March 17, 2025 • 36 mins
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show welcomes dozens and dozens of new affiliates across the country. Clay is back from Steamboat Springs, CO where he met a lot of listeners. Opposition to President Trump coming from resistance judges. Blockbuster Supreme Court decision. Buck is going to fill out a bracket for March Madness. NCAA tournament. Clay predicts Florida Gaters to win it all. Democrats' post-mortem. Mika Brzezinski and CNN's Manu Raju on disapproval polls. We don't just talk to right-wingers or Trump voters. We talk to everyone. Hundreds of illegal alien gang members deported to El Salvador. Alien Enemies Act of 1798. President Nayib Bukele. What power do federal judges have? President Biden's autopen invalid? Buck's shooting training with DJ Shipley and Seal Team Six in North Carolina: GBRSgroup.com Clay loved the latest episode of The White Lotus episode - "most amazing monologue of all time." HBO and Hulu. The Hills Have Eyes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Excited to be
back with all of you. I was with my kids
on spring break last week. Had an awesome time out
in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and also in San Francisco, believe
it or not, visiting colleges with my oldest and then skiing.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
With the family.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I do not ski, Buck, but Laura Travis is an adroit,
adept skier, and so are the Travis boys.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So anyway, they were out on the slopes. It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I met a lot of our listeners all over Steamboat
Springs in particular, which is a big spring break destination
evidently for a lot of Clay and Buck listeners. So
that was a lot of fun, really cool place I'd
never been before, and we had an awesome time out there.
So thanks for all the hospitality in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was funny. Buck, my oldest, we were in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We went all over the place, and as soon as
we got Steamboat Springs, everybody knew us, and he was
like bat dad. Nobody in San Francisco was like coming
up and saying hi to you at all. And then
as soon as we landed in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Everywhere
we went people were big fans, So we maybe need
to bump the numbers up a little bit in San
(01:21):
Francisco behind them lines there, but all over Colorado, we
have a lot of people listening out there all every
single day. I visited you in Nashville recently and I
didn't even get fully out of the entryway of the airport,
like when you're walking and you see the seats and stuff,
and we had some clay and buck listeners want to
(01:41):
take a photo right away. Yes, I was like, this
is God's country, obviously it is clearly, so I appreciate
everybody out there. We also want to welcome right off
the top here dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens
of new affiliate stations all over the country.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
More and more are rolling in.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We've added hundreds since this show started in June of
twenty twenty one. We have surpassed five hundred affiliate stations now,
which is a huge number in all fifty states. And again,
dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of you are
listening for the first time in many different parts of
(02:22):
the country, and more of you will be listening in
the days and weeks and months ahead, but we all
want to welcome you. We try to have a good
time here, entertain you, and inform you, and so we
are ecstatic to be adding all of you that are
listening to us as you start your days here, and
we're gonna have a lot of fun with you. Let's
dive into some of the stories that are out there.
