March 13, 2025 • 48 mins
1.) We got clarity on Mahmoud Khalil
-NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
-Border Czar Tom Homan
-Politico with a WH exclusive
-Everybody needs to chill, Trump knows what he's doing
-CNN and fake news
-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
2.) The Democrat Blob
-The flood-the-zone strategy.
-Protesters occupy Trump Tower.
-Trump brings down fentanyl imports in 60 days.
-Cartel extraditions
3.) Education Cuts Are SMART
-Education Secretary Linda McMahon explains department cuts.
-How the NYT writes about slashing budgets and what that would do.
-Buck's advice to Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence.
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Episode Transcript
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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 Tosay Senator Secretary of State Marco Rubio
on just exactly what's going on with that and what
is the authority that he is using. 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
(02:10):
bunch 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 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.
(03:37):
Play cut one. Tom Holman just screaming. He's on video
he love I's yelling at Tom Holman. Well, Tom Holman
does not care. In fact, if anything, I think Tom
(03:58):
was probably cracking 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
(04:18):
them to be. 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
(04:38):
into Marco Rubio 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, Holmes, doing a great job there, following through
(05:01):
on the promises of 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
(05:21):
or this is important. 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
(05:43):
blanket mass amnesty, right. 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 Holman has an idea, and Governor Kathy Hochel maybe
(06:07):
finding out the hard way 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 going to
be real problems for you. Play too, you know he got.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
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 Newley Allen. So she says, yeah,
criminal aliens should be deported. However, when Mayor Adams meet
to me and wants to help us arrest criminal alands,
get us back on Rikers Island, she goes down and
try to FIRELM. She's got the green white in law
(06:41):
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 a war to get that data. And if
they get the war to get that data works New York,
do they notify the bad guy that we're investigating him.
So I'm up there calling her up for 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 I 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
with 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.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, hold on a second, why, ah, we're forcing their hand.
And this is what Trump and 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
(09:05):
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 reporting that the Trump
administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of
seventy to ninety eight, a sweeping wartime authority, in the
coming days. This is CNN reporting, and this is designed
(09:27):
to speed up the President's mass deportation pledge. This is
where things are going to start 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.
(09:48):
They're using the levers that they have to get cooperation.
This will, all, of course, I'm sure, 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
(10:09):
been willing to use in the past. Uh. 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
(10:32):
Trump in the executive branch actually has a lot 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
(10:55):
Democrats know that now, or at least they've been 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
not enforce or that they would essentially nullify a lot
of immigration laws. Trump and his team are taking it
(11:18):
any other direction. They're looking at every statutory 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
(11:39):
we're going to know. They're saying, what do we already
have the power to do? What authorities already exist 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
(12:00):
out you can do that. Turns out when you're a visitor,
you do not, in fact have the 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
(12:20):
the way, I haven't even gotten into what's going on
over the EPA. My man Lee 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
(12:46):
right now. It's underway, So I'm going 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. That
(13:09):
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 racked in stacks.
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
This was my initial question about this 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
(15:26):
I think so most of them are. 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 cent sorry I did it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
who is just laying it out and he's saying, look,
(15:46):
you be you're gonna be a jerk who hates America.
You don't have to be here, and we can send
you home. This has cut eight play it.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
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 barrack
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
(16:14):
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.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I hope we would.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
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, we're going to kick
you out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
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 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
(17:00):
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
(17:22):
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.
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It is taking taking actions fast in many places and
making it really hard for the Democrat blob to keep
(19:09):
up to even really know what's going on. And that's
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 things. 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,
(19:29):
but we got to stay abreast of all these different events.
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
(19:51):
the momentum that Trump has. So that's why I'm sitting
here looking at what's going on with the Department of Education,
which has already lost almost half of its staff and
had off is 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
(20:11):
that the Christy Nome at DHS and Homan and the
White House is taking on immigration enforcement and deportations. It's
We're We've 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
(20:35):
oh boy, occupied Trump Tower and are chanting freemch mood.
The guy who's about to get the boot from this country.
And as we discussed and Secretary of Rubia 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.
(20:57):
They have let me see, not in our new t
shirts on opposing fascism is Jewish tradition, 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
(21:17):
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 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
(21:39):
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
astro turf. The whole thing. We will get 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
(22:01):
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 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
(22:23):
live with them. This is the reality of this conflict.
