March 13, 2025 • 36 mins
We got clarity on Mahmoud Khalil. NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani rushes troopers at NY State Capitol in an attempt to get to Border Czar Tom Homan. Politico with a WH exclusive. Everybody needs to chill, Trump knows what he's doing. CNN reports that the Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 for mass deportation. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is cleaning things up. Secretary of State Marco Rubio responds to pro-Hamas agitators with student visas. Green Card. The Democrat blob and the flood-the-zone strategy. Protesters occupy Trump Tower. Trump brings down fentanyl imports dramatically in 60 days. Talkback asks Buck about his classical music experience in Nashville. McDonalds blasts Opera and classical music to keep drug addicts away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. And I'm telling you we got
a lot to get into today. Big things happening, lots
of news. Are Man Clay Travis enjoying a much deserve
vacation with the fam. He's with the boys and Laura
out west. I think they're skiing, having a great time.
(00:22):
He sends you all high fives and hugs. He'll be
back on Monday. We have a bunch of things to
get into. First of all, more on the aftermath of
the detention and imminent deportation of Palestinian Slash pro Hamas
activist Mahmood Khalil. We've gotten some clarification from at least
(00:46):
I think it's a clarification. There is clarity now from
I keep wanting to say Senator Secretary of State Marco
Rubio on just exactly what's going on with that and
what is the authority that he is us. We got clarity.
I asked for it. I'll tell you about that in
just a little bit, uh Politico with an exclusive. I
(01:07):
think you could call this a maybe a trial balloon,
a testing the waters moment. Guess who is skipping a
possible Senate run on the Democrat side in Michigan because
he has his eyes on a bigger prize the White House. Oh,
some of you have guessed, but I'm gonna keep you
(01:29):
on the edge of your seats. And if you're wondering,
like who is it, Oh, I'll tell you because I
think if this is the case, things are looking really
good for the Republicans in twenty twenty eight. And we've
got a lot more to get into. You want to
throw out there for you eight hundred two two two,
(01:50):
eight to two on the phones. Let's get some calls
in today, Let's talk, let's chat. Want to hear from
you all over the country. Oh, updates on Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell, and she has moved to Ireland. As we
talked about yesterday, Trump I believe has weighed in on this,
and we shall discuss that. We've also got a bunch
(02:10):
more on immigration. Look, the economy stuff is. You know,
yesterday we were going deep on what's happening with tariffs,
what's happening with the stock markets, and the day before that,
so we'll touch on a bit more of it today.
But I really think made the case yesterday that needs
to be made right now, which is everybody just needs
to chill. Trump knows what he's doing. Things are going
(02:32):
to get better quickly, but it's not an overnight process.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we will we
will get there. Okay. I want to start with immigration
today actually, and what is going on here? First of all,
there is this New York City mayoral candidate was at
(02:55):
the New York State Capitol in Albany. And this guy's
name is Zarron Mamdani. So Zoran Mamdani rushed after borders
are Tom Holman, who is I I just think is
a superstar in this Trump administration. You know, I felt
the way all along. Somebody who knows the subject matter
(03:17):
and is a warrior for the law, for sovereignty, for Americanism. Uh.
He knows the stuff backwards and forwards. So this this
guy who's running for mayor against really now Cuomo runs
at home and starts shouting at him, just just so
you know, this is the kind of Democrat who's looking
to lead the biggest city in America these days. Play
(03:38):
cut one. Tom Holman just screaming. He's on video he's
yelling at Tom Holman. Well, Tom Holman does not care.
In fact, if anything, I think Tom was probably cracking
(03:58):
a smile. Some Democrat activist slash politician is shouting at
him about all this. Here's why they're so upset. There's
a few things. As you know, the Mahmoud Khalil situation
has gotten the left very riled up right now. This
is I think a bad place for them to be.
(04:19):
This is the hill they want to fight on. Is
a guy who is very who was pro not just Hamas,
but was the stuff that this guy has said about
destroying Western civilization. I mean, this guy is is not
somebody that we want in the country, and that I've
been clear on all along. We'll get into Marco Rubio
(04:39):
here in a little bit establishing exactly what the authority
is to deport him. But here, here's why this matters
a lot. Here's why the situation of the borders are
and it's going to be Christy Nome as well at DHS. Look,
she's doing a great job so far. Holme is doing
a great job there following through on the promises of
(05:01):
the Trump campaign and of the Trump movement. But here's
the issue we've had in the past, these sanctuary cities, right,
and the Democrat controlled states that decide that they're going
to play all kinds of games to make it as
hard as possible for federal law to be enforced. No
one disagrees, and this is clear or this is important.
(05:22):
No one disagrees that the federal laws that Tom Holman
is trying to enforce aren't actually federal law. You'll notice
there's no movement among Democrats in Congress to change the
laws so that these individuals would be at least they're
not open about this, so that these individuals would no
longer be deportable. They want to blanket mass amnesty, right.
(05:45):
They're not willing to go in there and say hey,
and they don't have the power right now anyway, because
they have to lie to you. The law is that
they don't want these illegals here. They do. They want
the illegals here, but if they're too open about that,
they lose power, as just happened in this election. So
what do we do about this? Tom Holbman has an idea,
and Governor Kathy Hochel maybe finding out the hard way
(06:09):
this is cut too. He's just saying Look, if you
continue to obstruct federal law enforcement in the state of
New York, there's gonna be real problems for you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Play too, you know he's got Governor Holko stood on
national TV after NYPD officers were assaulted, saying she thinks
criminal alims should be deported. She said the same thing
after a young woman was burned up alive on a
subway by l Allen. So she says, yeah, criminal aliens
should be deported. However, when Mayor Adams meet from me
and wants to help us arrest criminal anlads get us
back on Rikers Island.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
She goes down and try to fire them. She's got
the green light in law where ICE officers and CBP
officers can't get can't get DMV data when they pull
car over here. They don't even know who the article.
They can't get data to DMV because she locked them out.
And if she says they need it WARNT to get
that data. And if they get the war get that data,
what's New York doing? They notify the bad guy that
we're investigating them. So I'm up here calling her up
(06:59):
for a Saints policies.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Look, this is critical we are getting at the heart
of the real problem here with immigration enforcement, which is
that the sanctuary states and city and cities are decided,
have decided that the federal law does not matter and
they will not work with the federal law enforcement officers.
