March 14, 2025 • 37 mins
President Trump's quest for Greenland is not a crazy idea. Senator Chuck Schumer votes to keep the government open and the left freaks out. AOC (aka social media star) says it's unthinkable for Senate Democrats to back the GOP bill. Elections have consequences. CNN's S.E. Cupp says the Democrats are a mess and not on the same page. Everything, everywhere, all at once. MSNBC Lawrence O'Donnell is taking a week off citing exhaustion from Trump's presidency. Tariff freakout. Justin Trudeau officially steps down as prime minister of Canada. Federal judges can be activists too. Trump administration asking the Supreme Court to stop the "hashtag resistance" judges. Nationwide injunctions. Birthright citizenship. Reinstatement of federal employees. The fourth unelected branch of the government is the bureaucracy. There's no room for conservatism on campus. The Department of Education and USAID. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts have been disappointments. Callers weigh in on the judges.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay, Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. It is a great Friday. Appreciate
you being with us. Clay last day of vacation for
him this week. He'll be back Monday. He's had a
great time out in Steamboat Steamboat Springs also known as
Steamboat I think in Colorado, and they'll be back Monday.
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So next week we'll be all fired up. The Dynamic
Duo back in action. Speaking of action this week and
I'll be out training in undisclosed location. There's some firearms
trading with a former SILKEAM six operator, so looking forward
to that. I'll tell you all about it when I
get back. I'm going with my brothers, kind of a
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guy's training trip. Before I am being trained to burp
a tiny baby and put diapers on. So this weekend
running around in the shoot house clearing rooms. In a
few weekends, I'm on diaper change duty for a long time.
So there we go. Exciting things happening in my world,
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Exciting things happening across the country and around the world too.
I want to dive into it. Speak you know what,
Let's have some funks. It's Friday, speaking of the world.
There's a little place, it's actually giant, not little, a
place called Greenland. Now, you may have not heard very
much about it until Donald Trump came along. Perhaps you've
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been told the old story that they called it Iceland
even though it had far less ice, and Greenland, even
though it had far less green, kind of mixing things
up for people. I don't even I think that's an
urban legend. But whatever that, people say that about it.
And Trump is not backing away from this one on Greenland.
He's happened quite a week. This has cut one talking
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about this large island that he thinks should be our island.
Play it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We really need Greenland for national security. It's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and
we have quite a few soldiers, and maybe you'll see
more and more soldiers go there. I don't know, what
do you think about that beat?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So don't answer that piece.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Don't But we have we have bases that we have
quite a few soldiers in Greenlands.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, it's not a crazy idea. We're not going We're
not going to invade. And people say stuff like that,
Give me a break. It's you know, get a sense
of humor, But why shouldn't we think more about this?
You know, if Guam can be accepted by everybody as
a US territory in the middle of nowhere in the
South Pacific, and it's a it's an important US territory
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by the way, for strategic reasons, we all know, why
why can't Greenland possibly be in the mix if they
agree to it. Trump pointed this one out. He said, look, Denmark,
which is currently administering Greenland, what does that even really mean?
Denmark is not exactly next door, So maybe this makes
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more sense than people are willing to think the first
time around. Plate two.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, ships all over the place, and we have to
have protection. So we're gonna have to make a deal
on that, and Denmark is not able to do that.
You know, Denmark's very far away and really has nothing
to do. What happens a boat landed that two hundred
years ago or something, and they say they have rights
to it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't think it is actually, But we've been dealing
with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have
to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We really needed.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Financial security, and I think that's why NATO might be
have to get involved.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He said, Look, it's an important strategic location. There are
very few people who live there on this giant land mass,
which is a lot of glaciers and ice, but there's
land too, and there's a lot of minerals and resources
when you get under that ice. But also given the
increasing focus on the race to the Arctic that has
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been underway for a long time but is heating up
more these days, it makes some sense. So this is
not a crazy idea. Canada the fifty first state. That's
not going to happen. He's trolling you, and I know
we speak Trump, we know when he's serious. The Greenland thing,
I don't think is likely, but it is not impossible.
And we'll see how much time and focus he wants
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to put on this. If you look at I just
take a little step back for some historical perspective, If
you look at some of the best moves made by
any American statesman in the history of our country, really
they were land purchases, and you know, bringing land into
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these United States. Louisiana purchased greatest land deal I think
of all time. Even Trump would be like better than
any of my land deals is the greatest land deal
of all time. And then of course other things Alaska
Seward Icebox they called it turned out he was pretty smart,
and other places, other territories that we've picked up along
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the way. You know, this is it's something to think
about it. It's just we're having a little fun on
our Friday, all right. You want to get into the
really important stuff. You joined me for the really important stuff.
Lets get into the really importance. So first of all,
Senate Majority, I'm sorry, Senate Democrat leader, not majority leader.
Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer is saying that he is
going to vote to keep the government open. And he's
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he's getting a lot of heat from his own side
on this one, but he understands the direction the wind
is blowing in right now. Politically. Let's hear cut ten.
Here's Chuck Schumer telling everybody that, look, we got to
avoid the shutdown place.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I supported what the House did to vote against this
bill universally, but that didn't cause a shutdown. It's a
different it's different in the Senate, and I knew people
were going to disagree with me, but I felt so
strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster do
we face with these arrogant, arrogant autocrats that we had
to avoid the shutdown and fight on many of the
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other things, every other issue that we have.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He's saying, look, this is the thing we got to
do here. I don't like it, but this is where
we are. We got to keep the government open, because
he knows that the American people have seen enough of
Democrats saying, how dare you even consider shutting down the government.
You can't do that, you can't do that, And now
they're going to try to turn around and play it
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on the other side. AOC who has the advantage of
not having to to do politics but really to do
social media.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She doesn't have to pass legislation, she doesn't have to
think about bills and laws. She just has to do
like Instagram videos and like tweet and go on MSNBC
even though no one's watching. And she is very upset
about humor backing down and being willing to back the
GOP bill. This is eleven hit it.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
This Republican extreme spending bill removes all of the guardrails
and all of the accountability measures to ensure that money
is being spent in the way that Congress has directed
for it to be spent. This turns the federal government
into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It sacrifices congressional authority, and it is deeply partisan, and
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so to me, it is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats
would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that
we have away for free when we've been sent here
to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid, and protect Medicare.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Elections have consequences, AOC. That's really the problem here in
the minority. The last election, the American people spoke loudly
and clearly about which party they want to be in control,
and the GOP is going forward with the agenda. So
I think this is a very good thing. I think
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this is something well. If there had been a shutdown,
Tchumor would have gotten the blame for it. The Democrats
would have been even more messed up than they are.