(02:44):
By the way, our friend Congressman Jim Jordan will join
us at the top of the third hour for the
absolute latest on the budget machinations. I'm sure you talked
quite a lot about this last week, Buck, as we
every six months or so have the will they or
won't they shut down the government story, and inevitably it
all gets resolved. He's also trying to get Congress to
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move on clarifying that one district court judge cannot just
override the president on executive prerogative issues that effectively that
could paralyze the government, and we're seeing attempts to do
that right now, and so there's legislation that is making
its way through that the House is working on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
To that end. He could speak about that, he will.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, we talked, We told everybody this is important. I
think Buck that actually opposition to Trump wouldn't be primarily
coming from the Democrat Party. Necessarily, it would be individual
judges who are with the stroke of a pen, trying
to take away President Trump's executive authority. And ultimately we
are headed for a I think monstrous decision from the
(03:51):
Supreme Court at some point which attempts to lay out
the scope of executive authority and judicial review, which, to
be fair for those of us who are legal nerds,
is a dispute and a debate that has been occurring
all the way back to Marberry versus Madison, which was
one of the seminal Supreme Court cases in the early
nineteenth century. So I think we are headed for a
(04:14):
blockbuster Supreme Court decision as it pertains to the resistance
in the judicial community, and we'll dive into that as well. Also,
Buck is going to fill out a bracket. The NCUBA
Tournament is set. Congratulations to fans of the Florida Gators,
of the Auburn Tigers, Houston Cougars, and also the oh
(04:38):
Man this is now I'm falling aparpuck here the overall
number one seeds of the NCUBLEA Tournament, the Duke Blue
Devils as well everybody out there. Those are the four
number one seeds, my University of Tennessee, fifth overall, top
two seed Alabama Crimson Tide. Buck's favorite team as always
unless he is endorsing the Auburn Tigers is the six
(05:00):
seed out there if you just count straight through four
into the top two seeds of the next round, all right,
and fourteen Southeastern Conference teams, my buddy Greg Sanki, commissioner
of the SEC, having an incredible season. That is the
most NCAA Tournament teams, including bucks wife's alma mater, the
Florida Gators, who are a one seed.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The difference in carrying me is Carrie always roots for
the Gators, whereas I root for whichever team is most
beloved by wherever I am. Or Alabama, if I just
know they're gonna win, you are on the You are
always rooting for the home team at any venue that
you have, you have attended. And for those who don't know,
Buckett never been to a college football game until we
(05:42):
started doing this show, and now he is a college
sports savant. So he's gonna fill out a bracket. I'm
gonna fill out a bracket almost all of you out
there listening right now, I bet we'll be filling out
a bracket. Spoiler alert. I've got the Florida Gators winning
the NCAA Tournament. I think they are the best team
in college basketball right now. But we will post our
brackets for you at Clay and Buck. Buckett never filled
out a bracket?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did you do it? Last year?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Was the first time that you had ever filled out
an NCAA tournament bracket in your life?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is that correctly? Last year or the year before was
first time ever year?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So Saint John's, Saint John's New York City also a
top seed with Rick Patino in your home state of
New York, in your home city of New York City.
So the East coast well represented by Saint John's. Also
Michigan States, and I'll give the top eight seeds out there.
All right, Let's go into this story, Buck, because I
do think it's it's really fascinating in many ways. After
(06:34):
the twenty twenty four election loss, you and I came
on and we said, Okay, what are Democrats going to decide?
How are they going to analyze this defeat? All fifty
states they did worse than they did in twenty twenty,
Trump wins the popular vote. He wins the best Republican
election victory when you consider Senate House and the White
(06:55):
House going all the way back to nineteen eighty eight.
Kamala Harris as one and a half billion dollars buck
to spend, which is one of the most dollar figures
in one hundred days that we've ever seen. They got
their message out. They tried to argue, oh, we have
a messaging problem, not a message problem, right, in other words,
(07:16):
people aren't hearing our arguments. That's why we're losing. No.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Actually, I think.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The results show that people are hearing your arguments, and that,
in fact, is what the problem is. It's not a
messaging issue. It's that your message stinks. And so when
you look at this, I want to let you hear this.
Both NBC News and CNN came out with polls over
the weekend that told the exact same story, and that
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story was the Democrat Party has never been in the
history of all these polls going back to nineteen ninety
and nineteen ninety two, less popular than it is today.
Let's start with the c Repole poll results. This is
on air CNN saying staggering brutal reality of Democrat disapproval.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
This is Cut twelve, a brand new exclusive CNN poll
that paints a brutal reality for Democrats as they struggle
to mount a unified opposition to President Trump. American's favorable
views of the Democratic Party brand are at a record low,
just twenty nine percent. That's compared to thirty six percent
for Republicans. It is the lowest ever recorded for Democrats
(08:32):
and CNN polling going back more than thirty years. As
you can see, the party's numbers dropping a staggering twenty
points in just four years.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, that's CNN and might say, Okay, maybe this is
an outlier. I think many of you out there are
probably saying, who in the world are the twenty nine
percent that actually approve this is the cadre of crazy,
broken brain left wingers that we talk about on a
regular basis. Basically, seventy five percent of the country regil
acting them right now. But NBC also had a staggering result,
(09:06):
and they talked about it on your favorite show, Morning Joe.