(07:23):
In fact, they will hide information from them. No one's
even saying, hey, you have to be deputized, although no,
actually shouldn't say no one. That hasn't been the case
in the past, though, Hey, you have to be deputized
and be a part of our federal enforcement efforts. Right,
there has to be some agreement on that. You can't
(07:44):
just a commandeer if you will state troopers, as a
federal law enforcement officer said, well, you're now doing this
for us, Right, there's obvious separation of powers state and
federal that come into play. But what he's talking about,
what Tom Homan is laying out there is that New
York and I'm sure it's true in California and a
bunch of other states as well, but New York is
(08:04):
the one I'm most focused on right now, will not
get will not give data from the d m V
to the federal federal law enforcement authorities because it's a
state d MV. Right, every state has their own Department
of Motor Vehicles and New York will not give access
to federal law enforcement in the prison systems. In the
(08:27):
prison systems think about this, They're like, oh, no, you can't.
There's an illegal who you know, who's we picked up
for for you know, rape, You're you're not allowed to
come in and then and then take him into custody
and deport him. Well, hold on a second, why, Ah,
we're forcing their hand. And this is what Trump and
(08:49):
the team and you know Steven Miller, who has been
brilliant on immigration issues all along, another warrior. I mean
between between Homean and uh and Miller, you've got two
guys who have this issue so squared away. And there's
more coming. And this is the good news. And this
is why you're going to see things heating up and
Democrats are going to get even more freaked out. CNN
(09:11):
reporting that the Trump administration is expected to invoke the
Alien Enemies Act of seventeen to ninety eight, a sweeping
wartime authority, in the coming days. This is CNN reporting,
and this is designed to speed up the President's mass
deportation pledge. This is where things are going to start
(09:33):
to get really interesting. Trump and his team are instead
of trying to get Democrats to be honest and fair minded,
they're either using leverage over them, things like federal funding
to sanctuary cities. They're using the levers that they have
to get cooperation. This will, all, of course, I'm sure,
(09:54):
get tied up in courts at some point, but I
think the Trump team is on firm ground with his
and they are using authorities that a lot of people
haven't really spent much, people don't even really know or
there or have not been willing to use in the past.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And this this reminds me of And we'll get the
the Marco Rubio cut here where he taught in a
few minutes where he talks about how is it that
he can just say mood Khalil needs to leave, and
I just wanted an explanation of it so we're all clear.
He gives the explanation. I will play it for you.
But Trump in the executive branch actually has a lot
(10:36):
of authority over immigration enforcement. You know, think about it
this way Biden was And when I say Biden, you
know I mean the Biden regime, right, So you don't
have to remind me that it wasn't really Biden and
that you know, he was taking naps and drinking from
a sippy cup and they were using the auto pen
when he was asleep. I know, we all know, right,
Even Democrats know that now, or at least they've been
(10:58):
forced to face up to it. But the Biden regime
decided that immigration laws would just not be enforced. They
decided that through their executive authority of enforcement, that they
would non enforce or that they would essentially nullify a
lot of immigration laws. Trump and his team are taking
it in any other direction. They're looking at every statutory
(11:21):
authority that they currently have. The notice they're not going
to Congress on bendeddie because you can't trust a lot
of Republicans on immigration either, and you know that you've
seen it. But they're not going to Congress and saying, hey,
can you can we do a grand bargain and let's
negotiate this for the next nine months and figure out
how we're going to know. They're saying, what do we
already have the power to do? What authorities already exist
(11:45):
for us? And even if it hasn't been used in
a while, I'm going to tell you, has anyone ever
heard of someone who's here in a green card, who's
acting like a jerk who hates America being told see
you later, you're gone. I'd never heard of that before.
Turns out out you can do that. Turns out, when
you're a visitor, you do not, in fact have the
(12:05):
same constitutional or due process rights as US citizens do.
You are here by our permission and by our grace
as the American people, and I think Marco Rubio has
made that very clear. So there's a lot of moving
pieces here. And by the way, I haven't even gotten
into what's going on over the EPA. My man Lee
(12:25):
Zelden is running up the scoreboard for sanity over there already,
the EPA administrator. He is going to become the most
well known EPA administrator since Walter Peck and Ghostbusters. This
is going to be a fantastic slew of changes that
you see coming right now. It's underway, So I'm going
(12:48):
to unpack that EPA piece of it. Also, fascinating stuff
going on. I was talking about immigration enforcement and the interior,
but with the border and with the cartels too, I've
not forgotten about that piece of this. We have so
much to dive into I'm gonna tell you some things
going on with the cartel that you need to know about.
(13:08):
That show us Trump team is very serious about that
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government is starting to get the message. So we are
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(14:59):
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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
We'll be joined by our friend Carol Mark Wooz in
the third hour, and we'll talk to her a bit
more about Mahmood Khalil and the anti Semitic protests at
Columbia and how the Trump administration is handling all that.
But first up, this was my initial question about this,
(15:21):
because I think I'm not the only one here. I've
never heard of somebody being sent home or expelled from
this country for saying things that are anti American. There
are a lot of college professors that would fall into
that category, but those are American citizens generally speaking, right,
or at least I think so most of them are.
(15:41):
There's plenty of anti Americanism on the left, but if
you're a citizen, you're allowed to be You're allowed to
hate America. It's called the Democrat Party, right. I think
you have to have some problem, big problems with America.
But here we have center sorry I did it, Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, who is just laying it out
and he's saying, look, you're gonna be a jerk who
(16:01):
hates America. You don't have to be here, and we
can send you home. This is cut a play it.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
If you tell us when you apply, Hi, I'm trying
to get into the United States on a student visa.
I am a big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric
group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages,
that allows them to die in captivity, that returns more
bodies than live hostages. If you tell us that you
are in favor of a group like this, and if
you tell us when you apply for your visa, and
by the way, I intend to come to your country
(16:28):
as a student and rile up all kinds of anti
Jewish student anti Semitic activities. I intend to shut down
your universities. If you told us all these things when
you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa.
I hope we would. If you actually end up doing
that once you're in this country on such a visa,
we will revoke it. And if you end up having
a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as
a result of that visa while you're here in those activities,
(16:50):
We're going to kick you out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Okay, this is the authority that he has. It's on
the books. At least, that's my understanding having looked at
some of the statutes that are are floating around. So yeah,
you know, you say things and you act like a jerk.
You're a guest. The guest is sent home. There you go.
