashion in
year one, who would have done more for peace in
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the modern era than Donald Trump? If we had an
honest accounting, he would unanimously get the Nobel Peace Prize
because when he came into office, when he won election,
we had war in the Middle East, and we had
war in Europe. Even if you hate Trump with every
fiber of your being, it is impossible to argue that
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things are not looking better in the Middle East and
looking better in Europe right now than they did for
basically the entirety of the Biden administration from the moment
of invasion in Ukraine, which was twenty twenty two, if
I remember correctly, and was it October seventh, twenty twenty three,
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I believe I got the dates right. You want to
talk about a foreign policy buck, remember I believe it
was Jake Sullivan who the week before October seventh happened,
said he couldn't find a time when things had been
more peaceful in the Middle East, bragging about how Biden
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policy had brought peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That was a tough sound bite for all time.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
A yeah, yeah, you know, it's like somebody saying the
week before nine to eleven, Hey, I don't know that
we've ever had Islamic fundamentalism whipped more than right now,
that's basically what he was saying. In the Middle East.
Trump would have to get the Nobel Peace Prize if
we had an honest accounting for leadership. Now, there's still a.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Lot Remember when Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize being Obama, Yes,
just for being Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize. You're so amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Even Obama was like, this is ridiculous, Like he got
the Nobel Peace Prize basically just for winning the presidential
election in two thousand and eight. That's how rigged the
game is. But look, we know that that these awards
are not given out fairly. But it is still kind
of amazing to think about what Trump has done to
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increase global stability so far in both the Middle East
and in Europe.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now, still a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But as we started off the show by saying, I
feel very very comfortable with Marco Rubio heading up this
discussion with Russia. Marco Rubio is tough, he's super smart,
he understands the geopolitical stakes, and ultimately we need to
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get the war to end in Ukraine because there have
been hundreds of thousands of young men killed there, and
to what benefit in either direction? As Russia fundamentally changed
the geopolitical power of its country by sacrificing hundreds of
thousands of people, I don't think so. Is Ukraine in
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a fundamentally stronger position by giving up one hundred thousand
plus of its young men to die in that war?
I don't think so. I hate to say it, but
it feels to me like all of these men, almost
all men, they died in vain. To what end? And
to your point, Buck and one that everybody should be asking.
(12:05):
There's a lot of reports this war could have ended
several years ago, and the Biden administration kept it from ending.
I think those are questions that should be asked about
blood on the hands? Yeah, think about that. Think about
the implications of that for a moment, because of all
the Democrats who were.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like Ukraine flags. Also, where do the Ukraine flags go? Guys?
You notice this vanished? Why the war's still going on?
Where are those Ukraine flags all? Those people, Oh, you're
a puppet of Pudin if you're not supportive of a Ukraine.
I want Ukraine to win, but I know they can't.
That's the difference, because I live in the real world,
and you know, this is the part of it that
everyone's kind of left out. It wasn't There's not some
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chorus of people in America. And you know, they the Democrats,
they love to slander Tucker on this, They love to
just slander anybody who question. But there's not some chorus
of people in America who are like, you know what,
I want Putin to just take all of Ukraine and
then march on Russia. That's a fantasy, that's a figment.
It doesn't exist. We're just trying to figure out, Hey,
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what are the realistic implications of this conflict, and how
do we bring it to an end as quickly as
possible with as few lost lives as possible. Because if
the end state is going to be the lands that
that Russia has already kind of controlled for a decade
at this point, going to Russia, if that's the end state,
you're facing to get this thing to end, This is
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how conflicts end. No one's saying it's going to make
everyone feel warm and fuzzy when the deal is signed.
But how about you save one hundred thousand lives.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
How about Also Democrats have to acknowledge that their ridiculous
argument that if he took part of Ukraine that next
up would be Poland, or that next up would be
that somehow Vladimir Putin was going to sweep across Europe
Hitler style and be taking on additional countries. This was
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always one of the most outrageous arguments, and again it
ties back in with how we started to showbuck. It's
like Democrats have no ability to anaaloze and anologize any
aspect of history to anything other than what happened in
World War Two. Everyone is Hitler. Everything is always a
echo or a or a reflection of what happened in
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World War Two. They are childlike in their analysis, and
much of the media just follows them down the rabbit
hole of absurdity, and very few people take a step
back and say, Okay, look, invading Ukraine is not a
good thing. We don't want to encourage it. But also
this is not going to fundamentally alter what is occurring
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in Europe. And if you really want to blame somebody
and that we've had this conversation on the program. Honestly,
it's us because we got Ukraine to give up their
nukes and we said we will defend you, and they
gave up their nukes and we didn't defend them. So really,
the lesson, if you want to take it, is and
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this is what Iran and North Korea are applying. This
is the real politic here. We need nukes because without
nukes we are vulnerable. You know what, buck, Russia wouldn't
have invaded Ukraine if they hadn't given up those nuclear weapons.
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nuclear war in Ukraine to dating advice.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
In the modern era. You know, we we jump topics here.
Like nobody's business, there's always always more to be said.
We leave some of it on the cutting room floor,
but we've got, we've got a lot of a lot
of stuff having conversations about you know, uh, you know
the DM slide. You know, if you're single guy, if
you're a single guy, I don't think there is a
probably that you slide it in the dms. You know,
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some prominent people recently are prominent individual recently was in
the news for a little DM slide that got the
well it went beyond the DM slide, but the point is, well,
Elon Musk has got another child, so uh.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And it originally occurred because he jumped into the direct messages.