This is Mika Brzhinski saying the Democrat Party has never
been less popular in the history of their polling as well.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Listen, cut back.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Let's start with the new polling that shows the Democratic
Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The
latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of
registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of
the party, while twenty seven percent, just over a quarter
of registered voters have a positive view of the party.
That's the party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating
(09:41):
back to nineteen ninety. Meanwhile, though, a new CNNSSRS poll
finds the Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent,
a record low going back to nineteen ninety two and
a drop of twenty points since January of twenty two one.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, I think there are a lot of reasons why
this is happening, Buck, but the primary one is Democrats
are wrong on every single issue. And I think what
you're seeing is there's a certain legacy approval where people
just say, I'm a Democrat, I'm gonna support them. But
it isn't that high when you're talking twenty seven percent
(10:23):
positive on NBC, twenty nine percent positive on CNN, and
both to post record lows at the exact same time
they have nothing to offer their own side at this
point in time, which I've never seen anything quite like
this before. Yes, they just lost, but they lost in
twenty sixteen, and that was emotionally devastating for them. Nonetheless,
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right away, I mean after election Day, the maniacs were
in the streets, truly in the streets. I saw them
in New York City hashtag resistance. We're gonna We're gonna
do everything. We're gonna have the media and the intelligence
community and and everybody working to hamstring Trump in every
way possible. Don't worry. They promised, will make sure that
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we get revenge on him, will stop his agenda and
get revenge on him. Well, guess what. They can't stop
his agenda really now. The only thing they've been able
to do is with the judges. They can't stop him
from becoming president anymore. And I think there are days
of promising that Trump is going to pay the price
for standing in the way of the left wing destruction
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of the country. I think those days are gone, and
I think that what we're seeing is the recognition among
the left wing home team that the people that they've
put on the field have absolutely failed them. I have
not seen anything like this since Obama beaten McCain in
two thousand and eight. And even then, it wasn't long
before Obama's radicalism and the recognition of the growth of
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government led to the Tea Party, and you know, things
got going very quickly. Maybe the Democrats will get their
act together this time around, Clay, But I think the
problem is they can't even find people to rally around
right now. Actually, step back from that, they can't find
ideas to rally around. Yeah, that's you know, okay. Obama
won in two thousand and eight. You had a huge
(12:16):
financial collapse, you know, the problems of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. He was very lucky with the timing in
a lot of ways. He comes in. Republicans still believed
in what they had believed in before. Maybe they'd learned
some painful lessons about interventionism, but it wasn't oh my gosh,
nobody thinks that we should have a secure border. In fact,
Obama won on traditional marriage and a secure border and
(12:38):
cutting waste in government. He pushed ideas to become president
that he didn't believe in at all, but those were
popular ideas. The problem Democrats face right now is the
party was hired, Their party was hijacked.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Meaning they were in control. Right It wasn't just a faction.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The faction had seized the cockpit of the plane by
the lunatics, and they won't move off these lunatic ideas.
The ideas are not popular that they push. Can let's
talk about this when we come back for a moment.
Can you think it's it's unheard of, I think for
a party to destroy itself like this such that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Can you even think of anything that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Democrats are right on right now? I mean, it's fairly
commonplace for people out there to say, hey, you know,
I agree with the Republicans on this, the Democrats on that.