So I did not realize that they had quite as
(17:13):
much authority under the immigration laws as they do on
this issue. There is now Initially people are saying, oh,
but he you know, he did material support or he
committed a crime, Like, well, you can't really get in
trouble for a crime if no one charges you with
the crime, right, Like, that's where the no in this case.
It's any reason or no reason. It's like an at
will employee. It's like an at will visa situation. So
(17:36):
they're pulling it now. I will say, there will be
Democrats who will want to do the same thing down
the line, and we may not like who they want
to kick out of the country, but we shall see.
In the meantime, Rubio laid it out there. It's within
his authority, it's on the books. You're a guest, you
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the things you have to really keep in mind about
Frump two point zero about this new administration is that
(19:02):
part of the strategy is one of executive action blitzkrieg.
It is taking taking actions fast in many places and
making it really hard for the Democrat blob to keep
up to even really know what's going on. And that's
(19:26):
why I got to tell you doing the radio show
here with Clay day in and day out, that's what
it feels like for us just keeping up with all
the good thing to even bring you up to speed
on all that's going on with this White House is complicated.
I mean, it's look, we love our job, it's amazing,
but we got to stay abreast of all these different events.
(19:46):
But this is on purpose, right, because one thing Democrats
used to do was a flood the zone strategy. Oh
Trump wants to do this. It's horrible. He's hitler and
they just shout and shout and shout and try to
create some kind of momentum against it, try to stop
the momentum that Trump has. So that's why I'm sitting
(20:08):
here looking at what's going on with the Department of Education,
which has already lost almost half of its staff and
had offices shut down. And apparently that's just the beginning.
With the EPA under Lee Zelden. Big changes underway there.
Trying to keep up with all this. The moves are
that the Christy nome at DHS and Homan and the
(20:30):
White House is taking on immigration enforcement and deportations. It's
we're we got a lot of things going on here
right so trying to unpack them piece by piece. By
the way, breaking news speaking of how much stuff is
going on here. Right now as I talk to you,
protesters have occupied Oh boy, occupied Trump Tower and are
(20:53):
chanting freemch mood. The guy who's about to get the
boot from this country. And as we discussed and Secretary
of Rubio laid out, he doesn't have a right to
be here and we don't want to hear. So we're
allowed to say. The government's allowed to say go home.
But they're very upset. They have let me see, not
in our name, T shirts on opposing fascism is Jewish tradition,
(21:19):
fight Nazis not students. These are the signs that they
have in Trump Tower right now, reading them, I see
them on the screen. These people are nuts. These people
are nuts. Now this is the spectacle that they want
one thing. You can always tell at these lib protests.
They all for every person who's shouting and screaming and
(21:39):
you know their nose ring is about to fall off
or whatever. They've got people that are videotaping all of this,
you know, videotaping themselves because this is really about them.
This is really about the people that are there feeling
good about themselves. They're not really going to change anything anyway.
Put that aside. They all have matching T shirts on.
This looks very astrotar the whole thing. We will get
(22:02):
into this. I think a lot of this they're pretending
this is Jews for Wow, there is a sign that
is Jews for Palestinian freedom. Just let that one. Let
that one sink in for a second. Think about that
right now, holding up that sign. Given what's going on
over there, I can tell you this, there are no
(22:24):
Palestinians holding up stop murdering Jews in Israel signs. In fact,
there are no Palestinians and any numbers holding up signs
that say, hey, Jews are people too, Maybe we should
just learn to live with them. This is the reality
of this conflict. Oh boy. So anyway, Carol Markowitz, the
(22:45):
good news is she's joining us the third hour. She's
all over this issue. We'll talk to her about it.
You know her from the Clambach podcast network. I want
to talk go back to the border here for a second,
and I know I'm throwing a lot of things at you.
It's great that we have a pot cast of the show,
so if you want to go back and hear some
of the details, or if you had to do something
(23:05):
at the office. I love that some of you sneak
Clay and Buck show in your ear with like an
earbud when you're stuck in a cubicle somewhere, and it
reminds me of like Neo and the Matrix and the cubicles,
like we're part of the resistance with you, you know
what I'm saying. But if you had to step away
for a second because Lumberg wanted to make you write
some TPS reports, you can always go back to the
(23:27):
podcast that brings me to the border and some stuff
I want to talk to you about that actually is
not really in the news cycle, but I think is
very interesting. I think is a is a big deal
right now. First of all, you have a lot of
talks so far about how the border the illegal crossings
(23:50):
down ninety five percent. I think it is called it
roughly ninety five percent. So the human trafficking problem at
our borders les than two months has been solved by Trump.
Any other issue that I would talk to you about
that's of public public concern, now policy concern. If I
(24:11):
said this number is too high and you came to
me and said, well, the administration will bring it down
ninety five percent in the first sixty days, you would say,
come on, come on, not possible. They've done it ninety
five percent. Now, on the one hand, this is high
fives and congrats to the White House for getting it done,
(24:32):
and we're thankful that they're following through on this promise.
But there's also I have to balance that with the anger,
the rage of oh so Biden really did just make
it a wide open border the Biden regime. And I
said it all along, Clay and I have talked about
this with you all along, that they were choosing a
(24:54):
wide open border. But now we have the proof, because
if you can shut it down in sixty days for
it to be ten million plus in four years is
it was a policy, It was a strategy. They got
what they wanted. They betrayed the American people, They betrayed
our sovereignty. They betrayed the trust in them to enforce
(25:15):
the law. Whoever was signing things in Biden's name. So
all of that going on. But there's another thing that
has happened at the border too that you should definitely
know about. And it's early days in this one, but
the fentanyl seizures at the US border are showing it
(25:37):
is the lowest in at least three years. Already, it
has dropped. I was just looking this up, looking this
up last night and had tip young Grillo, who has
been one of the best reporters on the cartels and
what's going on with the drug trade in Mexico for
he's done this for twenty years. Seventy five percent drop
(25:58):
according to Mexico those figures. Now, you might say, oh, well,
Mexico wants to seem like they're being a good partner. Sure,
but we have a ninety five percent drop in human trafficking,
and the human trafficking and the narco trafficking go hand
in hand. I've explained this process before, so pardon me
if you've already heard this, but just really quickly, when
(26:20):
I was down at the border with Texas National Guard
back in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, or no, it was
twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I can't even remember now,
but at some years back it was under Biden. I'm sorry,
it was under Biden, so it would have been twenty
twenty one. I think when I was down there and
I was seeing what was going on, they would have
the human trafficking piece, the human trafficking component meaning actual
(26:45):
boatloads of women and children. Now, of course that also
you have to be We got our border patrol guys
who are they're look their moms, their dads, they're human beings.