Oh boy. So anyway, Carol Markowitz, the 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 clam Buck podcast network. I want to talk go
back to the border here for a second. And I
(22:43):
know I'm throwing a lot of things at you. It's
great that we have a podcast of the show. So
if you want to go back and hear some of
the details, or if you had to do something at
the office. I love that some of you sneak Clay
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of like Neo and the Matrix and the cubicles, like
we're part of the resistance with you, you know what
(23:05):
I'm saying. But if you had to step away for
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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.
(23:28):
First of all, you have a lot of talks so
far about how the border the illegal crossings down ninety
five percent. I think it is called it roughly ninety
five percent. So the human trafficking problem at our border
in less than two months has been solved by Trump.
(23:49):
Any other issue that I would talk to you about
that's of public public concern now policy concern. If I
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
(24:10):
five percent. Now, on the one hand, this is high
fives and congrats to the White House for getting it done,
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
(24:31):
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
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
(24:54):
what they wanted. They betrayed the American people, they betrayed
our sovereignty, they betrayed the tr trust in them to
enforce 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,
(25:17):
but the fentanyl seizures at the US border are showing
it 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
(25:38):
and what's going on with the drug trade in Mexico
for He's done this for twenty years. Seventy five percent
drop according to Mexico's 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
(25:59):
in hand. End. I've explained this process before, so pardon
me if you've already heard this, but just really quickly.
When 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 in 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
(26:23):
I was seeing what was going on. They would have
the human trafficking piece, the human trafficking component, meaning actual
boatloads of women and children. Now, of course that also
you have to be We got our border patrol guys
who are there, look their moms, their dads, their human beings.
They don't want at kid to drown. So they have
to be careful about the humanitarian mission now, and so
(26:47):
they cross with the the cartels. The coyotes do this
on purpose. They send over like a flotilla of women
and children. And then all of our border patrol resorts
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 night vision. You
(27:09):
see it down there, and then you look down at
the other end. We're on some pretty high ground. You
look down the other end, maybe a half mile a
mile out from where that happens, and guess what speedboats
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
(27:32):
things go I mean, that's just one example 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
(27:54):
not only are we dealing with illegal the illegal 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 you know you're gonna bring down,
hopefully hopefully overdose deaths and everything that goes with Remember
(28:14):
overdose deaths, that's the leading indicator 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,
(28:39):
hasn't really gotten as 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 there be
(29:00):
some indications that Mexico might 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
(29:21):
in the DOJ. The United States 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
(29:44):
President of Mexico, has said, you know what I'm you
want them, you got, 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 com conversation. Uh, but they've
been taken into US custody. These drug cartel and I'm
(30:05):
talking about from 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
(30:28):
facility I think 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
(30:50):
Bankman freed it had 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 aims,
and they're taking them or they've they've extradited them to
US already without going through the process of making sure,
(31:10):
this is my understanding of it, that they can't be
executed here. 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
(31:33):
out with this Mexican government and you know, eventually I'll
either break 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 Pambondi's DJ 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
(31:55):
how that that is an escalation that is really interesting
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
(32:17):
in the past over Mexican airspace. I can neither confirm
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,
(32:38):
federal facilities in Houston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio.
They have dispersed the cartel leadership to US prisons where
they ain't getting out. Something's going on here. They're gett
they're getting ready. They're getting ready for some kind of
a move. This Trump team is not messing around. All right?
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
We've been talking already about the border, immigration, the protest
of lunatics in Trump Tower. They're getting arrested, the flex
cuffs have been going on. You know, no surprise there.
They definitely earned that one. Some of the crazier signs
I've seen it at protests in a while, kind of
up there with the you know, trans students for Palestine,
(35:03):
trans students for Hamas. I don't know if those trans
students really know very much about Hamas. I'll put that
out there. But we've got all that happening, and we've
got more also dive into on the economy. I will
get to that. I think today is a busy day
of things going on here. Let's talk Department of Education,
(35:24):
and we have education. First of all, the Department Education
has gotten a bunch of cuts. They've had people who
are told sorry you are you are no longer employed here.
Thirteen hundred employees. Offices were closed. Now, I think it
is probably the case that a lot of Democrats are
(35:44):
thinking to them or a lot of these individuals and
Democrats are thinking, well, the worst is over. It turns
out no, from their perspective, I don't think the worst
is over. Education Secretary McMahon spoke on this this is
cut nineteen. Here's what she said. Is this the first
step on the road to a total shutdown?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Yes, actually it is, because that was the president's mandate.