For those of you who don't know, you can send
messages on social media and anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Has like, hey, I think you're cool, let's talk. You know,
it's it's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
How many direct messages when you were single in New
York City do you think you sent? Oh, he's gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I've I've pleaded the fifth on the like only I mean,
for the record, very few, but I plead the fifth
on even trying to give any kind of an actual
number here for people out there who don't know what
percentage of couples like, let's take away being in the
same school or being at the same work right. Who
meets online these days? As you can say, make it's
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like half at least half more couples. It's more than
half because because also people are generally you know a
lot of people sort of say them that one way
and they met another. It's sixty to seventy sixty seventy
percent now of people are are meeting their partner and
then you know, eventually even their spouse through some form
of online You know, people use Instagram as a dating
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site something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Did you meet your wife online?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I sent her a message on LinkedIn? I mean sorry,
not not LinkedIn? Not LinkedIn? You are sorry? Sorry no, no, no, no,
we I mean we were aware of each other from
fox and she thought she at one point was following
me on Instagram, and then realized I had a girlfriend
at that time, so that it was hands off. And
then I was single again, and then I found out
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she was single, and then I reached out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Alis can Ali pull up to the mic. Here, you're
married to Gerard, the most masculine man on the planet,
but you slid into his DMS after you met him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Full disclosure, I certainly did no shame.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You met him at a party.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We initially met at a party.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And were you following each other or you sought him
out and just went straight DM.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We both sought each other out online and then.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I just you sent the message to him first, I did,
what did you say?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
What's up to?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Basically just you up? Ali just went straight you up?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And now she's married.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I asked him what he was doing and he said
right now at this moment. I said, oh sure, and
he said coming to meet you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So then we met him.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Wow, and now you're married and happily ever after. I
see in all of this social media universe. I was
I was married before technics.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He would have had to be on like uh, you know,
Christian Mingle or something back in the back in your days.
You would have had to use a dial up like
Aol Internet. You know. Clay would be.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Like, you've got mail, like, hey, we actually met each
other face to face and uh and and we actually
had conversations. You guys are just throwing hell Mary's out there,
got like twenty different messages flying out.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No idea a sportsman, sportsman, you only need to catch
one Hail Mary to win the Super Bowl, my friend,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's true. Well, so that but that that is the
backdrop to to the story about Elon having more kids everything.
Here's my take on Elon, and I may be in
the minority on this. Elon is the most brilliant, successful person,
uh in all of America right now. In my opinion,
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I think Elon should have as many kids as Elon
can take care of because I want his genes creating
the next generation of genius. Now, other people out there
don't have my same tame.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I am super pro Elon as well. In terms of
his I mean, there's no question he's the most important CEO,
the most visionary CEO. What he did for free speech
and politics in this country by buying it, I mean,
he's amazing. He's amazing, all due respect and all that,
but every kid wants a dad and if you're not around,
and I also I think it was I think it
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was like my parish priests of this to my mom
a long time ago, and she passed along to me.
You know, if you want to if you want to
love the child, love the mother. For the husbands out there,
it's a very important, very important maxim as well to
love the child, love the mother. So I think you
want to be around. I think that everyone wants a dad.
I grew up around a lot of very privileged as
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an understatement kids in Manhattan, and the ones who had
broken families or separated families or whatever, Clay, I'm telling you,
they would they would have rather had fewer private jet
trips and more time with dad.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well, the data also reflects boys in particular are the
most broken by dads not being in the house. In
other words, younger girls, I think, because they see their mom,
who tends to have custody as the role model, do
not suffer as much as young boys do from not
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having a man in the household. And honestly, we had
the conversation about this last week because I went and
talked about why young men are breaking in the direction
of Republicans the University of Chicago. I do think, buck,
a big aspect of young men struggling in America today
is and this is me getting on my me, climbing
on my you know, prespas here or my pedestal. A
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lot of dads are failing at dadding, and a lot
of grandpas are trying to pick.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Up the first rule of being a dad is being present.
That's right, And I know I know other thing's not perfect,
and I know people have problems or whatever, but you know, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So I'm contradicting myself a bit here because I do
think the dad in the household matters a tremendous amount,
particularly for young boys.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I would say, you're you're looking at it through all
this the macro survival of the human species over the
next dollars of years, which is my concern.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
By the way, this is why I tell my boys, hey,
get married and have as many kids as you can,
because the population is collapsing. This is my thing where
everybody's like, oh, the seas are gonna rise like four inches,
and you know you're not gonna be able to go
to Newark and have as much fun in Newark as
you used to. And I'm like, do you guys not
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realize the entire global population is collapsing and South Korea
is not going to exist in one hundred years and
it'll He's not gonna exist, and Japan's not going to exist.
This is my calamity buy in, like, we got to
have more kids, and ultimately kids are in endorsements and
investments in the betterment of the future, and it ultimately
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to me, reflects an international depression that so many young
people out there are afraid to bring new life into
the world. This is what I worry about.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you know, I think that on the right we've
fallen a little bit into this. Yes, it is true,
judge not lest you be judged. It's not about judging
any one individual or I think you should be able
to have conversations where you can say, look, this is
what this is what the aspiration is, right. I mean,
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as Christians, you aspire to to, you know, to live
in in the in the in the way of Jesus
Christ themselves. You're never going to get there, right, but
you still there's something you aspire. You're trying, you're trying
to hold yourself up to it, to an ideal. And
I think when you're talking about the parenting stuff, and
you know, Elon and all the kids, again, Elon's amazing
in so many ways. We have a lot of respect
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for that. But I do think that it's important that
people when they can you know, you want a mom
and a dad, yeah, and you can't be a mom
and a dad when you have eight different moms and
fifteen kids or thirteen kids or whatever it is the
way that you otherwise could now with someone like Elon Musk,
you're talking about also a person who is maybe going
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to like help save the human species. I mean, you know,
there's other I understand there's these other factors. So it's
not to criticize Elon. And you know, no one's perfect,
and I get all of that, but I do think
it's okay to still say out loud, we really do
want a mom and a dad at home taking care
of it, you know, taking. I don't mean in terms
of like chores and that labored differentiation. But kids need
(27:49):
a mom and a dad. Kids need a mom and
a dead you know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And there's a lot of talking left and living right,
and once you see it, you can't un it. We've
talked about it some on this program. A lot of
people out there who claim that they are ardent leftists,
do you know what they do in their own life.