They don't want a kid to drown. So they have
to be careful about the humanitarian mission now, and so
they cross with the human track. The cartel's the coyotes
(27:05):
do this on purpose. They send over like a flotilla
of women and children. And then all of our border
patrol resources they got to watch them, they got to
collect them, they got to process them, they got to,
you know, make sure that they're safe. And I saw this.
They had night vide. They gave us night vision, their
night vision to borrow, so we could see the night vision.
You see it down there, and then you look down
(27:26):
at the other end, we're on some high, pretty high ground.
You look down the other end, maybe a half mile
a mile out from where that happens, and guess what
speedboats meeting, a meeting, a pickup truck boom loaded with
vent and a loaded with drugs gone never to be
found because all the resources went to the human trafficking.
So these things go. I mean, that's just one example
(27:48):
of it. But these things go hand in hand. The
Trump administration looks like it has brought down fentanyl imports
into this country dramatically in sixty days, because like I said,
these things are synergistic. They work together, the human trafficking
piece and the drug trafficking piece, And that just shows
you not only are we dealing with illegal the illegal
(28:10):
immigration issue. Trump is dealing with it, his team is
dealing with it, but you also have a likely reduction
in people's ability to get fentanyl, and and you know
you're gonna bring down hopefully hopefully overdose deaths and everything
that goes with Remember overdose deaths, that's the leading indicator
(28:30):
of how much of this stuff is going on. But
there's you know, there's just family shattered, crimes committed, the
amount of destruction that fentanyl is doing to our society.
It's like a weapon of mass destruction, as we know.
And bringing this down, bringing this number under control is
a huge win for the Trump administration. That hasn't really
gotten as much attention yet, right, hasn't really gotten as
(28:53):
much attention, So I think that's really interesting. Something else
I wanted to note, Mexico is waking up to the
fact that Trump is not playing games. He's serious about
this stuff. He's serious about using the threat of tariffs
to get greater cooperation from our partners at the border.
And there seems to be some indications that Mexico might
(29:18):
be getting ready for some major actions on the cartel.
We've discussed this a little bit in the past. I
don't know how many of you have even heard about this,
but this is Attorney General Pam Bondi. This was from
the Office Public Affairs in the DOJ. The United States
(29:39):
took custody. This was just a couple of weeks. This
is just the last couple of weeks of twenty nine
cartel bosses, I mean, big names in the cartel world.
We took them from Mexico. We took custody of them.
Claudia Sinbaum, who is the President of Mexico, has said,
(29:59):
you know know what, Yeah, I'm you want them, you
got I'm I'm sending them even in cases it seems
so far. I think some of this is now going
to be adjudicated in the Mexican court system whatever that means.
Whole other conversation. Uh, but they've been taken into US
custody of these drug cartel and I'm talking about from
(30:19):
Sinaloa Cartel Jalisco and Nuevo Generacion Cartel c CJ and
g Noweva Familia, Michuacana Cartel Digulfa, the Gulf Cartel, I
mean the big names, big bosses from the big name
cartels in the last two weeks have been sent to
America to our federal prison system. The facility I think
(30:42):
it's the facility in Brooklyn that's near the Navy. Is
that the MCG I think it is. There's the Manhattan one,
which that's the one where Epstein quote killed himself, put
that aside, and then there's the one in Brooklyn. I
think the one in Brooklyn now has p Diddy. I
think it has it has Sam Bankman freed it had
(31:05):
and now it has one of the top or a
couple of the top cartel guys that Mexico has had
in custody, I mean big, big names, and they're taking
them or they've they've extradited them to US already without
going through the process of making sure this is my
understanding of it, uh that they can't be executed here.
(31:29):
Some of these guys are wanted for ordering dozens really
realistically hundreds of murders some of these individuals, and they're
now in US custody and it's the Trump administration now
that's going to be bringing charges. So some of these
cartel guys who thought, oh, I'll ride it out with
this Mexican government and you know, eventually I'll either break
(31:51):
out or I'll pay somebody off and I'll get out
early or whatever. Now some of these guys are facing
possibly the death penalty because there were there were the
Pam Bondi's. You know, Jay was not going to give
any concessions to the Mexican government. Oh no, we won't.
They were extradited without those assurances. So this is you
see how that is an escalation that is really interesting
(32:12):
for where things are right now. Are you know, are
we going to start going in UH with more more
resources against the cartels. Like I said, human trafficking down,
sentinel down. There are reports that we are flying drones
just for surveillance purposes now, more than people have seen
in the past over Mexican airspace. I can neither confirm
(32:33):
or deny, right, I don't know, but there are reports
about this, like we might be gearing up for something.
So just remember that I told you about this because
some of these pieces. The fact that you've had this
unprecedented mass extradition of cartel bosses to the US facilities,
federal facilities in Houston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio.
(32:57):
They have dispersed the cartel leadership to US prison where
they ain't getting out. Something's going on here. They're getting ready,
They're getting ready for some kind of a move. This
Trump team is not messing around, all right. How awesome
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get your podcasts. We are seeing arrests happen right now
at Trump Tower in New York. So these lunatics are
already getting taken off in the patty wagons. I'm irish
by heritage. I can say the patty wagon. Now we've
(35:08):
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Speaker 4 (35:18):
It, Hey, Buck, This is JM from Utah love your show,
You and Clay's show. Yesterday, you mentioned you discovered something
about classical music while in Nashville, Tennessee. I was wondering
if you could expound a little bit more on that,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So I was walking past a McDonald's and I walked
past it several times over the course of my stay
in Nashville, and it was blasting opera. I think it
was Rigoletto. It was blasting opera, and I was like,
McDonald's blasting opera. That's cool from speakers outside, and I
(35:58):
really I was like, well, hold on, it's not just
like one guy who likes opera. This must be a thing.
They play this music because the drug addicts and the
crazies stay away from the parking lot in the vicinity
because of the classical music they play, Mozart, they play opera.
Because I asked some locals, I said, is that what's
(36:20):
going on? Because I had heard about this in some
subways and things before. It's remarkable, So I love it.