This directive to me, this clearly is to shut down
the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to
work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
But what we did today was to take the.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
First step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat.
And that's not to say that a lot of the folks,
you know, it's a humanitarian thing to a lot of
the folks that are there, you know, they're out of
a job. But we wanted to make sure that we
kept all of the right people, the good people, to
make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the
appropriations that come from Congress. All of that are being
met and none of that's going to fall through the crack.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, there you have it. She's saying, straight up, we're
going to shut this thing down. This is not this
is not just oh they came out, they came out
with this big thing right away, but things are going
to settle down. No, they're not going to settle down.
They're going to try to shut down their work with
Congress to do it. There's some things that still need
(37:04):
to get squared away with the legislative branch, but they're
going to try to shut down the entire department. I
just thought this was interesting that now they're in a position,
right the cuts have been made, as Doge and Trump
and Elon and everybody have been saying they would be
there's more coming. But I mean, they're making these cuts.
(37:25):
This is not just rhetorical. This isn't just to get
the base fired up. Now the New York Times and
others are in a position where they have to explain, well,
why do we care if the Department of Education has
lost thirteen hundred employees and what difference does that make
to the American people that they have to explain this
(37:46):
to us and the New York Times comes out with this,
which I just think is perfect, unintentionally perfect. Our schools
succeeding Trump Education department cuts could make it hard to know.
At least eight I'm reading here from the New York Times,
at least eight hundred Education Department research employees and outside
(38:06):
partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and
collection data. So we're paying We're paying hundreds of people.
We're bringing hundreds of people to tell us the same
thing every year for the last fifty years, which is no. Nationally,
(38:28):
the education system is not improving. No, the test scores
gap among different student ethnicities has not been closed. No,
test scores of low income students, especially low income students
from non to parent households, have not improved. We got
(38:50):
hundreds of people that are just there to tell us
what we already know. And why can't a state do this?
Why does the federal government have to do some kind
of number about what's going on in schools nationwide that
doesn't really tell us anything. What tells us something is, hey,
in this school district administered by the county or the
(39:11):
state of whatever the state is, here's what's going on.
Returning this to the states makes so much sense. Would
the federal government. Should the federal government be in charge of,
you know, waste management collection in your neighborhood, you know
you want the federal government. No, we all understand that's
a very localized issue and so that's left up to
(39:33):
municipalities and localities. Why would the federal government think that
it needs to be in the business of education. Well,
as we know, this department was created but a few
decades ago, and it has done. They should be able
to scream about what we're going to miss out on
if the Department of Education goes away, because and they would,
(39:55):
as you know, they should be able to say, oh,
you know, if you cut the This is the fireman
first theory. Whenever you try to cut the budget in
any city, they go, we won't have enough firemen, and
then you know, the buildings will all burn down. You go, okay,
look we need firemen, right, So yeah, if you're going
to cut the fireman budget, you know we need cops.
If you're going to cut those budgets, there's a consequence
(40:17):
that people can understand, and that's why we fund those things.
That's why there are that's why there are fire departments
and police departments, et cetera. Right, very straightforward. What are
we missing out on if the Department of Education goes away?
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Notice they oh, but we got people that are looking
at the metrics and doing a cross section of the.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Blow body blah, nothing. Nothing. If you can't tell me
why an entire department going away isn't going to be
a problem for me, the department shouldn't exist. I think
that's quite clear if you said, hey, buck, I mean
as much as the State Department is a bunch of
(40:57):
uh now, not all of them. And I have to
say this because you know, I know, I know, I
know a few former Marines who became Foreign Service officers,
like you know, they are real patriots work in the
State Department. Let's not forget about that. But in general,
it's a left wing, radical, lunatic institution. In general, there's
a lot of that there. And I know because I
used to deal with them when I was in the CIA,
and the CIA was like, I mean, even before Trump
(41:20):
came along, we were a lot of US were MAGA
compared to the State Department. All right, State Department and
USAID is like Fidel Castro should have been running that place.