Is that even really possible? My old this cut seventeen,
My old table mate at Real News, se cup, old
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friend of mine. She's even to saying on CNN and
she like the Democrats total mess right now play it.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
It is shocking how Democrats have not figured out what
is coming down the pike. It is March, you know
the spending fight is coming, and you know Republicans have
a majority. I don't understand for all the chaos on
the right. Democrats are a mess. They haven't figured out.
It's not how they're gonna fight Donald Trump yet, they
haven't even figured out if they're gonna fight Donald Trump's agenda.
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They've got to get it together and get on the
same page and figure out a roadmap going forward because
the chaos is going to be daily, there's going to
be incoming for months, and they are not on the
same page at all.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
That's clear.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they got nothing right. I mean, I don't think
the Republicans are in chaos at all. Really. I think
that this administration is operating as close to a Swiss
watch as anyone could imagine, given the scope of what
they're trying to accomplish. And part of the strategy is
everything everywhere, all at once, and it's working because Democrats
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are in complete disarray, a total mess. They don't know
what to do, so much so that some of them
are calling in sick and I'm not exaggerating, or maybe
they're calling in for a vacation. Here is MSNBC's This
is twenty four MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. He just can't handle
it anymore. Democrats are getting the butts kicked so badly.
(09:51):
He's taking a vacation because he just they we've broken
and play it.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Well, here's the thing. This is day fifty two. I
thought it was day ninety two. It turns out it's
day fifty two, Rachel. And I'm exhausted at day fifty two.
And so I'm going to take next week off. And
I'm telling you that now because I know you don't
like it when I just drift away and I don't
just taking next week off, then then I could come back.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Honestly, the smart Democrat pundits right now should probably all
take a vacation for a week or five or more
because they just have absolutely no way of opposing, slowing down,
or doing anything to stop the Trump agenda, with the
exception of we're going to get into this. These judges,
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the judges are a big problem right now, these universal injunctions.
It is unconstitutional, it is overreach, it is madness. So
that's MSNBC, the pundits, the media apparatus of the Democrats
all completely I would say, largely irrelevant at this point.
That don't really they'll come back, I know, but right
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now they are. It's like they're all on vacation, or
they'd be better off if they were all on vacation
because they can't make sound arguments. They look like deer
in the headlights. But they're relying a lot. The Democrats
are relying almost entirely on the activist judges, all Obama
and Biden appointees, these activist federal judges who are just
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overriding and overruling presidential prerogative on a regular basis. Now
this is a central fight for the Trump administration and
really for the country, because you're seeing this tested in
a variety of ways. If the President of the United
States isn't really the CEO of the executive branch, meaning
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that he can fire people, he can make changes to personnel,
then where is what's the point of the election? If
they're on autopilot. If Congress gets to say, here's this thing,
no one's in charge of it, but we funded it,
and no one can make any changes to it in
the executive branch, it's on some weird autopilot swamp tour.
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Why do we have elections? What is the purpose of
going through the billions of dollars spent for this last
election cycle? If DC runs itself, essentially, it's just endless
funding from Congress, hurtling us over the cliff of fiscal insanity,
and anyone who tries to stop it is told, no,
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you're not allowed to stop it. The system is self aware.
The system is Skynet from terminator, and it will destroy
us all before you're allowed to do anything to it.
This is a big deal, and I'll get it to
some of the specifics of this here coming up in
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right, welcome back in. We are going to have
quite a show for you today. First off, I want
to tell you who the guests will be on the program.
Our friend Tutor Dixon will be in the mix in
the third hour. She is in Michigan. Jd Vance, the
Vice President's there. They're going to be together at an
event looking at Trump's plans for manufacturing, increasing domestic production,
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boosting the economy with it, jobs, wages, all that good stuff.
So we'll talk to Tutor about that her event with
the Vice President, and then we've also we've also got
joining us for the first time on the program, the
Deputy White House Press Secretary, which will also be quite
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a discussion looking forward to that. So we've got a
lot going on, my friends, And yeah, it was really
funny some of you are just noting now that. Yeah,
Anna Kelly, by the way, will we join us, wis
press secon or the the The attitude over at MSNBC
is more or less what you would expect given how
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things have have been unfolding for Democrats lately. And honestly,
I can't really I can't really blame them. They've they've
got nothing right now and all of their usual moves
aren't actually working. This is something that has been coming
for a long time. I think the Democrats have gotten
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so used to just being able to shout that it's
all going to be. You know, it's terrible. Trump is Hitler,
he's a fascist, all that stuff, and it used to
kind of work with their own people, but now it's
just it all rings hollow. You sound it sound pathetic,
even if the audience of MSNBC believes it. They know
it's not going to do anything. And and there's also
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the the prospect here. I think of some major Trump wins. Uh,
the price of eggs, which a couple of weeks ago,
price of eggs were high, we're hearing about a lot now.
Price of eggs started to go down substantially, and we're
not hearing about the price of eggs so much anymore.
So you say to yourself, Oh, that's the game, right,
So it it matters when it's anti Trump, when it's
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pro Trump, though we can't or when it's good for
the Trump administration, we're not supposed to hear about it.
They're not really going to talk about it. So that's
something that is underway. Also on the economy, I think
you're likely to see things start to stabilize a bit more.
It might take a little bit of time. All the
freak out on tariffs. Oh, I'm just seeing this the
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breaking news justin Trudeau has officially stepped down, speaking of tariffs,
has officially stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada.
For a generally great country, they've got some problems in Canada.
All countries have got problems. We're a generally great country.
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With a great people, with great people. Trudeau is the
worst leader of his era. I think now you could say,
buck buck, that's crazy. Biden's so much worse to that,
I would point out, but Trudeau doesn't have dementia. Trudeau
is in his political prime. You could say, and look
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at how ineffectual, destructive, idiotic, sophomoric and sanctimonious he is.
I mean, I could just go on and on and on.