They're married, they have kids inside of a wedlock. They
(28:12):
raise those kids, put them in private school, oftentimes live
in gated communities where their families are protected. And meanwhile
they tell you, hey, left wing ideals are to be
aspired to, But in their own life they talk left
and live right. And that is true. Go look at
(28:32):
the successful Democrat politicians out there. Most of them live
behind a wall. Most of them try to be married
and then raise their kids. They put their kids in
private school. It's just kind of fascinating. Was a great
line about I give credit to him. Was it Michael
Moore back in the day? I think it was Michael
(28:53):
Moore who said, you look at the Democrats and their
constituency on the floor, but then when you look at
the suites, it's all a lot of rich white people,
you know, like they got all the diversity down on
the floor. Look at the delegates, Look how representative of
the world they are. And then you start to rise
and you look at like the super expensive suites that
(29:15):
surround the convention. It's a bunch of super rich white
liberals who are pulling the strings for so much of
what's going on, and they're living differently than the values
with which they would otherwise associate themselves very often.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So, yes, you can talk about the genius of an
individual while also discussing how no one is perfect and
there are some things that maybe should be done a
little bit, a little bit differently, or you know, Aspirationally,
we could all want something. We weren't going to talk
about the border, but we started talking about dating and
that's a wide range. We'll tell you the border data,
(29:52):
at least.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
We'll probably talk about the border quite a bit tomorrow,
but we'll give you some of that data in the
next segment. Also kind of set the table for Tuesday's
ed issues. It's like happy at the end of.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The show here too. I mean, at least for those
of us who believe in sovereignty and a secure border.
So that's nice. It's not like we're not going to
depress you with the border data. The border data is
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Speaker 2 (31:28):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Before we got into
a discussion about modern parenting, I was going to share
with all of you some of this data, and we
will dive into it tomorrow because I do think it's significant.
What was the number one promise that Trump made to
everyone out there that he would solve the issues at
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the border, and by and large, that is exactly what
he has done. And I want to share these numbers
with you because they are so significant in terms of
the impact that Trump has had on the border. And
I am scrolling right now to make sure that I
have them in front of me. But it is really
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kind of amazing what he has been capable of. So
around eleven thousand people a day, we're crossing the southern border.
At the worst moments of Biden's opening up everything, right
they were completely opening up everything at the southern border.
Now we are down to only a couple of one
(32:32):
hundred people that are crossing into the United States on
a day to day basis right now. That is a
profoundly changed dynamic as it pertains to the southern border
being shut down. And here's what Tom Homan tweeted earlier today.
In the last twenty four hours, the US Border Patrol
has encountered a total of two hundred and twenty nine
(32:55):
aliens across the entire Southwest border is down from a
high of over eleven thousand a day under Biden. I started.
This is Tom Holman's tweet. I started as a border
patrol agent in nineteen eighty four, and I don't remember
the numbers ever being that low. President Trump promised the
(33:16):
secure border, and he is delivering. Tom Homan, us borders are.
I think it's important to point out the wins. And
basically the media has stopped talking about the border because
they don't want to acknowledge how effective Trump's policies have been.
Buck But I think it's certainly important for us to
(33:37):
continue to make sure all of you understand promises made,
promise is kept.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I mean also here, this is cut twenty. Here's Tom
Homan trying to deal with some of the propaganda that's
out there to undermine the efforts of what they're doing.
He's saying, look, they're not going into schools to grab
kids or anything like that. They're dealing with public safety
threats first and foremost, meaning dangerous criminal illegal aliens. This
(34:03):
is twenty.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
That's what I'd made occur to to Mayor Adams, is
that we're not rating schools we're not rating churches, we're
not rating college campuses. But if we have a significant
public stats to threats, significant public statsy threat or national security.
Let's say, for instance, an MS third team member who's
the senior in the high school who's wanted for drug distribution,
our strong armoraderies, we will go to that school and
rest that MS thirt team member with the help of
(34:29):
the local authorities. It's not about rating school. It's about
russell one bad guy where we know he is and
not let him escape back into the community. That's what
discussion we had.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Just make perfect sense. The media goes they're going into schools.
Wait a second, they're not trying to drag thirteen year
olds out in deportation out of school. That's not what's happening. Okay,
what is happening is exactly what he said. If you're eighteen,
and let me just point out, in some cases in
these high schools you got nineteen year olds. You know,
you got like twenty year olds, the kids that have
(34:59):
been held back a couple years or whatever. You're an
eighteen year old senior who's a member of EVIS thirteen.
You're in the country illegally and you've hurt people, and
you're and you've been convicted of serious crimes. You gotta go.
And because you're in school doesn't give you some special Uh.