They're so left wing. I don't even know what to say. So,
you know, everybody was left of All these institutions were
left of center. And I'm going back here over a
decade obviously, but CIA was the most center right because
(41:40):
we had the paramilitaries and we had you know, case
officers and some analysts like me who were conservative, you know,
loved them, loved America. I didn't think that we were
the problem in the world. Then you go to State Department,
little left of the CIA, and then you go to USAID,
which is you know, Commieville, as we know, just straight
straight out of Moscow in the day. So with all
(42:02):
this though, the State Department, if you told me, hey, Buck,
you know what, let's just get rid of that, I'd say, no, no, no,
there's a federal there's a federal need for the state.
Foreign relations is a constitutional duty of the federal government.
We do need to have foreign you know. So, and
that's very straightforward, right if you if someone came to
me and they said, why why do we need a
Department of Justice, Well, if we're going to have federal law,
(42:22):
which we need to have federal laws, we do need
to have some body that enforces it, not corruptly and
for a part as an agenda like Biden did. But
we do need you know, it's clear, that's why we
have it. The OE Department of Education. They can't even
make the case. This New York Times article. I read it,
I'm like, great, get rid of these people. We don't
(42:43):
need them that they do nothing. They are not helping,
you know, they pass out federal funding grants and things
like this. We don't need them distributing these dollars. Let's
let the states take this thing over and let's get,
if anything, more dollars to the states from the federal government.
If that's what Trump and the Congress decides to do,
give it to the states that can use it better
(43:05):
instead of having it parse through the hands of passed
through the hands of bureaucrats at the Department of Education.
But this when you have the head of an agency saying,
my mission is to shut down this agency. The Trump
memo has been received. Everybody, this is real, this is happening.
I'm just going to say this. Tulci Gabbard. I like
(43:28):
Tulsi very very a good lady who I think is
going to do a good job, and a patriot and
everything else. She should fix the she should fix the
intelligence community as much as she can, and then she
should self destruct. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
It should not exist. It's a joke. It's just oversight
(43:49):
on top of oversight, on top of bureaucracy. There is
no need for a DNI. It used to just be
the CIA director was the conduit for the intelligency. That
could be the case again. You don't need all right,
I mean, I remember being in the Oval office with
I think it was Clapper. That was a Clapper. I
can't even remember who the Director of National Intelligence was
back under the early days of Obama or early I'm sorry,
(44:12):
latter days of Bush. It's been a long time. Like,
what is this guy even doing here? I don't need it,
you know, showing up at a briefing. I don't need this
guy here. This is ridiculous. So od and I should
go away, NCTC should go away, and the people who
work in these places should find gainful employment. A lot
of them have impressive educational credentials. They've gotten some interesting experience,
(44:34):
and there's a lot of different things that they could do,
you know, maybe go work at DOZE and help find
where the billions of dollars are getting are disappearing to
in some of these fraudulent transactions. Right, there's plenty of
stuff for them to do. And I think that what
we're seeing right now is the Trump agenda at the
Department of Education and these other places is being enacted,
(44:56):
which is fantastic. It's not rhetoric, it's not just talk.
It makes me very happy. The other thing is you
have to remember when it comes to government bureaucrats, there's
the expense and the harassment of bureaucrats in these places,
in these different agencies who don't need to be there,
(45:17):
who aren't really doing anything. The expense we all understand, right,
you're paying salary, health benefits and all this as a taxpayer.
The federal government has gotten way too big, there's no
question about that. It's way too big. So that expense
is being borne by the tax payer. But then on
the harassment side of things, you have people who want
to justify their existence in these roles, and so they decide, well,
(45:39):
I'm going to do stuff. But this is true. You
go into like fishing fish and wildlife or fishing game
or whatever it's called. You go into a whole bunch
of different You got EPA. Oh, we're going to talk
EPA in a second. These bureaucrats are shown up, they're
getting paid. You know what they want to do. They
want to tell you what to do, and they show
up with an agenda, they show up with an ideology,
(46:00):
and then they make sure only people get hired and
only people get promoted in these agencies who share that ideology,
which is always left wing, especially at the EPA, especially
at USAID, et cetera. And then they find ways to
implement through the regulatory and rule making powers that they
have at these agencies, which they shouldn't have. They find
(46:21):
a way to say, you know what you're going to
do this now? Oh you think you're going to You
think you're going to drain that pond in your backyard.
That's a wet land. We'll find you ten thousand dollars
a day. Crazy stuff going on. So there's the cost
of the bureaucrats to the pocketbook and the cost of
(46:42):
the bureaucrats in frustration and time. And that, my friends,
is why getting rid of this nonsense is so important.