You could tell that Trump has nothing but contempt for
Trudeau as a leader and as a man. And Trump
is absolutely right. So that's a good thing, and you
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can tell that there may be an opening here for
better leadership for Canada. I know it didn't the election,
it didn't really go exactly as we want to, But
I don't know how it could be much worse than
what you've got with Trudeau. I don't see how this
could go anywhere. But up maybe I'm being a little
too optimistic about it. And what are they going to
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say if Trump manages to get Canada to back off
on some of its tariffs, and then we have that
boost for American producers and we don't even have to
go through the process of keeping tariffs on Canada in
any long term sense. Are the people who are currently
saying it's crazy. I'll be up even the Wall Street
Journal front page. You know, a lot of concern about
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stock prices over the Wall Street Journal, No surprise. They're
very critical of Trump on this terriff issue, very critical
of him, And I'm just wondering if if he manages
to prove the haters wrong once again, will people say,
you know what he actually there was a method to
the madness. There was something going on here that we
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should have allowed it to play out a bit more
before we decided that it was time to start completely
panicking and saying, oh, he's creating all of this destruction
for no reason in the economy. Yeah, I think we
got to put some faith in the guy, and I
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and Buck. Let's get into the central challenge right now,
facing the Trump agenda and the effort to cut the
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waste and rein in the government, the madness from DC
the Leviathan to constrain the Leviathan finally, and that is
now getting jammed up in the courts because there are
judges in Maryland and California who are ordering the reinstatement
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of tens of thousands of federal workers. Think about this.
A federal judge can just say now to the administration, Hey,
you have to hire back thousands and thousands of people
that you, the commander chief and the head of the
executive branch have fired. Does the federal judge run the
country or does the president run the country? Isn't that
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worth asking? This is what I was getting to before
you got this judge and Maryland judge in California. Oh wait,
you mean judges in versal injunction is madness because it
means that any one federal judge anywhere in the country
can stop any federal policy that he or she chooses
at any point in time. Think about the power that
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gives any judge. There's a lot of federal judges running around.
Any federal judge who is an activist sad sad kamala voter,
because we all know that's what really happens here, they
can decide that the whole system has to come to
a screeching halt out of the executive branch because they
say so, or even more than that, they can give
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an order and they can say you have to do
the following because I say so. Really, so you have.
For example, the Trump administration now asking going to the
Supreme Court to say, look, you've got to you got
to stop this. This is this I know it sounds like, oh, judges,
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you know in the courts, this will get figured out.
This is critical. They did this. Really, the most effective
tools they used to slow down Trump in the first
term were the Russia collusion hoax, which was disgraceful, but
they were able to put them on defense with that,
and then also these hashtag resistance judges, so many of
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whom were slapped down eventually by the Supreme Court. But remember,
delay is the point, the punishment is the process. If
they can make everything go much more slowly, then they
get their way, even if eventually they are overturned, because
they're just they're sabotaging the administration right. Time is money
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when you're in politics too. Time is incredibly meaningful, especially
early in an administration. So they're just trying to slow
everything down as fast as they can. The Trump administration
wants the Supreme Court to put aside some of these
nationwide injunctions that these lower court judges have issued. Now
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this has to do with birthright citizen citizenships specifically, but
depending on how the Supreme Court rule is on this,
it could go far far beyond that, because they've got
to stop these judges from thinking that they're they're the
president basically, or that they can just override the president
because they think so. I mean, when you start to
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look at this, how many federal judges are there? There
are one thousand, seven hundred and seventy authorized federal judge
ships across the two hundred and nine courts in the
federal court system. So if the hashtag lib judiciary is
to be believed, any one of seventeen hundred and changed
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judges can just say President can't do that, and the
whole system is supposed to come to a screeching halt. Yes,
why isn't this only for the jurisdiction of that federal
judge in that court? Right, meaning that, yeah, if you
want to do this in Maryland, okay, but you can
tell all the rest of the fifty states. No, No,
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this stops everywhere, because I say so, It's pretty insane
when you start to see it this way, right, Supreme
Court has nine justices, Court of Appeals, one hundred and
seventy nine judges. District courts Okay, sorry, the district courts
have six hundred and seventy seven judges. Okay, six hundred
and seventy seven judges, and yeah, that's a lot. Still,
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any of the six hundred and seventy judges can say,
you're not allowed to do this. We need the Supreme
Court to give clarity on this, and come what may.
We just need to know because if the Democrats get
their way on this, it just means that control. You
don't have to control the judiciary or have even more judge.
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All you need are a couple of wack of do
left wing activists in judicial robes, and they are your
most effective means of preventing policy change from going into
effect in the executive branch. They are the ones who
can more than anybody else, more than the media, more
than Democrats in Congress. They can just stop the whole
thing unless the Supreme Court overrides them, and unless the
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Supreme Court even better reigns in the fact that this
notion of the universal injunction is just it makes no sense,
This makes no sense. So one judge can say the
policy stops everywhere, But what about the fact that there
are judges who will disagree, But one judge can stop
it everywhere. That's way more power than they are constitutionally afforded.
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It's nuts and the fact that they want to stop
all this stuff that's going on too is remarkable, but
it really does show you the Democrats just assume that
the federal bureaucracy is a fiefdom of their It is
a province of the DNC. They just assume that anybody
who's fired from the federal government or loses their role
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in the federal government is probably a kamalast slash Biden
slash maybe Gavin Newsom voter. So they go to the
mat on this. I mean, isn't that quite clear? And
they want the government to be as large and bloated
and cumbersome and burdensome as possible, Which is interesting because
back in twenty eleven, remember President Barack Obama, I do.
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This is a throwback that has been making the rounds
the last day or so. Back in twenty eleven, Obama
told everybody that he was putting Joe Biden in charge
of cutting waste in the government. This is twenty five
play it.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require
some tough decisions and that includes cutting back on billions
of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about.
But what should be easy is getting rid of the
pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. Waste
we should be getting rid of even if we didn't
have a deficit. We need to step up our game.
We need to go after every dime. We need to
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make government work for you. That's why, starting today, I've
asked the Vice President to lead a renewed effort to
hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency and department
of this government. We're calling it the Campaign to Cut Waste,
and I know Joe's the right man to lead it
because nobody messes with Joe.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Okay, put it aside that Joe Biden's more on We
all know that Obama should. This is like an answered
prayer to have Doge coming forward and doing what Obama
when he was president said he wanted to do. Now
they didn't do it. Isn't that so classic? You'll notice
that with Democrats with Republicans, they say they want to
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do things and they try, and they sometimes will fail,
and sometimes they're incapable of doing it because they're stopped
by Democrats. Democrats say they want to do things to
fool people because they don't actually want to do them.