You know, if you're an American citizen and you had
committed a heinous crime, you can't excuse me. Uh, I've
(35:20):
got you know, third period biology. You're not allowed to
arrest me.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Now totally and again, this is why I think Trump's
numbers are continuing to go up. I don't know that
we've ever seen a politician in a more transactional fashion
tell us I'm gonna do a B and C as
soon as I get into office. And then he comes
into office, and what do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
AB and C.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
He's not hiding the ball. He told us exactly what
he's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Doesn't It also tell you so much that that now
the same way that there are some journalists whose brands
became in recent years, they actually do journalism because it's
so rare. Donald Trump, the I'm a politician who's going
to run a campaign saying things and then immediately start
doing those things. It's mind blowing to a lot of Yah,
(36:05):
what do you mean You're not supposed to actually do
the things you promised you would do. You're a politician.
He's coming in and saying, no, actually, I'm gonna do it.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
He is delivering on exactly what he promised. Seventy percent
of people in the CBS poll said that they believed that,
and I believe that is why his numbers in popularity
are skyrocketing. It also is a function of the legacy
media collapse. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll dive into the
border numbers a bit more. We've got a request in
to Tom Homan. I'm sure we'll have him on soon
as well. But we appreciate all of you, hope you
(36:35):
have a fabulous President's Day, and we're honored to sit
behind the mic that Rush made famous.
All right, let's jump into third hour of play and Bucky, everybody,
thank you for being here with us. And there's a
lot on the national security front that I wanted to
talk about here. We've been discussing Clay hit us in
the last hour with some of the new data just
on how much the American people are rallying to Trump
(00:20):
so far in this administration to support numbers while they
speak for themselves, very very strong support of what Donald
Trump has done so far. Now that's mostly on the
domestic policy front, that's the border, that's the spending and DOGE,
but also I think what we're going to see pretty
rapidly here is a lot of support for the Trump
(00:42):
foreign policy. Trump's foreign policy was one of the standout
strengths of his first administration. Let's remember Trump came into
office and the Islamic State had just gone through years
under the Obama administration of mass torch, rape, murdering, you know,
(01:02):
lighting people on fire, making these videos, the worst kind
of stuff. Trump comes in, he goes forget all the nonsense.
Let's get the generals and the troops on the ground.
Let's let them make the calls how to take out
the enemy and they just rolled through Isis took Raka.
They're they're so called capital of the Caliphate. This doesn't
even get discussed anymore, but it's it was. It was remarkable.
(01:26):
And also then, as we know, no new wars, you know,
no Russian invasion of Ukraine, all this, I just know Clay,
you know. Right now we've got Pete Hegseeth. Who have
you seen some of these recruiting videos for the army
that they've already released. Sean Parnell, formerly of the Clay
and Buck network now and Under Secretary of Defense for Communication.
So we're very proud of Sean. He's already at the Pentagon.
(01:49):
He shared this earlier today. And it's just videos. It's
like the videos that were recruiting for the Army and
the Marines were growing up. I still remember there was
a a commercial The Few the Proud the Marines. You
remember that when we were kids. Oh yeah, and they
with the marine sword and in the marine dressed uniform
and actually heber being like that is so badass, Like
(02:09):
I want to be a marine, like you know, And
that's the first of all the Marines have earned that,
and then some for what they've done in the you know,
many decades of their well centuries actually of their existence.
But beyond that, this is the mindset shift that I
think is really powerful. So Pete is there, he's jogging
(02:31):
in Germany, he's doing push ups and all this stuff.
That's Secuary defense. Elbridge Colby known better as Bridge, as
I've mentioned before, we've had him on this show. He's
up for a senior Pentagon position. There seems to be
I'm hearing some rumors or a little bit of scuttle
butt that there are a couple of Republicans that are
a little bit weak on Bridge. I've known Brin since
(02:52):
I was twenty four twenty five years old, so about
twenty years now. He's one of the smartest guys on
Nashal has been one of the smartest guys on National
I've known for twenty years, and I know like all
of them, you know all the names for my age
group that have done national security. Not all of them,
but you know, I tend to know the people in
the space. Incredibly smart guy aligned with Trump, aligned with
(03:13):
Secretary heg Seth. I do not I think any hesitation
from any Republican over confirming Bridge with a Senate confirmation
is I just think it's it's absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
No, I mean I think this is key. You know
him really well. We got a lot of Senate staff
that listen to a lot of people who are involved
in Republican politics. If you were a senator or you
were called in to ask about whether Bridge Colby should
be a part of the United States government, you would
say what directly based on your knowledge of him and
his work ethic for a long time. I think he
(03:46):
should be among the easiest confirmations that the Senate has.
You know, he should he in my mind, he should
get Marco Rubio level support because there's no there's no Democrat. Oh,
he hasn't had this, He hasn't done these jobs. If
he's worked at Pentagon before, he's worked in national security
for over twenty years. This is all he does.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
The guy eats, sleeps, breeds, Pentagon policy, military policy, grand
strategy is all he does and has done his whole life.
I don't know. To me, it's now it's something about
Iran or is he hawkish enough on Iran? You know,
these are labels that people use a lot for different stuff.
First of all, look at what Iran policy has been
(04:26):
under Trump. Ron policy under Trump is going to be
very strong. Bridges aligned with that. Iran got very you know,
got a very easy deal under the Obama and then
Biden administrations. That's not going to happen. So to me, yeah,
I know that we have Senate staffers. I know we
have some senators who listen, Hey, senators, good to have you,
Good to have you hanging with us today. Bridge should
(04:46):
be one hundred percent of Republicans sho. Senator should absolutely
vote for him, and I actually think a lot of Democrats
shoud vote for him too. It would be absurd for
them not to. So I think it's an easy one.