It's a double whammy. Look, President Trump is going to
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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 Tosay Senator Secretary of State Marco Rubio
on just exactly what's going on with that and what
is the authority that he is using. 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
(02:10):
bunch 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 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.
(03:37):
Play cut one. Tom Holman just screaming. He's on video
he love I's yelling at Tom Holman. Well, Tom Holman
does not care. In fact, if anything, I think Tom
(03:58):
was probably cracking 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
(04:18):
them to be. 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
(04:38):
into Marco Rubio 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, Holmes, doing a great job there, following through
(05:01):
on the promises of 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
(05:21):
or this is important. 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
(05:43):
blanket mass amnesty, right. 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 Holman has an idea, and Governor Kathy Hochel maybe
(06:07):
finding out the hard way 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 going to
be real problems for you. Play too, you know he got.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
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 Newley Allen. So she says, yeah,
criminal aliens should be deported. However, when Mayor Adams meet
to me and wants to help us arrest criminal alands,
get us back on Rikers Island, she goes down and
try to FIRELM. She's got the green white in law
(06:41):
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 a war to get that data. And if
they get the war to get that data works New York,
do they notify the bad guy that we're investigating him.
So I'm up there calling her up for 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 I 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
with 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.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
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.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Well, hold on a second, why, ah, we're forcing their hand.
And this is what Trump and 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
(09:05):
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 reporting that the Trump
administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of
seventy to ninety eight, a sweeping wartime authority, in the
coming days. This is CNN reporting, and this is designed
(09:27):
to speed up the President's mass deportation pledge. This is
where things are going to start 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.
(09:48):
They're using the levers that they have to get cooperation.
This will, all, of course, I'm sure, 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
(10:09):
been willing to use in the past. Uh. 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
(10:32):
Trump in the executive branch actually has a lot 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
(10:55):
Democrats know that now, or at least they've been 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
not enforce or that they would essentially nullify a lot
of immigration laws. Trump and his team are taking it
(11:18):
any other direction. They're looking at every statutory 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
(11:39):
we're going to know. They're saying, what do we already
have the power to do? What authorities already exist 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
(12:00):
out you can do that. Turns out when you're a visitor,
you do not, in fact have the 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
(12:20):
the way, I haven't even gotten into what's going on
over the EPA. My man Lee 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
(12:46):
right now. It's underway, So I'm going 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. That
(13:09):
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 racked in stacks.
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Speaker 1 (15:04):
This was my initial question about this 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
(15:26):
I think so most of them are. 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 cent sorry I did it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
who is just laying it out and he's saying, look,
(15:46):
you be you're gonna be a jerk who hates America.
You don't have to be here, and we can send
you home. This has cut eight play it.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
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 barrack
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
(16:14):
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.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I hope we would.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
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, we're going to kick
you out.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
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 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
(17:00):
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
(17:22):
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
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that 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
(19:09):
up to even really know what's going on. And that's
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 things. 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,
(19:29):
but we got to stay abreast of all these different events.
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
(19:51):
the momentum that Trump has. So that's why I'm sitting
here looking at what's going on with the Department of Education,
which has already lost almost half of its staff and
had off is 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
(20:11):
that the Christy Nome at DHS and Homan and the
White House is taking on immigration enforcement and deportations. It's
We're We've 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
(20:35):
oh boy, occupied Trump Tower and are chanting freemch mood.
The guy who's about to get the boot from this country.
And as we discussed and Secretary of Rubia 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.
(20:57):
They have let me see, not in our new t
shirts on opposing fascism is Jewish tradition, 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
(21:17):
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 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
(21:39):
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
astro turf. The whole thing. We will get 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
(22:01):
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 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
(22:23):
live with them. This is the reality of this conflict.
Oh boy. So anyway, Carol Markowitz, the 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 clam Buck podcast network. I want to talk go
back to the border here for a second. And I
(22:43):
know I'm throwing a lot of things at you. It's
great that we have a podcast of the show. So
if you want to go back and hear some of
the details, or if you had to do something at
the office. I love that some of you sneak Clay
and Buck show in your ear with like an earbud
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of like Neo and the Matrix and the cubicles, like
we're part of the resistance with you, you know what
(23:05):
I'm saying. But if you had to step away for
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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.