Secure the border, they don't actually want to do that,
cut fraud, waste and abuse in government, They don't actually
want to do that. They just say it. They say
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it because it's politically effective for them. And what could
be more obvious than this Obama back in twenty eleven
all about he said, what every dime, every dime, we
got to track down every bit of misspent up And
then Elon is doing that with those and what are
we being told that's horrible? We need him to stop.
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This is crazy? Why? Because you cannot allow Trump and
his team to get a win or even just get
their way. There is something just so fundamentally bitter and
childish about the position of the Democrats on all of this.
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And the judge, I mean, I was looking through some
of this judge that wants the reinstatement of all these
federal employees saying, oh, but there's more process, you have
to go through more process. You have to fundamentally, can
the president fire people from the federal government or not
if it takes years to do it. The answer is no.
The answer is no. If you can't fire people from
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the federal government, if you cannot remove people from agencies
who aren't doing anything, then they don't work for the
executive branch. They really work for themselves. They're an entity
under themselves. They work for the fourth unelected branch of government,
which is the bureaucracy. And just like we've seen Democrats
on college campuses across the country completely take over the
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faculty lounge. That's been going on for sixty seventy years now,
but they completely have taken over faculty lounges at most
of the universities. There's no room for conservatism on campus.
They have largely done that in the federal bureaucracy as well.
Do you think if you're an ardent capitalist and a
right winger, a Trump voter, would you ever go work
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at the Department of Education? Probably not. Would you ever
go work at USAID?
Speaker 8 (30:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Would you work at the State Department maybe as an
appointee but rank and file, probably not. Would you be
a CIA analyst? There were a few of US, but
not very many, mostly communists. So what's going on here?
You know, I don't know what the stats were for
Kamala in this last election. But I do know that
(30:30):
I think, if I remember correctly, Hillary Clinton got of
donations from federal civil servants, over ninety percent of the donations.
It's like the DC area voting pattern as well, which
is that the swamp, the people who actually live in
the swamp in DC vote Democrat ninety four to ninety
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five percent of them. Say well, something's going on here.
There has been institutional capture of the federal bureaucracy by
a political party, and that federal bureaucracy has become far
too powerful, far too expensive, and just far too much
a presence in all of our lives. And this is
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this is a critical fight. I've said it all along,
immigration and reigning in the government, the spending, the scope,
the regulations, all of it. This is the first stuff
that Trump has and his team have been addressing, the
most critical stuff. So I'm happy to see that that's well,
that's where they're putting most of their attention right out
(31:33):
of the gates. But this stuff, the lower court injunctions,
let me tell you, there have been fifteen national injunctions
or universal injunctions against the Trump administration. And there were
in the first month. Okay, in the first month of
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Trump's presidency, there have been fifteen. There were fourteen injunctions
against Joe Biden in and see you're noticing a pattern here.
More right leaning and constitutionally serious judges on our side
(32:16):
of the ideological spectrum are far less like and Biden
just did wildly unconstitutional stuff like you cannot you know,
you can't evict people because of COVID and I'm gonna
pay for your your student loans because I say so,
Like he did things that were completely beyond the pale.
But over three years he had fourteen of these injunctions.
(32:39):
So three years, twelve months, a year, thirty six months,
thirty six months versus one month. Trump has more in
one month than Biden had in thirty six That gives
you a sense of how real this and how immediate
this problem is. These judges are just trying to stop
Trump in the most unilateral, anti democratic, anti republic possible way,
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which is taking it upon themselves to act like little
tyrants in judicial robes. And I just hope that the
Supreme Court. I don't trust this Supreme Court as much
the Libs love to cry about it, but Amy Coney
Barrett huge disappointment, huge disappointment. Good on uh on the
you know, the Roe v. Wade. So maybe this was
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the price we had to pay for Roe v. Wade
as having amy Cony Barrett for thirty some odd years
or forty years on the bench. But she is not good.
She defers to the authoritarian left far too much. And
then there's Roberts who just lacks backbone entirely and is
an institutionalist for the court, which is its own problem.
Now I just spoke to you about Roe v. Wade.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Like I said, we're
going to be joined by some fantastic guests later on
the program. We've got a Tutor Dixon Third Hour doing
an event up in Michigan with jd Vance, the Vice President,
so that's fantastic. And we've got Anna Kelly, who is
the White House Deputy Press Secretary. I want to bring
her on the program, ask her about what this White
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House is up to, how things are going along, and
what else we can expect in the days ahead. Want
to get to some of your calls and some of
your talkbacks and all that good stuff. Let's start with
Steve in Kentucky. What's going on? Steve?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
Yes, sir, It's an honor to talk to you. I'm
sitting on YouTube back on a glorious Kentucky day and
the sun is out, the wind is blowing.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's beautiful, lovely.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
Why doesn't the Trump administration defy the federal judge? And
why aren't they as articulate as you just were when
you spoke of the reason they should defy, or you
didn't say they should defy. But doesn't the executive branch
have the power to do this? Why not just defy it?
(36:21):
And why don't they reference the Biden administration that defied
the Supreme Court when it said he did not have
the right to forgive student loans.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I think that we're getting to a breaking point in this,
to be honest with you. I think that they want
to see what the Supreme Court does with this first
appeal to them, and then we'll have to see. But
the Democrats are forcing and I should say the Democrat
activists in these different courts are forcing a constitutional crisis.
(36:57):
They are the ones who are pushing this. They're the
ones who are making this so difficult. Richie in Florida,
fellow Floridy and what's up, Richie, oh Ritchie question, Yes, sir, Yes,
go for it. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
My question was why can't we get a Republican federal
judge to just say no, I overrule that Democratic judge
and we can keep these people from coming back.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, it's interesting, right, because it's like a jump ball.
Whoever comes up first with the injunction, then it has
to go to a Court of Appeals, then it has
to go to the Supreme Court, unless the Supreme Court
steps in early. So there's no preventative measure that a
judge who disagrees can do on the other judge. If
a judge steps in and says, you can't do what
you just did, Trump, we got to go through this process,
(37:50):
or at least that's what they're doing for now. We'll
get into more of this stick around
Welcome everybody to the Friday edition of the Clay, Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. It is a great Friday. Appreciate
you being with us. Clay last day of vacation for
him this week. He'll be back Monday. He's had a
great time out in Steamboat Steamboat Springs also known as
Steamboat I think in Colorado, and they'll be back Monday.