And if any Senator disagrees, they're welcome to come on
the show. Senator Tom Cotton, You're welcome to come on
the show and explain what your I don't know if
by the way, I'm calling out Senator Cotton on this
in so far as I don't know if that's true
(05:07):
or not. Charlie Kirk tweeted this out or put it
out on X and maybe it's you know, maybe that's
a misunderstanding of Senator Cotton's position. But if he wants
to come on and discuss with us, why he doesn't
think that Bridge is aligned enough with Trump and doesn't
have the skill set for this. I would welcome that conversation.
I'll put it out that way, but I think I
(05:28):
do think he's going to get confirmed that I think
it shouldn't be a problem. Now back to back to
our regularly scheduled programming of how Trump can fix the
world of national security abroad, specifically Russia, Ukraine stuff which
we know he's trying to do, and Secretary Rubio, who
gave I mean fantastic interview here on the show. You know,
(05:50):
it was all over the place in the global press.
I mean it was an important interview. We really covered
a lot of topics. If you missed that one, go
back in the podcast. What day did we do that?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Clay was his birthday because I think he was scheduled
that's right, one day, Wednesday maybe, and then he came
on Thursday, if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Worth worth listening to because of it. We really touched
on the big issues and and you know, one of
the great things the radio is we can let our
guests talk. You know, when you have a good guest on,
you let them talk and do their thing. It's not
like TV. Where it's like you have three minutes explain
the world. TV can be rough that way. Sometimes you know, hey,
you're doing should those what should Trump do next?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
You have ten seconds for people who don't know, like
they'll be in your ear, like you only have ten.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Seconds to answer that one. And if you have to
ask them, can you repeat that? It's like, oh, use
half your time, So you got to move very fast.
The love of mere Zelanski of Ukraine was on Meet
the Press with Kristin Welker, and this is what he
said about the process that is beginning now, where the
early stages of this to get some kind of resolution
(06:50):
to this horrible war that has caused hundreds of thousands
of casualties. Play sixteen.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
So I will never accept any decisions between the United
States and Russia about Ukraine. Never an our people, never
an hour, adults and children and everybody. And it's come
to so this is the war in Ukraine against US,
and it is our human losses. Thankful for all the support,
unity between USA in USA around Ukraine, support by Pattisan unity,
(07:21):
by Patterisan support. But I thankful for all of this.
But there is no any leader in the world who
can really make a deal with Putting without us about us.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Putin can't get a deal done without Zolensky, Zelenski saying,
you know that he's kind of calling his own shots
on this one, Clay. If Trump, I am very much
hoping and I am optimistic that Trump is going to
bring a cessation to bring this fighting to at least
a ceasefire. But to our earlier point, then that would
(07:57):
immediately bring up how did Democrats allow this word to
grind on for years and just caused so much carnage
and destruction and loss. And Trump comes into office and
we're already talking about how it can end or maybe
we'll be at at least at a much better place
than it was. I think that's imminent.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
We know we don't have honesty in the way that
the Pulitzer Prizes or the Nobel Peace Prizes are given
out yearly, but who would have done more. We've got
a ceasefire right now in Gaza, and I hope the
hostages keep coming back, and I hope that that ceasefire continues.
(08:32):
Trump made that happen. I don't think it would have
happened if we had not elected Trump. That's certainly what
the Israelis. Believe they told me that when I was
in Israel, if he is able to get a ceasefire
and or a resolution in some form or fashion in
year one, who would have done more for peace in
(08:55):
the modern era than Donald Trump? If we had an
honest accounting, he would unanimously get the Nobel Peace Prize
because when he came into office, when he won election,
we had war in the Middle East, and we had
war in Europe. Even if you hate Trump with every
fiber of your being, it is impossible to argue that
(09:16):
things are not looking better in the Middle East and
looking better in Europe right now than they did for
basically the entirety of the Biden administration from the moment
of invasion in Ukraine, which was twenty twenty two, if
I remember correctly, and was it October seventh, twenty twenty three,
(09:36):
I believe I got the dates right. You want to
talk about a foreign policy buck, remember I believe it
was Jake Sullivan who the week before October seventh happened,
said he couldn't find a time when things had been
more peaceful in the Middle East, bragging about how Biden
(09:57):
policy had brought peace in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
That was a tough sound bite for all time.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
A yeah, yeah, you know, it's like somebody saying the
week before nine to eleven, Hey, I don't know that
we've ever had Islamic fundamentalism whipped more than right now,
that's basically what he was saying. In the Middle East.
Trump would have to get the Nobel Peace Prize if
we had an honest accounting for leadership. Now, there's still a.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Lot Remember when Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize being Obama, Yes,
just for being Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize. You're so amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Even Obama was like, this is ridiculous, Like he got
the Nobel Peace Prize basically just for winning the presidential
election in two thousand and eight. That's how rigged the
game is. But look, we know that that these awards
are not given out fairly. But it is still kind
of amazing to think about what Trump has done to
(10:52):
increase global stability so far in both the Middle East
and in Europe.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Now, still a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But as we started off the show by saying, I
feel very very comfortable with Marco Rubio heading up this
discussion with Russia. Marco Rubio is tough, he's super smart,
he understands the geopolitical stakes, and ultimately we need to
(11:21):
get the war to end in Ukraine because there have
been hundreds of thousands of young men killed there, and
to what benefit in either direction? As Russia fundamentally changed
the geopolitical power of its country by sacrificing hundreds of
thousands of people, I don't think so. Is Ukraine in
(11:43):
a fundamentally stronger position by giving up one hundred thousand
plus of its young men to die in that war?