(23:28):
First of all, you have a lot of talks so
far about how the border the illegal crossings down ninety
five percent. I think it is called it roughly ninety
five percent. So the human trafficking problem at our border
in less than two months has been solved by Trump.
(23:49):
Any other issue that I would talk to you about
that's of public public concern now policy concern. If I
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
(24:10):
five percent. Now, on the one hand, this is high
fives and congrats to the White House for getting it done,
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
(24:31):
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
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
(24:54):
what they wanted. They betrayed the American people, they betrayed
our sovereignty, they betrayed the tr trust in them to
enforce 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,
(25:17):
but the fentanyl seizures at the US border are showing
it 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
(25:38):
and what's going on with the drug trade in Mexico
for He's done this for twenty years. Seventy five percent
drop according to Mexico's 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
(25:59):
in hand. End. I've explained this process before, so pardon
me if you've already heard this, but just really quickly.
When 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 in 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
(26:23):
I was seeing what was going on. They would have
the human trafficking piece, the human trafficking component, meaning actual
boatloads of women and children. Now, of course that also
you have to be We got our border patrol guys
who are there, look their moms, their dads, their human beings.
They don't want at kid to drown. So they have
to be careful about the humanitarian mission now, and so
(26:47):
they cross with the the cartels. The coyotes do this
on purpose. They send over like a flotilla of women
and children. And then all of our border patrol resorts
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 night vision. You
(27:09):
see it down there, and then you look down at
the other end. We're on some pretty high ground. You
look down the other end, maybe a half mile a
mile out from where that happens, and guess what speedboats
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
(27:32):
things go I mean, that's just one example 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
(27:54):
not only are we dealing with illegal the illegal 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 you know you're gonna bring down,
hopefully hopefully overdose deaths and everything that goes with Remember
(28:14):
overdose deaths, that's the leading indicator 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,
(28:39):
hasn't really gotten as 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 there be
(29:00):
some indications that Mexico might 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
(29:21):
in the DOJ. The United States 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
(29:44):
President of Mexico, has said, you know what I'm you
want them, you got, 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 com conversation. Uh, but they've
been taken into US custody. These drug cartel and I'm
(30:05):
talking about from 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
(30:28):
facility I think 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
(30:50):
Bankman freed it had 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 aims,
and they're taking them or they've they've extradited them to
US already without going through the process of making sure,
(31:10):
this is my understanding of it, that they can't be
executed here. 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
(31:33):
out with this Mexican government and you know, eventually I'll
either break 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 Pambondi's DJ 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
(31:55):
how that that is an escalation that is really interesting
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
(32:17):
in the past over Mexican airspace. I can neither confirm
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,
(32:38):
federal facilities in Houston, Chicago, New York, Phoenix, San Antonio.
They have dispersed the cartel leadership to US prisons where
they ain't getting out. Something's going on here. They're gett
they're getting ready. They're getting ready for some kind of
a move. This Trump team is not messing around. All right?
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Speaker 1 (34:39):
We've been talking already about the border, immigration, the protest
of lunatics in Trump Tower. They're getting arrested, the flex
cuffs have been going on. You know, no surprise there.
They definitely earned that one. Some of the crazier signs
I've seen it at protests in a while, kind of
up there with the you know, trans students for Palestine,
(35:03):
trans students for Hamas. I don't know if those trans
students really know very much about Hamas. I'll put that
out there. But we've got all that happening, and we've
got more also dive into on the economy. I will
get to that. I think today is a busy day
of things going on here. Let's talk Department of Education,
(35:24):
and we have education. First of all, the Department Education
has gotten a bunch of cuts. They've had people who
are told sorry you are you are no longer employed here.
Thirteen hundred employees. Offices were closed. Now, I think it
is probably the case that a lot of Democrats are
(35:44):
thinking to them or a lot of these individuals and
Democrats are thinking, well, the worst is over. It turns
out no, from their perspective, I don't think the worst
is over. Education Secretary McMahon spoke on this this is
cut nineteen. Here's what she said. Is this the first
step on the road to a total shutdown?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Yes, actually it is, because that was the president's mandate.
This directive to me, this clearly is to shut down
the Department of Education, which we know we'll have to
work with Congress, you know, to get that accomplished.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
But what we did today was to take the.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
First step of eliminating what I think is bureaucratic bloat.