(00:21):
So next week we'll be all fired up. The Dynamic
Duo back in action. Speaking of action this week and
I'll be out training in undisclosed location. There's some firearms
trading with a former SILKEAM six operator, so looking forward
to that. I'll tell you all about it when I
get back. I'm going with my brothers, kind of a
(00:42):
guy's training trip. Before I am being trained to burp
a tiny baby and put diapers on. So this weekend
running around in the shoot house clearing rooms. In a
few weekends, I'm on diaper change duty for a long time.
So there we go. Exciting things happening in my world,
(01:03):
Exciting things happening across the country and around the world too.
I want to dive into it. Speak you know what,
Let's have some funks. It's Friday, speaking of the world.
There's a little place, it's actually giant, not little, a
place called Greenland. Now, you may have not heard very
much about it until Donald Trump came along. Perhaps you've
(01:24):
been told the old story that they called it Iceland
even though it had far less ice, and Greenland, even
though it had far less green, kind of mixing things
up for people. I don't even I think that's an
urban legend. But whatever that, people say that about it.
And Trump is not backing away from this one on Greenland.
He's happened quite a week. This has cut one talking
(01:46):
about this large island that he thinks should be our island.
Play it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
We really need Greenland for national security. It's very important.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
We have a couple of bases on Greenland already, and
we have quite a few soldiers, and maybe you'll see
more and more soldiers go there. I don't know, what
do you think about that beat?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So don't answer that piece.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Don't But we have we have bases that we have
quite a few soldiers in Greenlands.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Look, it's not a crazy idea. We're not going We're
not going to invade. And people say stuff like that,
Give me a break. It's you know, get a sense
of humor, But why shouldn't we think more about this?
You know, if Guam can be accepted by everybody as
a US territory in the middle of nowhere in the
South Pacific, and it's a it's an important US territory
(02:38):
by the way, for strategic reasons, we all know, why
why can't Greenland possibly be in the mix if they
agree to it. Trump pointed this one out. He said, look, Denmark,
which is currently administering Greenland, what does that even really mean?
Denmark is not exactly next door, So maybe this makes
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more sense than people are willing to think the first
time around. Plate two.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, ships all over the place, and we have to
have protection. So we're gonna have to make a deal
on that, and Denmark is not able to do that.
You know, Denmark's very far away and really has nothing
to do. What happens a boat landed that two hundred
years ago or something, and they say they have rights
to it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't think it is actually, But we've been dealing
with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have
to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
We really needed.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Financial security, and I think that's why NATO might be
have to get involved.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He said, Look, it's an important strategic location. There are
very few people who live there on this giant land mass,
which is a lot of glaciers and ice, but there's
land too, and there's a lot of minerals and resources
when you get under that ice. But also given the
increasing focus on the race to the Arctic that has
(03:59):
been underway for a long time but is heating up
more these days, it makes some sense. So this is
not a crazy idea. Canada the fifty first state. That's
not going to happen. He's trolling you, and I know
we speak Trump, we know when he's serious. The Greenland thing,
I don't think is likely, but it is not impossible.
And we'll see how much time and focus he wants
(04:21):
to put on this. If you look at I just
take a little step back for some historical perspective, If
you look at some of the best moves made by
any American statesman in the history of our country, really
they were land purchases, and you know, bringing land into
(04:43):
these United States. Louisiana purchased greatest land deal I think
of all time. Even Trump would be like better than
any of my land deals is the greatest land deal
of all time. And then of course other things Alaska
Seward Icebox they called it turned out he was pretty smart,
and other places, other territories that we've picked up along
(05:05):
the way. You know, this is it's something to think
about it. It's just we're having a little fun on
our Friday, all right. You want to get into the
really important stuff. You joined me for the really important stuff.
Lets get into the really importance. So first of all,
Senate Majority, I'm sorry, Senate Democrat leader, not majority leader.
Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer is saying that he is
going to vote to keep the government open. And he's
(05:31):
he's getting a lot of heat from his own side
on this one, but he understands the direction the wind
is blowing in right now. Politically. Let's hear cut ten.
Here's Chuck Schumer telling everybody that, look, we got to
avoid the shutdown place.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I supported what the House did to vote against this
bill universally, but that didn't cause a shutdown. It's a
different it's different in the Senate, and I knew people
were going to disagree with me, but I felt so
strongly that the shutdown would be the greatest disaster do
we face with these arrogant, arrogant autocrats that we had
to avoid the shutdown and fight on many of the
(06:08):
other things, every other issue that we have.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He's saying, look, this is the thing we got to
do here. I don't like it, but this is where
we are. We got to keep the government open, because
he knows that the American people have seen enough of
Democrats saying, how dare you even consider shutting down the government.
You can't do that, you can't do that, And now
they're going to try to turn around and play it
(06:33):
on the other side. AOC who has the advantage of
not having to to do politics but really to do
social media.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
She doesn't have to pass legislation, she doesn't have to
think about bills and laws. She just has to do
like Instagram videos and like tweet and go on MSNBC
even though no one's watching. And she is very upset
about humor backing down and being willing to back the
GOP bill. This is eleven hit it.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
This Republican extreme spending bill removes all of the guardrails
and all of the accountability measures to ensure that money
is being spent in the way that Congress has directed
for it to be spent. This turns the federal government
into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
It sacrifices congressional authority, and it is deeply partisan, and
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so to me, it is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats
would vote to hand the few pieces of leverage that
we have away for free when we've been sent here
to protect Social Security, protect Medicaid, and protect Medicare.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Elections have consequences, AOC. That's really the problem here in
the minority. The last election, the American people spoke loudly
and clearly about which party they want to be in control,
and the GOP is going forward with the agenda. So
I think this is a very good thing. I think
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this is something well. If there had been a shutdown,
Tchumor would have gotten the blame for it. The Democrats
would have been even more messed up than they are.
Is that even really possible? My old this cut seventeen,
My old table mate at Real News, se cup, old
(08:27):
friend of mine. She's even to saying on CNN and
she like the Democrats total mess right now play it.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
It is shocking how Democrats have not figured out what
is coming down the pike. It is March, you know
the spending fight is coming, and you know Republicans have
a majority. I don't understand for all the chaos on
the right. Democrats are a mess. They haven't figured out.