I don't think so. I hate to say it, but
it feels to me like all of these men, almost
all men, they died in vain. To what end? And
to your point, Buck and one that everybody should be asking.
(12:05):
There's a lot of reports this war could have ended
several years ago, and the Biden administration kept it from ending.
I think those are questions that should be asked about
blood on the hands? Yeah, think about that. Think about
the implications of that for a moment, because of all
the Democrats who were.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Like Ukraine flags. Also, where do the Ukraine flags go? Guys?
You notice this vanished? Why the war's still going on?
Where are those Ukraine flags all? Those people, Oh, you're
a puppet of Pudin if you're not supportive of a Ukraine.
I want Ukraine to win, but I know they can't.
That's the difference, because I live in the real world,
and you know, this is the part of it that
everyone's kind of left out. It wasn't There's not some
(12:44):
chorus of people in America. And you know, they the Democrats,
they love to slander Tucker on this, They love to
just slander anybody who question. But there's not some chorus
of people in America who are like, you know what,
I want Putin to just take all of Ukraine and
then march on Russia. That's a fantasy, that's a figment.
It doesn't exist. We're just trying to figure out, Hey,
(13:05):
what are the realistic implications of this conflict, and how
do we bring it to an end as quickly as
possible with as few lost lives as possible. Because if
the end state is going to be the lands that
that Russia has already kind of controlled for a decade
at this point, going to Russia, if that's the end state,
you're facing to get this thing to end, This is
(13:26):
how conflicts end. No one's saying it's going to make
everyone feel warm and fuzzy when the deal is signed.
But how about you save one hundred thousand lives.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
How about Also Democrats have to acknowledge that their ridiculous
argument that if he took part of Ukraine that next
up would be Poland, or that next up would be
that somehow Vladimir Putin was going to sweep across Europe
Hitler style and be taking on additional countries. This was
(13:56):
always one of the most outrageous arguments, and again it
ties back in with how we started to showbuck. It's
like Democrats have no ability to anaaloze and anologize any
aspect of history to anything other than what happened in
World War Two. Everyone is Hitler. Everything is always a
echo or a or a reflection of what happened in
(14:20):
World War Two. They are childlike in their analysis, and
much of the media just follows them down the rabbit
hole of absurdity, and very few people take a step
back and say, Okay, look, invading Ukraine is not a
good thing. We don't want to encourage it. But also
this is not going to fundamentally alter what is occurring
(14:41):
in Europe. And if you really want to blame somebody
and that we've had this conversation on the program. Honestly,
it's us because we got Ukraine to give up their
nukes and we said we will defend you, and they
gave up their nukes and we didn't defend them. So really,
the lesson, if you want to take it, is and
(15:02):
this is what Iran and North Korea are applying. This
is the real politic here. We need nukes because without
nukes we are vulnerable. You know what, buck, Russia wouldn't
have invaded Ukraine if they hadn't given up those nuclear weapons.
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because sometimes I think you can forget Hey. For several
years we talked about the border being wide open and
the danger that it was creating. Trump's been in office
for under a month and boom, the border is completely shut.
(17:37):
The numbers are pretty staggering. We're going to share those
with you when we come back, and you are going
to be thrilled by them.
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In the modern era. You know, we we jump topics here.
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We leave some of it on the cutting room floor,
but we've got, we've got a lot of a lot
of stuff having conversations about you know, uh, you know
the DM slide. You know, if you're single guy, if
you're a single guy, I don't think there is a
probably that you slide it in the dms. You know,
(19:23):
some prominent people recently are prominent individual recently was in
the news for a little DM slide that got the
well it went beyond the DM slide, but the point is, well,
Elon Musk has got another child, so uh.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
And it originally occurred because he jumped into the direct messages.
For those of you who don't know, you can send
messages on social media and anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Has like, hey, I think you're cool, let's talk. You know,
it's it's not a problem.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
How many direct messages when you were single in New
York City do you think you sent? Oh, he's gonna.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I've I've pleaded the fifth on the like only I mean,
for the record, very few, but I plead the fifth
on even trying to give any kind of an actual
number here for people out there who don't know what
percentage of couples like, let's take away being in the
same school or being at the same work right. Who
meets online these days? As you can say, make it's
(20:21):
like half at least half more couples. It's more than
half because because also people are generally you know a
lot of people sort of say them that one way
and they met another. It's sixty to seventy sixty seventy
percent now of people are are meeting their partner and
then you know, eventually even their spouse through some form
of online You know, people use Instagram as a dating
(20:44):
site something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Did you meet your wife online?
Speaker 1 (20:47):
I sent her a message on LinkedIn? I mean sorry,
not not LinkedIn? Not LinkedIn? You are sorry? Sorry no, no, no, no,
we I mean we were aware of each other from
fox and she thought she at one point was following
me on Instagram, and then realized I had a girlfriend
at that time, so that it was hands off. And
then I was single again, and then I found out
(21:09):
she was single, and then I reached out.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Alis can Ali pull up to the mic. Here, you're
married to Gerard, the most masculine man on the planet,
but you slid into his DMS after you met him.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Full disclosure, I certainly did no shame.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You met him at a party.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
We initially met at a party.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
And were you following each other or you sought him
out and just went straight DM.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
We both sought each other out online and then.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I just you sent the message to him first, I did,
what did you say?