And that's not to say that a lot of the folks,
you know, it's a humanitarian thing to a lot of
the folks that are there, you know, they're out of
a job. But we wanted to make sure that we
kept all of the right people, the good people, to
make sure that the outward facing programs, the grants, the
appropriations that come from Congress. All of that are being
met and none of that's going to fall through the crack.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Yeah, there you have it. She's saying, straight up, we're
going to shut this thing down. This is not this
is not just oh they came out, they came out
with this big thing right away, but things are going
to settle down. No, they're not going to settle down.
They're going to try to shut down their work with
Congress to do it. There's some things that still need
(37:04):
to get squared away with the legislative branch, but they're
going to try to shut down the entire department. I
just thought this was interesting that now they're in a position,
right the cuts have been made, as Doge and Trump
and Elon and everybody have been saying they would be
there's more coming. But I mean, they're making these cuts.
(37:25):
This is not just rhetorical. This isn't just to get
the base fired up. Now the New York Times and
others are in a position where they have to explain, well,
why do we care if the Department of Education has
lost thirteen hundred employees and what difference does that make
to the American people that they have to explain this
(37:46):
to us and the New York Times comes out with this,
which I just think is perfect, unintentionally perfect. Our schools
succeeding Trump Education department cuts could make it hard to know.
At least eight I'm reading here from the New York Times,
at least eight hundred Education Department research employees and outside
(38:06):
partners have lost jobs. The cuts will decimate research and
collection data. So we're paying We're paying hundreds of people.
We're bringing hundreds of people to tell us the same
thing every year for the last fifty years, which is no. Nationally,
(38:28):
the education system is not improving. No, the test scores
gap among different student ethnicities has not been closed. No,
test scores of low income students, especially low income students
from non to parent households, have not improved. We got
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hundreds of people that are just there to tell us
what we already know. And why can't a state do this?
Why does the federal government have to do some kind
of number about what's going on in schools nationwide that
doesn't really tell us anything. What tells us something is, hey,
in this school district administered by the county or the
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state of whatever the state is, here's what's going on.
Returning this to the states makes so much sense. Would
the federal government. Should the federal government be in charge of,
you know, waste management collection in your neighborhood, you know
you want the federal government. No, we all understand that's
a very localized issue and so that's left up to
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municipalities and localities. Why would the federal government think that
it needs to be in the business of education. Well,
as we know, this department was created but a few
decades ago, and it has done. They should be able
to scream about what we're going to miss out on
if the Department of Education goes away, because and they would,
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as you know, they should be able to say, oh,
you know, if you cut the This is the fireman
first theory. Whenever you try to cut the budget in
any city, they go, we won't have enough firemen, and
then you know, the buildings will all burn down. You go, okay,
look we need firemen, right, So yeah, if you're going
to cut the fireman budget, you know we need cops.
If you're going to cut those budgets, there's a consequence
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that people can understand, and that's why we fund those things.
That's why there are that's why there are fire departments
and police departments, et cetera. Right, very straightforward. What are
we missing out on if the Department of Education goes away?
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Notice they oh, but we got people that are looking
at the metrics and doing a cross section of the.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Blow body blah, nothing. Nothing. If you can't tell me
why an entire department going away isn't going to be
a problem for me, the department shouldn't exist. I think
that's quite clear if you said, hey, buck, I mean
as much as the State Department is a bunch of
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uh now, not all of them. And I have to
say this because you know, I know, I know, I
know a few former Marines who became Foreign Service officers,
like you know, they are real patriots work in the
State Department. Let's not forget about that. But in general,
it's a left wing, radical, lunatic institution. In general, there's
a lot of that there. And I know because I
used to deal with them when I was in the CIA,
and the CIA was like, I mean, even before Trump
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came along, we were a lot of US were MAGA
compared to the State Department. All right, State Department and
USAID is like Fidel Castro should have been running that place.
They're so left wing. I don't even know what to say. So,
you know, everybody was left of All these institutions were
left of center. And I'm going back here over a
decade obviously, but CIA was the most center right because
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we had the paramilitaries and we had you know, case
officers and some analysts like me who were conservative, you know,
loved them, loved America. I didn't think that we were
the problem in the world. Then you go to State Department,
little left of the CIA, and then you go to USAID,
which is you know, Commieville, as we know, just straight
straight out of Moscow in the day. So with all
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this though, the State Department, if you told me, hey, Buck,
you know what, let's just get rid of that, I'd say, no, no, no,
there's a federal there's a federal need for the state.