I'm like, they're playing beautiful you walk down the street,
they're playing beautiful music. Lease. I love classical music, especially flute,
as you know, and they're playing this music and it
keeps away people who are doing drugs and you know,
panhandling and harassing people because they just don't like the
(36:42):
classical music. I you know, who would have thought that,
you know, Rigoletto would scare people away. To me, I
was like ready to start dancing around
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. And I'm telling you we got
a lot to get into today. Big things happening, lots
of news. Are Man Clay Travis enjoying a much deserve
vacation with the fam. He's with the boys and Laura
out west. I think they're skiing, having a great time.
(00:22):
He sends you all high fives and hugs. He'll be
back on Monday. We have a bunch of things to
get into. First of all, more on the aftermath of
the detention and imminent deportation of Palestinian Slash pro Hamas
activist Mahmood Khalil. We've gotten some clarification from at least
(00:46):
I think it's a clarification. There is clarity now from
I keep wanting to say Senator Secretary of State Marco
Rubio on just exactly what's going on with that and
what is the authority that he is us. We got clarity.
I asked for it. I'll tell you about that in
just a little bit, uh Politico with an exclusive. I
(01:07):
think you could call this a maybe a trial balloon,
a testing the waters moment. Guess who is skipping a
possible Senate run on the Democrat side in Michigan because
he has his eyes on a bigger prize the White House. Oh,
some of you have guessed, but I'm gonna keep you
(01:29):
on the edge of your seats. And if you're wondering,
like who is it, Oh, I'll tell you because I
think if this is the case, things are looking really
good for the Republicans in twenty twenty eight. And we've
got a lot more to get into. You want to
throw out there for you eight hundred two two two,
(01:50):
eight to two on the phones. Let's get some calls
in today, Let's talk, let's chat. Want to hear from
you all over the country. Oh, updates on Rosie O'Donnell.
Rosie O'Donnell, and she has moved to Ireland. As we
talked about yesterday, Trump I believe has weighed in on this,
and we shall discuss that. We've also got a bunch
(02:10):
more on immigration. Look, the economy stuff is. You know,
yesterday we were going deep on what's happening with tariffs,
what's happening with the stock markets, and the day before that,
so we'll touch on a bit more of it today.
But I really think made the case yesterday that needs
to be made right now, which is everybody just needs
to chill. Trump knows what he's doing. Things are going
(02:32):
to get better quickly, but it's not an overnight process.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and we will we
will get there. Okay. I want to start with immigration
today actually, and what is going on here? First of all,
there is this New York City mayoral candidate was at
(02:55):
the New York State Capitol in Albany. And this guy's
name is Zarron Mamdani. So Zoran Mamdani rushed after borders
are Tom Holman, who is I I just think is
a superstar in this Trump administration. You know, I felt
the way all along. Somebody who knows the subject matter
(03:17):
and is a warrior for the law, for sovereignty, for Americanism. Uh.
He knows the stuff backwards and forwards. So this this
guy who's running for mayor against really now Cuomo runs
at home and starts shouting at him, just just so
you know, this is the kind of Democrat who's looking
to lead the biggest city in America these days. Play
(03:38):
cut one. Tom Holman just screaming. He's on video he's
yelling at Tom Holman. Well, Tom Holman does not care.
In fact, if anything, I think Tom was probably cracking
(03:58):
a smile. Some Democrat activist slash politician is shouting at
him about all this. Here's why they're so upset. There's
a few things. As you know, the Mahmoud Khalil situation
has gotten the left very riled up right now. This
is I think a bad place for them to be.
(04:19):
This is the hill they want to fight on. Is
a guy who is very who was pro not just Hamas,
but was the stuff that this guy has said about
destroying Western civilization. I mean, this guy is is not
somebody that we want in the country, and that I've
been clear on all along. We'll get into Marco Rubio
(04:39):
here in a little bit establishing exactly what the authority
is to deport him. But here, here's why this matters
a lot. Here's why the situation of the borders are
and it's going to be Christy Nome as well at DHS. Look,
she's doing a great job so far. Holme is doing
a great job there following through on the promises of
(05:01):
the Trump campaign and of the Trump movement. But here's
the issue we've had in the past, these sanctuary cities, right,
and the Democrat controlled states that decide that they're going
to play all kinds of games to make it as
hard as possible for federal law to be enforced. No
one disagrees, and this is clear or this is important.
(05:22):
No one disagrees that the federal laws that Tom Holman
is trying to enforce aren't actually federal law. You'll notice
there's no movement among Democrats in Congress to change the
laws so that these individuals would be at least they're
not open about this, so that these individuals would no
longer be deportable. They want to blanket mass amnesty, right.
(05:45):
They're not willing to go in there and say hey,
and they don't have the power right now anyway, because
they have to lie to you. The law is that
they don't want these illegals here. They do. They want
the illegals here, but if they're too open about that,
they lose power, as just happened in this election. So
what do we do about this? Tom Holbman has an idea,
and Governor Kathy Hochel maybe finding out the hard way
(06:09):
this is cut too. He's just saying Look, if you
continue to obstruct federal law enforcement in the state of
New York, there's gonna be real problems for you.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Play too, you know he's got Governor Holko stood on
national TV after NYPD officers were assaulted, saying she thinks
criminal alims should be deported. She said the same thing
after a young woman was burned up alive on a
subway by l Allen. So she says, yeah, criminal aliens
should be deported. However, when Mayor Adams meet from me
and wants to help us arrest criminal anlads get us
back on Rikers Island.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
She goes down and try to fire them. She's got
the green light in law where ICE officers and CBP
officers can't get can't get DMV data when they pull
car over here. They don't even know who the article.
They can't get data to DMV because she locked them out.
And if she says they need it WARNT to get
that data. And if they get the war get that data,
what's New York doing? They notify the bad guy that
we're investigating them. So I'm up here calling her up
(06:59):
for a Saints policies.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Look, this is critical we are getting at the heart
of the real problem here with immigration enforcement, which is
that the sanctuary states and city and cities are decided,
have decided that the federal law does not matter and
they will not work with the federal law enforcement officers.
(07:23):
In fact, they will hide information from them. No one's
even saying, hey, you have to be deputized, although no,
actually shouldn't say no one. That hasn't been the case
in the past, though, Hey, you have to be deputized
and be a part of our federal enforcement efforts. Right,
there has to be some agreement on that. You can't
(07:44):
just a commandeer if you will state troopers, as a
federal law enforcement officer said, well, you're now doing this
for us, Right, there's obvious separation of powers state and
federal that come into play. But what he's talking about,
what Tom Homan is laying out there is that New
York and I'm sure it's true in California and a
bunch of other states as well, but New York is
(08:04):
the one I'm most focused on right now, will not
get will not give data from the d m V
to the federal federal law enforcement authorities because it's a
state d MV. Right, every state has their own Department
of Motor Vehicles and New York will not give access
to federal law enforcement in the prison systems. In the
(08:27):
prison systems think about this, They're like, oh, no, you can't.