That's how elections are decided. Right now, I can't even
think of anything that Democrats are right on right now
where I look at it, you know, say, hey, you
(13:39):
know what, maybe the evidence, maybe the data, maybe the
argument itself is a little bit more on their side
than on.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The Republican side.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't even know where they fight right now, because
they're fighting on such unpopular ground that the vast majority
seventy five percent of Americans roll their eyes at. Trump
has absorbed some of the best ideas that were not
left wing entirely but had a lot of support on
the left. Ideas like hey, the working class in this
(14:10):
country needs to not be fed into the financial wood
chipper so that we can get cheap stuff from China. Right,
that used to be more of a center left issue
in the Bush era Republican Party. When you say this, now,
I think there's always this rejection. Oh no, that's not no, No,
I'm not talking about Trump's Republican Party, which is what
it has been for a decade. Now, I'm talking about
(14:30):
before that, even some of the health stuff. Look at
RFK Junior, look at non interventionism, non interventionism which I
think Tulsi Gabbard represents in some way in this new
Trump administration, among others. But Clay, non interventionism used to
be considered part and parcel of the peace movement in
many ways in this country, right or the people that
(14:50):
like the code Pink types almost And now we know
that was all a fraud. Whole other conversation, So yes,
we will talk more about about that. And also team
pulled Bill maher Batia sunger Argum. Did you see I
saw it over the weekend. Yes, we should pull that
if we don't have it. She talked to Bill said,
don't you regret voting for Trump? And she just which
(15:12):
I was shocked he went in that direction, because no, actually,
Trump voters are all doing backflips. They don't regret it
at all. They the problem is they're hoping they don't
pull a hammy when they do the backflip. Like I've
never seen so many happy Trump voters in my life.
We should get into that here and just a little bit.
You know, there's a compelling video online that talks about
a prediction, a prediction of disruption to our economy in
(15:33):
the future. Look, I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but I
certainly trust the person who made the prediction because it's
my dad, Mason Sexton Senior. This is my father's area
of expertise the financial markets and how they affect everyday Americans,
and I think it could be really helpful for you
growing up. My dad was a stock market guy, and
he became famous when I was a kid back in
the eighties for calling the crash of eighty seven in
(15:55):
advance on TV. He nailed it, and since then he's
been advised some of the biggest hedge funds in the world.
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
We're talking about the fortunes of the Democrat Party and
the Republican Party simultaneously. And Clay, you know, not only
we should dive into this some more. Not only are
the Democrats at the lowest point that they have been
in the history of this kind of pulling, Trump is
at his highest approval rating. So to our point before
(16:55):
about the sense of despair, the del it's just despair
that is growing among so many Democrats and activists and
lunatics who have been doing so much to harm this
country for so long. Clay, It's one thing when your
party's in a rough spot. It's another thing when the
party is that that opposes you is in its best position, right,
(17:16):
So you really have to look at the at the
full gap between the two. It's not even just Republicans
are at all. I'm sorry, Democrats are at an all
time low. Trump is at an all time high right now.
It is really extraordinary. And you know, again I've been
saying for a while, and I think it's true. We're
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not just talking to right wingers on this show. We're
talking to seventy five percent of saying Americans. There's about
twenty five percent of people out there that have lost
their minds. Trump is speaking to the other seventy five percent.
And I know there are a lot of you out
there right now who weren't Trump voters in twenty sixteen
that are listening to us right now, and you're saying, hey,
(17:58):
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back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton show. We got a
lot to talk about Venezuelan, big time bat over the
deportation of those illegals. We'll get into that, Buck, did
(19:04):
you see this just happened? I think that like the
last half hour, the White House has released a video
to closing time which has the memorable line you you know, uh,
you don't have to stay here, but you can't. Oh sorry,
you don't have to go to stay here?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, of the Venezuelans being deported. It is going to
go viral on a level that I'm just telling you
it is amazing, whoever whoever on the social media team
at the White House, and it's from the White House
official account, And in fact, let's let's dive into that
here for just a sec because I do think, Buck,
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this is going to turn into a big, a big
storyline going forward. For those of you over the weekend
who were not aware, there were two hundred plus violent
rapist felons, criminals who were illegally in the country, many
of whom were Venezuelan gang members, and Trump put them
(20:07):
on a plane to deport them. And as they were
being deported, a federal district court judge came out and said, no,
you can't deport these guys. You have to bring them
back to the United States. The Trump team because the flight,
they said, had already reached international waters. They said, no,
(20:32):
we're not going to comply with this federal court district
Federal district Court judges order, and they deported all of
the two hundred to I believe Nicaragua, where they have
been taken into a prison. Now in university. I thought
it was because my apologies, okay, we have talked about
(20:57):
this before.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
When I practice law in the United States, Virgin Islands.