It's not how they're gonna fight Donald Trump yet, they
haven't even figured out if they're gonna fight Donald Trump's agenda.
(08:55):
They've got to get it together and get on the
same page and figure out a roadmap going forward because
the chaos is going to be daily, there's going to
be incoming for months, and they are not on the
same page at all.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
That's clear.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, they got nothing right. I mean, I don't think
the Republicans are in chaos at all. Really. I think
that this administration is operating as close to a Swiss
watch as anyone could imagine, given the scope of what
they're trying to accomplish. And part of the strategy is
everything everywhere, all at once, and it's working because Democrats
(09:31):
are in complete disarray, a total mess. They don't know
what to do, so much so that some of them
are calling in sick and I'm not exaggerating, or maybe
they're calling in for a vacation. Here is MSNBC's This
is twenty four MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. He just can't handle
it anymore. Democrats are getting the butts kicked so badly.
(09:51):
He's taking a vacation because he just they we've broken
and play it.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Well, here's the thing. This is day fifty two. I
thought it was day ninety two. It turns out it's
day fifty two, Rachel. And I'm exhausted at day fifty two.
And so I'm going to take next week off. And
I'm telling you that now because I know you don't
like it when I just drift away and I don't
just taking next week off, then then I could come back.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Honestly, the smart Democrat pundits right now should probably all
take a vacation for a week or five or more
because they just have absolutely no way of opposing, slowing down,
or doing anything to stop the Trump agenda, with the
exception of we're going to get into this. These judges,
(10:45):
the judges are a big problem right now, these universal injunctions.
It is unconstitutional, it is overreach, it is madness. So
that's MSNBC, the pundits, the media apparatus of the Democrats
all completely I would say, largely irrelevant at this point.
That don't really they'll come back, I know, but right
(11:05):
now they are. It's like they're all on vacation, or
they'd be better off if they were all on vacation
because they can't make sound arguments. They look like deer
in the headlights. But they're relying a lot. The Democrats
are relying almost entirely on the activist judges, all Obama
and Biden appointees, these activist federal judges who are just
(11:28):
overriding and overruling presidential prerogative on a regular basis. Now
this is a central fight for the Trump administration and
really for the country, because you're seeing this tested in
a variety of ways. If the President of the United
States isn't really the CEO of the executive branch, meaning
(11:51):
that he can fire people, he can make changes to personnel,
then where is what's the point of the election? If
they're on autopilot. If Congress gets to say, here's this thing,
no one's in charge of it, but we funded it,
and no one can make any changes to it in
the executive branch, it's on some weird autopilot swamp tour.
(12:15):
Why do we have elections? What is the purpose of
going through the billions of dollars spent for this last
election cycle? If DC runs itself, essentially, it's just endless
funding from Congress, hurtling us over the cliff of fiscal insanity,
and anyone who tries to stop it is told, no,
(12:35):
you're not allowed to stop it. The system is self aware.
The system is Skynet from terminator, and it will destroy
us all before you're allowed to do anything to it.
This is a big deal, and I'll get it to
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Speaker 1 (14:02):
All right, welcome back in. We are going to have
quite a show for you today. First off, I want
to tell you who the guests will be on the program.
Our friend Tutor Dixon will be in the mix in
the third hour. She is in Michigan. Jd Vance, the
Vice President's there. They're going to be together at an
event looking at Trump's plans for manufacturing, increasing domestic production,
(14:25):
boosting the economy with it, jobs, wages, all that good stuff.
So we'll talk to Tutor about that her event with
the Vice President, and then we've also we've also got
joining us for the first time on the program, the
Deputy White House Press Secretary, which will also be quite
(14:45):
a discussion looking forward to that. So we've got a
lot going on, my friends, And yeah, it was really
funny some of you are just noting now that. Yeah,
Anna Kelly, by the way, will we join us, wis
press secon or the the The attitude over at MSNBC
is more or less what you would expect given how
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things have have been unfolding for Democrats lately. And honestly,
I can't really I can't really blame them. They've they've
got nothing right now and all of their usual moves
aren't actually working. This is something that has been coming
for a long time. I think the Democrats have gotten
(15:28):
so used to just being able to shout that it's
all going to be. You know, it's terrible. Trump is Hitler,
he's a fascist, all that stuff, and it used to
kind of work with their own people, but now it's
just it all rings hollow. You sound it sound pathetic,
even if the audience of MSNBC believes it. They know
it's not going to do anything. And and there's also
(15:50):
the the prospect here. I think of some major Trump wins. Uh,
the price of eggs, which a couple of weeks ago,
price of eggs were high, we're hearing about a lot now.
Price of eggs started to go down substantially, and we're
not hearing about the price of eggs so much anymore.
So you say to yourself, Oh, that's the game, right,
So it it matters when it's anti Trump, when it's
(16:10):
pro Trump, though we can't or when it's good for
the Trump administration, we're not supposed to hear about it.
They're not really going to talk about it. So that's
something that is underway. Also on the economy, I think
you're likely to see things start to stabilize a bit more.
It might take a little bit of time. All the
freak out on tariffs. Oh, I'm just seeing this the
(16:32):
breaking news justin Trudeau has officially stepped down, speaking of tariffs,
has officially stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada.
For a generally great country, they've got some problems in Canada.
All countries have got problems. We're a generally great country.
(16:54):
With a great people, with great people. Trudeau is the
worst leader of his era. I think now you could say,
buck buck, that's crazy. Biden's so much worse to that,
I would point out, but Trudeau doesn't have dementia. Trudeau
is in his political prime. You could say, and look
(17:15):
at how ineffectual, destructive, idiotic, sophomoric and sanctimonious he is.
I mean, I could just go on and on and on.