There's an illegal who you know, who's we picked up
for for you know, rape, You're you're not allowed to
come in and then and then take him into custody
and deport him. Well, hold on a second, why, Ah,
we're forcing their hand. And this is what Trump and
(08:49):
the team and you know Steven Miller, who has been
brilliant on immigration issues all along, another warrior. I mean
between between Homean and uh and Miller, you've got two
guys who have this issue so squared away. And there's
more coming. And this is the good news. And this
is why you're going to see things heating up and
Democrats are going to get even more freaked out. CNN
(09:11):
reporting that the Trump administration is expected to invoke the
Alien Enemies Act of seventeen to ninety eight, a sweeping
wartime authority, in the coming days. This is CNN reporting,
and this is designed to speed up the President's mass
deportation pledge. This is where things are going to start
(09:33):
to get really interesting. Trump and his team are instead
of trying to get Democrats to be honest and fair minded,
they're either using leverage over them, things like federal funding
to sanctuary cities. They're using the levers that they have
to get cooperation. This will, all, of course, I'm sure,
(09:54):
get tied up in courts at some point, but I
think the Trump team is on firm ground with his
and they are using authorities that a lot of people
haven't really spent much, people don't even really know or
there or have not been willing to use in the past.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And this this reminds me of And we'll get the
the Marco Rubio cut here where he taught in a
few minutes where he talks about how is it that
he can just say mood Khalil needs to leave, and
I just wanted an explanation of it so we're all clear.
He gives the explanation. I will play it for you.
But Trump in the executive branch actually has a lot
(10:36):
of authority over immigration enforcement. You know, think about it
this way Biden was And when I say Biden, you
know I mean the Biden regime, right, So you don't
have to remind me that it wasn't really Biden and
that you know, he was taking naps and drinking from
a sippy cup and they were using the auto pen
when he was asleep. I know, we all know, right,
Even Democrats know that now, or at least they've been
(10:58):
forced to face up to it. But the Biden regime
decided that immigration laws would just not be enforced. They
decided that through their executive authority of enforcement, that they
would non enforce or that they would essentially nullify a
lot of immigration laws. Trump and his team are taking
it in any other direction. They're looking at every statutory
(11:21):
authority that they currently have. The notice they're not going
to Congress on bendeddie because you can't trust a lot
of Republicans on immigration either, and you know that you've
seen it. But they're not going to Congress and saying, hey,
can you can we do a grand bargain and let's
negotiate this for the next nine months and figure out
how we're going to know. They're saying, what do we
already have the power to do? What authorities already exist
(11:45):
for us? And even if it hasn't been used in
a while, I'm going to tell you, has anyone ever
heard of someone who's here in a green card, who's
acting like a jerk who hates America being told see
you later, you're gone. I'd never heard of that before.
Turns out out you can do that. Turns out, when
you're a visitor, you do not, in fact have the
(12:05):
same constitutional or due process rights as US citizens do.
You are here by our permission and by our grace
as the American people, and I think Marco Rubio has
made that very clear. So there's a lot of moving
pieces here. And by the way, I haven't even gotten
into what's going on over the EPA. My man Lee
(12:25):
Zelden is running up the scoreboard for sanity over there already,
the EPA administrator. He is going to become the most
well known EPA administrator since Walter Peck and Ghostbusters. This
is going to be a fantastic slew of changes that
you see coming right now. It's underway, So I'm going
(12:48):
to unpack that EPA piece of it. Also, fascinating stuff
going on. I was talking about immigration enforcement and the interior,
but with the border and with the cartels too, I've
not forgotten about that piece of this. We have so
much to dive into I'm gonna tell you some things
going on with the cartel that you need to know about.
(13:08):
That show us Trump team is very serious about that
as well, and Mexico is starting to get the Mexican
government is starting to get the message. So we are
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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
We'll be joined by our friend Carol Mark Wooz in
the third hour, and we'll talk to her a bit
more about Mahmood Khalil and the anti Semitic protests at
Columbia and how the Trump administration is handling all that.
But first up, this was my initial question about this,
(15:21):
because I think I'm not the only one here. I've
never heard of somebody being sent home or expelled from
this country for saying things that are anti American. There
are a lot of college professors that would fall into
that category, but those are American citizens generally speaking, right,
or at least I think so most of them are.
(15:41):
There's plenty of anti Americanism on the left, but if
you're a citizen, you're allowed to be You're allowed to
hate America. It's called the Democrat Party, right. I think
you have to have some problem, big problems with America.
But here we have center sorry I did it, Secretary
of State Marco Rubio, who is just laying it out
and he's saying, look, you're gonna be a jerk who
(16:01):
hates America. You don't have to be here, and we
can send you home. This is cut a play it.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
If you tell us when you apply, Hi, I'm trying
to get into the United States on a student visa.
I am a big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric
group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages,
that allows them to die in captivity, that returns more
bodies than live hostages. If you tell us that you
are in favor of a group like this, and if
you tell us when you apply for your visa, and
by the way, I intend to come to your country
(16:28):
as a student and rile up all kinds of anti
Jewish student anti Semitic activities. I intend to shut down
your universities. If you told us all these things when
you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa.
I hope we would. If you actually end up doing
that once you're in this country on such a visa,
we will revoke it. And if you end up having
a green card, not citizenship, but a green card as
a result of that visa while you're here in those activities,
(16:50):
We're going to kick you out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Okay, this is the authority that he has. It's on
the books. At least, that's my understanding having looked at
some of the statutes that are are floating around. So yeah,
you know, you say things and you act like a jerk.
You're a guest. The guest is sent home. There you go.
So I did not realize that they had quite as
(17:13):
much authority under the immigration laws as they do on
this issue. There is now Initially people are saying, oh,
but he you know, he did material support or he
committed a crime, Like, well, you can't really get in
trouble for a crime if no one charges you with
the crime, right, Like, that's where the no in this case.
It's any reason or no reason. It's like an at
will employee. It's like an at will visa situation. So
(17:36):
they're pulling it now. I will say, there will be
Democrats who will want to do the same thing down
the line, and we may not like who they want
to kick out of the country, but we shall see.