The prisons that exist in the United States Virgin Islands
are terrifying. That is still under the United States flag,
but you do not want to be in an outside
of the continental United States prison prisoners get scared when
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they find out that they are going to be put
in prisons like these in El Salvador as just happened.
And so there is going to be a major court
battle over this and other issues because many of these
federal district court judges have decided they are the resistance
to the Trump regime. But we just talked about the
(21:43):
fact that the Democrat Party's overall favorability has collapsed to
levels never seen before. And right now the district court judges,
many of them appointed by Obama, they are the front
lines of the resistance and they are trying to stop
what Trump is doing. We're going to talk to Congress
and Jim Jordan about that in the third hour and
what can be done or what Congress is trying to
(22:05):
do on that. But first I think this you're laying
this out, but this new approach to dealing with Remember,
these are criminal, illegal aliens in this gang, which is
a designated terrorist organization, and the Trump administration is using
a long standing power of the President of the Alien
(22:28):
Enemies Act to deal with them so effectively. If you're
an illegal alien and you're a part of al Qaida,
or you're a part of Trenda Aragua, you could find
yourself sent down to Al Salvador, to this particular prison.
Keep in mind, Al Salvador now very safe place with
a very happy populace. It's not like you're being sent
to some country that is a mess and has this
(22:52):
huge crime problem and it doesn't have those things. Because
of the giant prison that they've put all these different
gang members into. Buquale has created this system where if
you think you're going to prey upon the citizens of
Al Salvador as a gang member anymore, you're going to
find yourself in this prison. It's going to be miserable
and a lot of them are never getting out. A
lot of them have done absolutely horrible things. But Marco
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Rubio put this out. He said, we have sent two
dangerous top MS thirteen leaders, plus twenty one of its
most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador, as
promised by the President. We sent over two hundred and
fifty alien enemy members of trended Aragua, which Al Salvador
has agreed to hold in their very good jails at
a fair price. That will also save our taxpayer dollars.
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President Buqueli is a strong leader, he's also a great friend,
so this is also Doge approved. It will save money.
The amount of money to send these people to prison
in the US is a tremendous amount, by the way,
per person, so a lot cheaper in El Salvador. Well,
this also puts Democrats in a really challenging position. Are
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you going to come out aggressively and say, hey, the illegal,
violent felon criminal gang members have to be brought back
to the United States, or are you going to just
kind of pretend that this story doesn't exist. Or and
this is the pathway that I think they're going to
take Trump Buck. I think they're going to argue that
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Trump is a fascist dictator who is not obeying the
rulings of the federal judiciary and that as a result,
this is a sign of his overreaching power. Now they're
going to try, I think, to make that argument without
(24:40):
looking at the underlying decision that was made by this
Federal District Court judge and larger picture this is and
this is what we're going to talk with Jim Jordan about.
This is a really significant issue regardless of who the
president is. And we talked about this Buck when there
(25:01):
were a lot of federal court and also circuit court,
which is the next level up judges trying to look
at what was going on with the border. Do you
remember this, and they were getting struck down eventually because
they were saying, well, the president has the right to
make policy as it pertains to immigration, individual states don't.
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There were lots of battles between the State of Texas
and the Biden administration. Now all of these same judges
are lining up and saying, well, the president really doesn't
have authority to do this, and instead, I, as a
just a federal district court judge, and there are hundreds
of them, I'm going to stop the entire executive branch
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from acting based on my individual decision. And even if
they later get overturned, as is often the case, they
can really stop the gears from turning for months. And
this is what the resistance is really going to look Clay,
because they know, and this is important that if the
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House flips back to Democrat control in twenty twenty six
next year. Basically, Trump's ability to get anything through Congress
is going to be limited, and they're just going to
try to run out the clock on him. Which is
why Trump needs to be as he is moving so
rapidly because there are going to be so many impediments
put up against him. This also you're seeing in the
(26:27):
way that the judges now are going to clay. I
think people are talking about bringing you know, impeachment hearings now.