You could tell that Trump has nothing but contempt for
Trudeau as a leader and as a man. And Trump
is absolutely right. So that's a good thing, and you
(17:38):
can tell that there may be an opening here for
better leadership for Canada. I know it didn't the election,
it didn't really go exactly as we want to, But
I don't know how it could be much worse than
what you've got with Trudeau. I don't see how this
could go anywhere. But up maybe I'm being a little
too optimistic about it. And what are they going to
(17:59):
say if Trump manages to get Canada to back off
on some of its tariffs, and then we have that
boost for American producers and we don't even have to
go through the process of keeping tariffs on Canada in
any long term sense. Are the people who are currently
saying it's crazy. I'll be up even the Wall Street
Journal front page. You know, a lot of concern about
(18:21):
stock prices over the Wall Street Journal, No surprise. They're
very critical of Trump on this terriff issue, very critical
of him, And I'm just wondering if if he manages
to prove the haters wrong once again, will people say,
you know what he actually there was a method to
the madness. There was something going on here that we
(18:42):
should have allowed it to play out a bit more
before we decided that it was time to start completely
panicking and saying, oh, he's creating all of this destruction
for no reason in the economy. Yeah, I think we
got to put some faith in the guy, and I
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and Buck. Let's get into the central challenge right now,
facing the Trump agenda and the effort to cut the
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waste and rein in the government, the madness from DC
the Leviathan to constrain the Leviathan finally, and that is
now getting jammed up in the courts because there are
judges in Maryland and California who are ordering the reinstatement
(20:34):
of tens of thousands of federal workers. Think about this.
A federal judge can just say now to the administration, Hey,
you have to hire back thousands and thousands of people
that you, the commander chief and the head of the
executive branch have fired. Does the federal judge run the
country or does the president run the country? Isn't that
(20:56):
worth asking? This is what I was getting to before
you got this judge and Maryland judge in California. Oh wait,
you mean judges in versal injunction is madness because it
means that any one federal judge anywhere in the country
can stop any federal policy that he or she chooses
at any point in time. Think about the power that
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gives any judge. There's a lot of federal judges running around.
Any federal judge who is an activist sad sad kamala voter,
because we all know that's what really happens here, they
can decide that the whole system has to come to
a screeching halt out of the executive branch because they
say so, or even more than that, they can give
(21:42):
an order and they can say you have to do
the following because I say so. Really, so you have.
For example, the Trump administration now asking going to the
Supreme Court to say, look, you've got to you got
to stop this. This is this I know it sounds like, oh, judges,
(22:05):
you know in the courts, this will get figured out.
This is critical. They did this. Really, the most effective
tools they used to slow down Trump in the first
term were the Russia collusion hoax, which was disgraceful, but
they were able to put them on defense with that,
and then also these hashtag resistance judges, so many of
(22:27):
whom were slapped down eventually by the Supreme Court. But remember,
delay is the point, the punishment is the process. If
they can make everything go much more slowly, then they
get their way, even if eventually they are overturned, because
they're just they're sabotaging the administration right. Time is money
(22:47):
when you're in politics too. Time is incredibly meaningful, especially
early in an administration. So they're just trying to slow
everything down as fast as they can. The Trump administration
wants the Supreme Court to put aside some of these
nationwide injunctions that these lower court judges have issued. Now
(23:09):
this has to do with birthright citizen citizenships specifically, but
depending on how the Supreme Court rule is on this,
it could go far far beyond that, because they've got
to stop these judges from thinking that they're they're the
president basically, or that they can just override the president
because they think so. I mean, when you start to
(23:29):
look at this, how many federal judges are there? There
are one thousand, seven hundred and seventy authorized federal judge
ships across the two hundred and nine courts in the
federal court system. So if the hashtag lib judiciary is
to be believed, any one of seventeen hundred and changed
(23:53):
judges can just say President can't do that, and the
whole system is supposed to come to a screeching halt. Yes,
why isn't this only for the jurisdiction of that federal
judge in that court? Right, meaning that, yeah, if you
want to do this in Maryland, okay, but you can
tell all the rest of the fifty states. No, No,
(24:15):
this stops everywhere, because I say so, It's pretty insane
when you start to see it this way, right, Supreme
Court has nine justices, Court of Appeals, one hundred and
seventy nine judges. District courts Okay, sorry, the district courts
have six hundred and seventy seven judges. Okay, six hundred
and seventy seven judges, and yeah, that's a lot. Still,
(24:40):
any of the six hundred and seventy judges can say,
you're not allowed to do this. We need the Supreme
Court to give clarity on this, and come what may.
We just need to know because if the Democrats get
their way on this, it just means that control. You
don't have to control the judiciary or have even more judge.
(25:00):
All you need are a couple of wack of do
left wing activists in judicial robes, and they are your
most effective means of preventing policy change from going into
effect in the executive branch. They are the ones who
can more than anybody else, more than the media, more
than Democrats in Congress. They can just stop the whole
thing unless the Supreme Court overrides them, and unless the
(25:24):
Supreme Court even better reigns in the fact that this
notion of the universal injunction is just it makes no sense,
This makes no sense. So one judge can say the
policy stops everywhere, But what about the fact that there
are judges who will disagree, But one judge can stop
it everywhere. That's way more power than they are constitutionally afforded.
(25:46):
It's nuts and the fact that they want to stop
all this stuff that's going on too is remarkable, but
it really does show you the Democrats just assume that
the federal bureaucracy is a fiefdom of their It is
a province of the DNC. They just assume that anybody
who's fired from the federal government or loses their role
(26:07):
in the federal government is probably a kamalast slash Biden
slash maybe Gavin Newsom voter. So they go to the
mat on this. I mean, isn't that quite clear? And
they want the government to be as large and bloated
and cumbersome and burdensome as possible, Which is interesting because
back in twenty eleven, remember President Barack Obama, I do.
(26:32):
This is a throwback that has been making the rounds
the last day or so. Back in twenty eleven, Obama
told everybody that he was putting Joe Biden in charge
of cutting waste in the government. This is twenty five
play it.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require
some tough decisions and that includes cutting back on billions
of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about.
But what should be easy is getting rid of the
pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. Waste
we should be getting rid of even if we didn't
have a deficit. We need to step up our game.
We need to go after every dime. We need to
(27:09):
make government work for you. That's why, starting today, I've
asked the Vice President to lead a renewed effort to
hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency and department
of this government. We're calling it the Campaign to Cut Waste,
and I know Joe's the right man to lead it
because nobody messes with Joe.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Okay, put it aside that Joe Biden's more on We
all know that Obama should. This is like an answered
prayer to have Doge coming forward and doing what Obama
when he was president said he wanted to do. Now
they didn't do it. Isn't that so classic? You'll notice
that with Democrats with Republicans, they say they want to
(27:48):
do things and they try, and they sometimes will fail,
and sometimes they're incapable of doing it because they're stopped
by Democrats. Democrats say they want to do things to
fool people because they don't actually want to do them.