Speaker 1 (21:41):
What's up to?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Basically just you up? Ali just went straight you up?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
And now she's married.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Uh No.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I asked him what he was doing and he said
right now at this moment. I said, oh sure, and
he said coming to meet you.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So then we met him.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Wow, and now you're married and happily ever after. I
see in all of this social media universe. I was
I was married before technics.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He would have had to be on like uh, you know,
Christian Mingle or something back in the back in your days.
You would have had to use a dial up like
Aol Internet. You know. Clay would be.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Like, you've got mail, like, hey, we actually met each
other face to face and uh and and we actually
had conversations. You guys are just throwing hell Mary's out there,
got like twenty different messages flying out.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
No idea a sportsman, sportsman, you only need to catch
one Hail Mary to win the Super Bowl, my friend,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's true. Well, so that but that that is the
backdrop to to the story about Elon having more kids everything.
Here's my take on Elon, and I may be in
the minority on this. Elon is the most brilliant, successful person,
uh in all of America right now. In my opinion,
(23:02):
I think Elon should have as many kids as Elon
can take care of because I want his genes creating
the next generation of genius. Now, other people out there
don't have my same tame.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I am super pro Elon as well. In terms of
his I mean, there's no question he's the most important CEO,
the most visionary CEO. What he did for free speech
and politics in this country by buying it, I mean,
he's amazing. He's amazing, all due respect and all that,
but every kid wants a dad and if you're not around,
and I also I think it was I think it
(23:38):
was like my parish priests of this to my mom
a long time ago, and she passed along to me.
You know, if you want to if you want to
love the child, love the mother. For the husbands out there,
it's a very important, very important maxim as well to
love the child, love the mother. So I think you
want to be around. I think that everyone wants a dad.
I grew up around a lot of very privileged as
(23:59):
an understatement kids in Manhattan, and the ones who had
broken families or separated families or whatever, Clay, I'm telling you,
they would they would have rather had fewer private jet
trips and more time with dad.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Well, the data also reflects boys in particular are the
most broken by dads not being in the house. In
other words, younger girls, I think, because they see their mom,
who tends to have custody as the role model, do
not suffer as much as young boys do from not
(24:36):
having a man in the household. And honestly, we had
the conversation about this last week because I went and
talked about why young men are breaking in the direction
of Republicans the University of Chicago. I do think, buck,
a big aspect of young men struggling in America today
is and this is me getting on my me, climbing
on my you know, prespas here or my pedestal. A
(25:00):
lot of dads are failing at dadding, and a lot
of grandpas are trying to pick.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Up the first rule of being a dad is being present.
That's right, And I know I know other thing's not perfect,
and I know people have problems or whatever, but you know, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
So I'm contradicting myself a bit here because I do
think the dad in the household matters a tremendous amount,
particularly for young boys.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I would say, you're you're looking at it through all
this the macro survival of the human species over the
next dollars of years, which is my concern.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
By the way, this is why I tell my boys, hey,
get married and have as many kids as you can,
because the population is collapsing. This is my thing where
everybody's like, oh, the seas are gonna rise like four inches,
and you know you're not gonna be able to go
to Newark and have as much fun in Newark as
you used to. And I'm like, do you guys not
(25:52):
realize the entire global population is collapsing and South Korea
is not going to exist in one hundred years and
it'll He's not gonna exist, and Japan's not going to exist.
This is my calamity buy in, like, we got to
have more kids, and ultimately kids are in endorsements and
investments in the betterment of the future, and it ultimately
(26:13):
to me, reflects an international depression that so many young
people out there are afraid to bring new life into
the world. This is what I worry about.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
And you know, I think that on the right we've
fallen a little bit into this. Yes, it is true,
judge not lest you be judged. It's not about judging
any one individual or I think you should be able
to have conversations where you can say, look, this is
what this is what the aspiration is, right. I mean,
(26:45):
as Christians, you aspire to to, you know, to live
in in the in the in the way of Jesus
Christ themselves. You're never going to get there, right, but
you still there's something you aspire. You're trying, you're trying
to hold yourself up to it, to an ideal. And
I think when you're talking about the parenting stuff, and
you know, Elon and all the kids, again, Elon's amazing
in so many ways. We have a lot of respect
(27:07):
for that. But I do think that it's important that
people when they can you know, you want a mom
and a dad, yeah, and you can't be a mom
and a dad when you have eight different moms and
fifteen kids or thirteen kids or whatever it is the
way that you otherwise could now with someone like Elon Musk,
you're talking about also a person who is maybe going
(27:28):
to like help save the human species. I mean, you know,
there's other I understand there's these other factors. So it's
not to criticize Elon. And you know, no one's perfect,
and I get all of that, but I do think
it's okay to still say out loud, we really do
want a mom and a dad at home taking care
of it, you know, taking. I don't mean in terms
of like chores and that labored differentiation. But kids need
(27:49):
a mom and a dad. Kids need a mom and
a dead you know.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
And there's a lot of talking left and living right,
and once you see it, you can't un it. We've
talked about it some on this program. A lot of
people out there who claim that they are ardent leftists,
do you know what they do in their own life.