In the meantime, Rubio laid it out there. It's within
his authority, it's on the books. You're a guest, you
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(19:02):
part of the strategy is one of executive action blitzkrieg.
It is taking taking actions fast in many places and
making it really hard for the Democrat blob to keep
up to even really know what's going on. And that's
(19:26):
why I got to tell you doing the radio show
here with Clay day in and day out, that's what
it feels like for us just keeping up with all
the good thing to even bring you up to speed
on all that's going on with this White House is complicated.
I mean, it's look, we love our job, it's amazing,
but we got to stay abreast of all these different events.
(19:46):
But this is on purpose, right, because one thing Democrats
used to do was a flood the zone strategy. Oh
Trump wants to do this. It's horrible. He's hitler and
they just shout and shout and shout and try to
create some kind of momentum against it, try to stop
the momentum that Trump has. So that's why I'm sitting
(20:08):
here looking at what's going on with the Department of Education,
which has already lost almost half of its staff and
had offices shut down. And apparently that's just the beginning.
With the EPA under Lee Zelden. Big changes underway there.
Trying to keep up with all this. The moves are
that the Christy nome at DHS and Homan and the
(20:30):
White House is taking on immigration enforcement and deportations. It's
we're we got a lot of things going on here
right so trying to unpack them piece by piece. By
the way, breaking news speaking of how much stuff is
going on here. Right now as I talk to you,
protesters have occupied Oh boy, occupied Trump Tower and are
(20:53):
chanting freemch mood. The guy who's about to get the
boot from this country. And as we discussed and Secretary
of Rubio laid out, he doesn't have a right to
be here and we don't want to hear. So we're
allowed to say. The government's allowed to say go home.
But they're very upset. They have let me see, not
in our name, T shirts on opposing fascism is Jewish tradition,
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fight Nazis not students. These are the signs that they
have in Trump Tower right now, reading them, I see
them on the screen. These people are nuts. These people
are nuts. Now this is the spectacle that they want
one thing. You can always tell at these lib protests.
They all for every person who's shouting and screaming and
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you know their nose ring is about to fall off
or whatever. They've got people that are videotaping all of this,
you know, videotaping themselves because this is really about them.
This is really about the people that are there feeling
good about themselves. They're not really going to change anything anyway.
Put that aside. They all have matching T shirts on.
This looks very astrotar the whole thing. We will get
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into this. I think a lot of this they're pretending
this is Jews for Wow, there is a sign that
is Jews for Palestinian freedom. Just let that one. Let
that one sink in for a second. Think about that
right now, holding up that sign. Given what's going on
over there, I can tell you this, there are no
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Palestinians holding up stop murdering Jews in Israel signs. In fact,
there are no Palestinians and any numbers holding up signs
that say, hey, Jews are people too, Maybe we should
just learn to live with them. This is the reality
of this conflict. Oh boy. So anyway, Carol Markowitz, the
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good news is she's joining us the third hour. She's
all over this issue. We'll talk to her about it.
You know her from the Clambach podcast network. I want
to talk go back to the border here for a second,
and I know I'm throwing a lot of things at you.
It's great that we have a pot cast of the show,
so if you want to go back and hear some
of the details, or if you had to do something
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at the office. I love that some of you sneak
Clay and Buck show in your ear with like an
earbud when you're stuck in a cubicle somewhere, and it
reminds me of like Neo and the Matrix and the cubicles,
like we're part of the resistance with you, you know
what I'm saying. But if you had to step away
for a second because Lumberg wanted to make you write
some TPS reports, you can always go back to the
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podcast that brings me to the border and some stuff
I want to talk to you about that actually is
not really in the news cycle, but I think is
very interesting. I think is a is a big deal
right now. First of all, you have a lot of
talks so far about how the border the illegal crossings
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down ninety five percent. I think it is called it
roughly ninety five percent. So the human trafficking problem at
our borders les than two months has been solved by Trump.
Any other issue that I would talk to you about
that's of public public concern, now policy concern. If I
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said this number is too high and you came to
me and said, well, the administration will bring it down
ninety five percent in the first sixty days, you would say,
come on, come on, not possible. They've done it ninety
five percent. Now, on the one hand, this is high
fives and congrats to the White House for getting it done,
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and we're thankful that they're following through on this promise.
But there's also I have to balance that with the anger,
the rage of oh so Biden really did just make
it a wide open border the Biden regime. And I
said it all along, Clay and I have talked about
this with you all along, that they were choosing a
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wide open border. But now we have the proof, because
if you can shut it down in sixty days for
it to be ten million plus in four years is
it was a policy, It was a strategy. They got
what they wanted. They betrayed the American people, They betrayed
our sovereignty. They betrayed the trust in them to enforce
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the law. Whoever was signing things in Biden's name. So
all of that going on. But there's another thing that
has happened at the border too that you should definitely
know about. And it's early days in this one, but
the fentanyl seizures at the US border are showing it
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is the lowest in at least three years. Already, it
has dropped. I was just looking this up, looking this
up last night and had tip young Grillo, who has
been one of the best reporters on the cartels and
what's going on with the drug trade in Mexico for
he's done this for twenty years. Seventy five percent drop
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according to Mexico those figures. Now, you might say, oh, well,
Mexico wants to seem like they're being a good partner. Sure,
but we have a ninety five percent drop in human trafficking,
and the human trafficking and the narco trafficking go hand
in hand. I've explained this process before, so pardon me
if you've already heard this, but just really quickly, when
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I was down at the border with Texas National Guard
back in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, or no, it was
twenty twenty, twenty twenty one. I can't even remember now,
but at some years back it was under Biden. I'm sorry,
it was under Biden, so it would have been twenty
twenty one. I think when I was down there and
I was seeing what was going on, they would have
the human trafficking piece, the human trafficking component meaning actual
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boatloads of women and children. Now, of course that also
you have to be We got our border patrol guys
who are they're look their moms, their dads, they're human beings.
They don't want a kid to drown. So they have
to be careful about the humanitarian mission now, and so
they cross with the human track. The cartel's the coyotes
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do this on purpose. They send over like a flotilla
of women and children. And then all of our border
patrol resources they got to watch them, they got to
collect them, they got to process them, they got to,
you know, make sure that they're safe. And I saw this.
They had night vide. They gave us night vision, their
night vision to borrow, so we could see the night vision.