Secure the border, they don't actually want to do that,
cut fraud, waste and abuse in government, They don't actually
want to do that. They just say it. They say
(28:11):
it because it's politically effective for them. And what could
be more obvious than this Obama back in twenty eleven
all about he said, what every dime, every dime, we
got to track down every bit of misspent up And
then Elon is doing that with those and what are
we being told that's horrible? We need him to stop.
(28:32):
This is crazy? Why? Because you cannot allow Trump and
his team to get a win or even just get
their way. There is something just so fundamentally bitter and
childish about the position of the Democrats on all of this.
(28:53):
And the judge, I mean, I was looking through some
of this judge that wants the reinstatement of all these
federal employees saying, oh, but there's more process, you have
to go through more process. You have to fundamentally, can
the president fire people from the federal government or not
if it takes years to do it. The answer is no.
The answer is no. If you can't fire people from
(29:16):
the federal government, if you cannot remove people from agencies
who aren't doing anything, then they don't work for the
executive branch. They really work for themselves. They're an entity
under themselves. They work for the fourth unelected branch of government,
which is the bureaucracy. And just like we've seen Democrats
on college campuses across the country completely take over the
(29:38):
faculty lounge. That's been going on for sixty seventy years now,
but they completely have taken over faculty lounges at most
of the universities. There's no room for conservatism on campus.
They have largely done that in the federal bureaucracy as well.
Do you think if you're an ardent capitalist and a
right winger, a Trump voter, would you ever go work
(30:01):
at the Department of Education? Probably not. Would you ever
go work at USAID?
Speaker 8 (30:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Would you work at the State Department maybe as an
appointee but rank and file, probably not. Would you be
a CIA analyst? There were a few of US, but
not very many, mostly communists. So what's going on here?
You know, I don't know what the stats were for
Kamala in this last election. But I do know that
(30:30):
I think, if I remember correctly, Hillary Clinton got of
donations from federal civil servants, over ninety percent of the donations.
It's like the DC area voting pattern as well, which
is that the swamp, the people who actually live in
the swamp in DC vote Democrat ninety four to ninety
(30:50):
five percent of them. Say well, something's going on here.
There has been institutional capture of the federal bureaucracy by
a political party, and that federal bureaucracy has become far
too powerful, far too expensive, and just far too much
a presence in all of our lives. And this is
(31:11):
this is a critical fight. I've said it all along,
immigration and reigning in the government, the spending, the scope,
the regulations, all of it. This is the first stuff
that Trump has and his team have been addressing, the
most critical stuff. So I'm happy to see that that's well,
that's where they're putting most of their attention right out
(31:33):
of the gates. But this stuff, the lower court injunctions,
let me tell you, there have been fifteen national injunctions
or universal injunctions against the Trump administration. And there were
in the first month. Okay, in the first month of
(31:55):
Trump's presidency, there have been fifteen. There were fourteen injunctions
against Joe Biden in and see you're noticing a pattern here.
More right leaning and constitutionally serious judges on our side
(32:16):
of the ideological spectrum are far less like and Biden
just did wildly unconstitutional stuff like you cannot you know,
you can't evict people because of COVID and I'm gonna
pay for your your student loans because I say so,
Like he did things that were completely beyond the pale.
But over three years he had fourteen of these injunctions.
(32:39):
So three years, twelve months, a year, thirty six months,
thirty six months versus one month. Trump has more in
one month than Biden had in thirty six That gives
you a sense of how real this and how immediate
this problem is. These judges are just trying to stop
Trump in the most unilateral, anti democratic, anti republic possible way,
(33:05):
which is taking it upon themselves to act like little
tyrants in judicial robes. And I just hope that the
Supreme Court. I don't trust this Supreme Court as much
the Libs love to cry about it, but Amy Coney
Barrett huge disappointment, huge disappointment. Good on uh on the
you know, the Roe v. Wade. So maybe this was
(33:26):
the price we had to pay for Roe v. Wade
as having amy Cony Barrett for thirty some odd years
or forty years on the bench. But she is not good.
She defers to the authoritarian left far too much. And
then there's Roberts who just lacks backbone entirely and is
an institutionalist for the court, which is its own problem.
Now I just spoke to you about Roe v. Wade.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Like I said, we're
going to be joined by some fantastic guests later on
the program. We've got a Tutor Dixon Third Hour doing
an event up in Michigan with jd Vance, the Vice President,
so that's fantastic. And we've got Anna Kelly, who is
the White House Deputy Press Secretary. I want to bring
her on the program, ask her about what this White
(35:33):
House is up to, how things are going along, and
what else we can expect in the days ahead. Want
to get to some of your calls and some of
your talkbacks and all that good stuff. Let's start with
Steve in Kentucky. What's going on? Steve?
Speaker 10 (35:51):
Yes, sir, It's an honor to talk to you. I'm
sitting on YouTube back on a glorious Kentucky day and
the sun is out, the wind is blowing.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
It's beautiful, lovely.
Speaker 10 (36:00):
Why doesn't the Trump administration defy the federal judge? And
why aren't they as articulate as you just were when
you spoke of the reason they should defy, or you
didn't say they should defy. But doesn't the executive branch
have the power to do this? Why not just defy it?
(36:21):
And why don't they reference the Biden administration that defied
the Supreme Court when it said he did not have
the right to forgive student loans.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
I think that we're getting to a breaking point in this,
to be honest with you. I think that they want
to see what the Supreme Court does with this first
appeal to them, and then we'll have to see. But
the Democrats are forcing and I should say the Democrat
activists in these different courts are forcing a constitutional crisis.
(36:57):
They are the ones who are pushing this. They're the
ones who are making this so difficult. Richie in Florida,
fellow Floridy and what's up, Richie, oh Ritchie question, Yes, sir, Yes,
go for it. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (37:13):
My question was why can't we get a Republican federal
judge to just say no, I overrule that Democratic judge
and we can keep these people from coming back.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well, it's interesting, right, because it's like a jump ball.
Whoever comes up first with the injunction, then it has
to go to a Court of Appeals, then it has
to go to the Supreme Court, unless the Supreme Court
steps in early. So there's no preventative measure that a
judge who disagrees can do on the other judge. If
a judge steps in and says, you can't do what
you just did, Trump, we got to go through this process,
(37:50):
or at least that's what they're doing for now. We'll
get into more of this stick around
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