Foreign relations is a constitutional duty of the federal government.
We do need to have foreign you know. So, and
that's very straightforward, right if you if someone came to
me and they said, why why do we need a
Department of Justice, Well, if we're going to have federal law,
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which we need to have federal laws, we do need
to have some body that enforces it, not corruptly and
for a part as an agenda like Biden did. But
we do need you know, it's clear, that's why we
have it. The OE Department of Education. They can't even
make the case. This New York Times article. I read it,
I'm like, great, get rid of these people. We don't
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need them that they do nothing. They are not helping,
you know, they pass out federal funding grants and things
like this. We don't need them distributing these dollars. Let's
let the states take this thing over and let's get,
if anything, more dollars to the states from the federal government.
If that's what Trump and the Congress decides to do,
give it to the states that can use it better
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instead of having it parse through the hands of passed
through the hands of bureaucrats at the Department of Education.
But this when you have the head of an agency saying,
my mission is to shut down this agency. The Trump
memo has been received. Everybody, this is real, this is happening.
I'm just going to say this. Tulci Gabbard. I like
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Tulsi very very a good lady who I think is
going to do a good job, and a patriot and
everything else. She should fix the she should fix the
intelligence community as much as she can, and then she
should self destruct. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
It should not exist. It's a joke. It's just oversight
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on top of oversight, on top of bureaucracy. There is
no need for a DNI. It used to just be
the CIA director was the conduit for the intelligency. That
could be the case again. You don't need all right,
I mean, I remember being in the Oval office with
I think it was Clapper. That was a Clapper. I
can't even remember who the Director of National Intelligence was
back under the early days of Obama or early I'm sorry,
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latter days of Bush. It's been a long time. Like,
what is this guy even doing here? I don't need it,
you know, showing up at a briefing. I don't need this
guy here. This is ridiculous. So od and I should
go away, NCTC should go away, and the people who
work in these places should find gainful employment. A lot
of them have impressive educational credentials. They've gotten some interesting experience,
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and there's a lot of different things that they could do,
you know, maybe go work at DOZE and help find
where the billions of dollars are getting are disappearing to
in some of these fraudulent transactions. Right, there's plenty of
stuff for them to do. And I think that what
we're seeing right now is the Trump agenda at the
Department of Education and these other places is being enacted,
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which is fantastic. It's not rhetoric, it's not just talk.
It makes me very happy. The other thing is you
have to remember when it comes to government bureaucrats, there's
the expense and the harassment of bureaucrats in these places,
in these different agencies who don't need to be there,
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who aren't really doing anything. The expense we all understand, right,
you're paying salary, health benefits and all this as a taxpayer.
The federal government has gotten way too big, there's no
question about that. It's way too big. So that expense
is being borne by the tax payer. But then on
the harassment side of things, you have people who want
to justify their existence in these roles, and so they decide, well,
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I'm going to do stuff. But this is true. You
go into like fishing fish and wildlife or fishing game
or whatever it's called. You go into a whole bunch
of different You got EPA. Oh, we're going to talk
EPA in a second. These bureaucrats are shown up, they're
getting paid. You know what they want to do. They
want to tell you what to do, and they show
up with an agenda, they show up with an ideology,
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and then they make sure only people get hired and
only people get promoted in these agencies who share that ideology,
which is always left wing, especially at the EPA, especially
at USAID, et cetera. And then they find ways to
implement through the regulatory and rule making powers that they
have at these agencies, which they shouldn't have. They find
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a way to say, you know what you're going to
do this now? Oh you think you're going to You
think you're going to drain that pond in your backyard.
That's a wet land. We'll find you ten thousand dollars
a day. Crazy stuff going on. So there's the cost
of the bureaucrats to the pocketbook and the cost of
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the bureaucrats in frustration and time. And that, my friends,
is why getting rid of this nonsense is so important.
It's a double whammy. Look, President Trump is going to
tell you that our nation's inflation rate is lowering, and
it is going to be in the long term. I
think that's looking very good. But in the meantime, what
can you do to prepare for some rocky financial future.
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The best hedge against inflation is gold. I actually just
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I've done this for years. Buying gold right now makes sense.
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