You see it down there, and then you look down
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at the other end, we're on some high, pretty high ground.
You look down the other end, maybe a half mile
a mile out from where that happens, and guess what
speedboats meeting, a meeting, a pickup truck boom loaded with
vent and a loaded with drugs gone never to be
found because all the resources went to the human trafficking.
So these things go. I mean, that's just one example
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of it. But these things go hand in hand. The
Trump administration looks like it has brought down fentanyl imports
into this country dramatically in sixty days, because like I said,
these things are synergistic. They work together, the human trafficking
piece and the drug trafficking piece, And that just shows
you not only are we dealing with illegal the illegal
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immigration issue. Trump is dealing with it, his team is
dealing with it, but you also have a likely reduction
in people's ability to get fentanyl, and and you know
you're gonna bring down hopefully hopefully overdose deaths and everything
that goes with Remember overdose deaths, that's the leading indicator
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of how much of this stuff is going on. But
there's you know, there's just family shattered, crimes committed, the
amount of destruction that fentanyl is doing to our society.
It's like a weapon of mass destruction, as we know.
And bringing this down, bringing this number under control is
a huge win for the Trump administration. That hasn't really
gotten as much attention yet, right, hasn't really gotten as
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much attention, So I think that's really interesting. Something else
I wanted to note, Mexico is waking up to the
fact that Trump is not playing games. He's serious about
this stuff. He's serious about using the threat of tariffs
to get greater cooperation from our partners at the border.
And there seems to be some indications that Mexico might
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be getting ready for some major actions on the cartel.
We've discussed this a little bit in the past. I
don't know how many of you have even heard about this,
but this is Attorney General Pam Bondi. This was from
the Office Public Affairs in the DOJ. The United States
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took custody. This was just a couple of weeks. This
is just the last couple of weeks of twenty nine
cartel bosses, I mean, big names in the cartel world.
We took them from Mexico. We took custody of them.
Claudia Sinbaum, who is the President of Mexico, has said,
(29:59):
you know know what, Yeah, I'm you want them, you
got I'm I'm sending them even in cases it seems
so far. I think some of this is now going
to be adjudicated in the Mexican court system whatever that means.
Whole other conversation. Uh, but they've been taken into US
custody of these drug cartel and I'm talking about from
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Sinaloa Cartel Jalisco and Nuevo Generacion Cartel c CJ and
g Noweva Familia, Michuacana Cartel Digulfa, the Gulf Cartel, I
mean the big names, big bosses from the big name
cartels in the last two weeks have been sent to
America to our federal prison system. The facility I think
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it's the facility in Brooklyn that's near the Navy. Is
that the MCG I think it is. There's the Manhattan one,
which that's the one where Epstein quote killed himself, put
that aside, and then there's the one in Brooklyn. I
think the one in Brooklyn now has p Diddy. I
think it has it has Sam Bankman freed it had
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and now it has one of the top or a
couple of the top cartel guys that Mexico has had
in custody, I mean big, big names, and they're taking
them or they've they've extradited them to US already without
going through the process of making sure this is my
understanding of it, uh that they can't be executed here.
(31:29):
Some of these guys are wanted for ordering dozens really
realistically hundreds of murders some of these individuals, and they're
now in US custody and it's the Trump administration now
that's going to be bringing charges. So some of these
cartel guys who thought, oh, I'll ride it out with
this Mexican government and you know, eventually I'll either break
(31:51):
out or I'll pay somebody off and I'll get out
early or whatever. Now some of these guys are facing
possibly the death penalty because there were there were the
Pam Bondi's. You know, Jay was not going to give
any concessions to the Mexican government. Oh no, we won't.
They were extradited without those assurances. So this is you
see how that is an escalation that is really interesting
(32:12):
for where things are right now. Are you know, are
we going to start going in UH with more more
resources against the cartels. Like I said, human trafficking down,
sentinel down. There are reports that we are flying drones
just for surveillance purposes now, more than people have seen
in the past over Mexican airspace. I can neither confirm
(32:33):
or deny, right, I don't know, but there are reports
about this, like we might be gearing up for something.
So just remember that I told you about this because
some of these pieces. The fact that you've had this
unprecedented mass extradition of cartel bosses to the US facilities,
federal facilities in Houston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio.
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They have dispersed the cartel leadership to US prison where
they ain't getting out. Something's going on here. They're getting ready,
They're getting ready for some kind of a move. This
Trump team is not messing around, all right. How awesome
is it to come home after a long day to
the delicious smell in the kitchen, especially when it's a steak. Look,
Kerry is an amazing cook. It's my fault for eating
(33:19):
too much of her delicious food. But you know it
wasn't what I was trying to cut some LB's the
fact that my wife makes amazing food was not helping,
including amazing homemade ice cream. Put that aside. We cook
a lot of steak here, and actually tonight is going
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(34:45):
Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and
Buck podcast beat on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. We are seeing arrests happen right now
at Trump Tower in New York. So these lunatics are
already getting taken off in the patty wagons. I'm irish
by heritage. I can say the patty wagon. Now we've
(35:08):
got a couple of talkbacks. Remember talkback is a great
feature iHeart app. Pressed the microphone at the Clay and
Buck page. Send us a voicemail. Basically, it's fantastic. A
a in the talkback here, play.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
It, Hey, Buck, This is JM from Utah love your show,
You and Clay's show. Yesterday, you mentioned you discovered something
about classical music while in Nashville, Tennessee. I was wondering
if you could expound a little bit more on that,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
So I was walking past a McDonald's and I walked
past it several times over the course of my stay
in Nashville, and it was blasting opera. I think it
was Rigoletto. It was blasting opera, and I was like,
McDonald's blasting opera. That's cool from speakers outside, and I
(35:58):
really I was like, well, hold on, it's not just
like one guy who likes opera. This must be a thing.
They play this music because the drug addicts and the
crazies stay away from the parking lot in the vicinity
because of the classical music they play, Mozart, they play opera.
Because I asked some locals, I said, is that what's
(36:20):
going on? Because I had heard about this in some
subways and things before. It's remarkable, So I love it.
I'm like, they're playing beautiful you walk down the street,
they're playing beautiful music. Lease. I love classical music, especially flute,
as you know, and they're playing this music and it
keeps away people who are doing drugs and you know,
panhandling and harassing people because they just don't like the
(36:42):
classical music. I you know, who would have thought that,
you know, Rigoletto would scare people away. To me, I
was like ready to start dancing around
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