They're married, they have kids inside of a wedlock. They
(28:12):
raise those kids, put them in private school, oftentimes live
in gated communities where their families are protected. And meanwhile
they tell you, hey, left wing ideals are to be
aspired to, But in their own life they talk left
and live right. And that is true. Go look at
(28:32):
the successful Democrat politicians out there. Most of them live
behind a wall. Most of them try to be married
and then raise their kids. They put their kids in
private school. It's just kind of fascinating. Was a great
line about I give credit to him. Was it Michael
Moore back in the day? I think it was Michael
(28:53):
Moore who said, you look at the Democrats and their
constituency on the floor, but then when you look at
the suites, it's all a lot of rich white people,
you know, like they got all the diversity down on
the floor. Look at the delegates, Look how representative of
the world they are. And then you start to rise
and you look at like the super expensive suites that
(29:15):
surround the convention. It's a bunch of super rich white
liberals who are pulling the strings for so much of
what's going on, and they're living differently than the values
with which they would otherwise associate themselves very often.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
So, yes, you can talk about the genius of an
individual while also discussing how no one is perfect and
there are some things that maybe should be done a
little bit, a little bit differently, or you know, Aspirationally,
we could all want something. We weren't going to talk
about the border, but we started talking about dating and
that's a wide range. We'll tell you the border data,
(29:52):
at least.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
We'll probably talk about the border quite a bit tomorrow,
but we'll give you some of that data in the
next segment. Also kind of set the table for Tuesday's
ed issues. It's like happy at the end of.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
The show here too. I mean, at least for those
of us who believe in sovereignty and a secure border.
So that's nice. It's not like we're not going to
depress you with the border data. The border data is
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Speaker 2 (31:28):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Before we got into
a discussion about modern parenting, I was going to share
with all of you some of this data, and we
will dive into it tomorrow because I do think it's significant.
What was the number one promise that Trump made to
everyone out there that he would solve the issues at
(31:49):
the border, and by and large, that is exactly what
he has done. And I want to share these numbers
with you because they are so significant in terms of
the impact that Trump has had on the border. And
I am scrolling right now to make sure that I
have them in front of me. But it is really
(32:12):
kind of amazing what he has been capable of. So
around eleven thousand people a day, we're crossing the southern border.
At the worst moments of Biden's opening up everything, right
they were completely opening up everything at the southern border.
Now we are down to only a couple of one
(32:32):
hundred people that are crossing into the United States on
a day to day basis right now. That is a
profoundly changed dynamic as it pertains to the southern border
being shut down. And here's what Tom Homan tweeted earlier today.
In the last twenty four hours, the US Border Patrol
has encountered a total of two hundred and twenty nine
(32:55):
aliens across the entire Southwest border is down from a
high of over eleven thousand a day under Biden. I started.
This is Tom Holman's tweet. I started as a border
patrol agent in nineteen eighty four, and I don't remember
the numbers ever being that low. President Trump promised the
(33:16):
secure border, and he is delivering. Tom Homan, us borders are.
I think it's important to point out the wins. And
basically the media has stopped talking about the border because
they don't want to acknowledge how effective Trump's policies have been.
Buck But I think it's certainly important for us to
(33:37):
continue to make sure all of you understand promises made,
promise is kept.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I mean also here, this is cut twenty. Here's Tom
Homan trying to deal with some of the propaganda that's
out there to undermine the efforts of what they're doing.
He's saying, look, they're not going into schools to grab
kids or anything like that. They're dealing with public safety
threats first and foremost, meaning dangerous criminal illegal aliens. This
(34:03):
is twenty.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
That's what I'd made occur to to Mayor Adams, is
that we're not rating schools we're not rating churches, we're
not rating college campuses. But if we have a significant
public stats to threats, significant public statsy threat or national security.
Let's say, for instance, an MS third team member who's
the senior in the high school who's wanted for drug distribution,
our strong armoraderies, we will go to that school and
rest that MS thirt team member with the help of
(34:29):
the local authorities. It's not about rating school. It's about
russell one bad guy where we know he is and
not let him escape back into the community. That's what
discussion we had.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Just make perfect sense. The media goes they're going into schools.
Wait a second, they're not trying to drag thirteen year
olds out in deportation out of school. That's not what's happening. Okay,
what is happening is exactly what he said. If you're eighteen,
and let me just point out, in some cases in
these high schools you got nineteen year olds. You know,
you got like twenty year olds, the kids that have
(34:59):
been held back a couple years or whatever. You're an
eighteen year old senior who's a member of EVIS thirteen.
You're in the country illegally and you've hurt people, and
you're and you've been convicted of serious crimes. You gotta go.
And because you're in school doesn't give you some special Uh.
You know, if you're an American citizen and you had
committed a heinous crime, you can't excuse me. Uh, I've
(35:20):
got you know, third period biology. You're not allowed to
arrest me.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Now totally and again, this is why I think Trump's
numbers are continuing to go up. I don't know that
we've ever seen a politician in a more transactional fashion
tell us I'm gonna do a B and C as
soon as I get into office. And then he comes
into office, and what do you do?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
AB and C.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
He's not hiding the ball. He told us exactly what
he's gonna do.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Doesn't It also tell you so much that that now
the same way that there are some journalists whose brands
became in recent years, they actually do journalism because it's
so rare. Donald Trump, the I'm a politician who's going
to run a campaign saying things and then immediately start
doing those things. It's mind blowing to a lot of Yah,
(36:05):
what do you mean You're not supposed to actually do
the things you promised you would do. You're a politician.
He's coming in and saying, no, actually, I'm gonna do it.
That's right.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
He is delivering on exactly what he promised. Seventy percent
of people in the CBS poll said that they believed that,
and I believe that is why his numbers in popularity
are skyrocketing. It also is a function of the legacy
media collapse. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll dive into the
border numbers a bit more. We've got a request in
to Tom Homan. I'm sure we'll have him on soon
as well. But we appreciate all of you, hope you
(36:35):
have a fabulous President's Day, and we're honored to sit
behind the mic that Rush made famous.
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