It's not going to work because you have to get
to a threshold. We don't have the Senate threshold to
do it. But there's a lot of anger when you
see what's going on with some of these resistance judges.
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And there are also people who at every time during
the first Trump administration are federal judges of lifetime tenure.
They've been doing this nonsense the whole time. Fifteen judicial
or universal injunctions in the first or in one month
of Trump's first term, versus fourteen in all or I believe,
in three of Biden's four years. So you can either
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go one month of Trump or three years of Biden
the same number of judicial injunctions given with you know,
universal universal hold.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
On things, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It's just it's just absolutely nuts and something needs to
be done about it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And then there's also Trump voiding the pardons.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Of which we should get to the Auto Department is
very very autopens. We'll discuss that in a little bit
because we're still on the judges right now.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But what really is the is a judge allowed.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is a federal judge supposed to be able to say that,
let's say, Trump couldn't have couldn't have ordered those strikes
on the hoo thies. Can a federal judge just enjoy
the president sor you can't do that. You're the commander
in chief, but you can't order a strike on an
enemy combat and abroad because of blah blah the constitution
or something. If that's the case, we actually no longer
(28:06):
have a presidency, right And the fact that eventually the
Supreme Court would overturn that judge is not good enough. Yeah,
I'm really curious what Jim Jordan, who's going to join
us at the top of the third hour, is going
to argue here. A part of me thinks that we should,
maybe when it comes to presidential authority, require multiple judges
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to sign off on a decision such as this. In
other words, giving any individual judge the ability to enjoin,
that is, stop a president from undertaking an action under
his executive authority when there are hundreds of them is
far too much power, I think for an individual district
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court judge to have. And the reason a lot of
these decisions get overturned is they eventually go to the
circuit court. And there are thirteen circuits all over the
United States on a federal level, and that requires multiple
judges to act, And so a part of me wonders
whether we should have a system where, let's say, three
(29:09):
judges have to all look at something when it comes
to enjoining the president's actions and undertaking that action, as
opposed to one. Now, well, this actually come. These these
federal judges are all a creation of Congress. So the
notion that they could be coequal with the president, I
think is inherently flawed to begin with. The only one
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that's constitutionally in a position to enjoin the president should
be the Supreme Court. Well, it is super interesting, right,
because I do think sometimes, for instance, we told you
birthright citizenship is such an expansive undertaking that you would
want that to go to judicial review, and the fact
that federal court judges are enjoining it actually makes sense
(29:54):
it's going to go to the Supreme Court. Where I
think it gets more challenging is in individual presidential decisions
of executive authority, like on a border related issue. Hey,
I'm deporting two hundred and fifty violent Venezuelan criminals and
we are sending them to El Salvador. That should be
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within the province of the president's executive authority. The fact
that individual actions like those are being enjoined to me
is a direct attack on the executive authority of the
president by an unelected federal district court judge, of whom
there are hundreds. So at least if you required three judges,
(30:38):
for instance, to sign off on an order, it would
create more understanding. But again, I think this is an
example of the direct conflict between judicial oversight of executive authority.
How much can a court micro manage the power of
the president And what percentage of people do you think
(30:59):
are in faith of two hundred and fifty some odd
violent felons who are illegally in the United States being
sent out of the country. This is a strange I
think this is a great ground for Republicans and Trump
to fight on, and I think it's an awful one
for Democrats, which is why I'm curious how they're going
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Speaker 1 (32:40):
We're gonna talk here at a moment about the auto
pen controversy, with Trump now saying that the pardons of
Elizabeth Cheney of Hunter Biden will maybe at no Hunter,
I think was he knew about that one. But other
pardons Fauci's pardon invalid if they were signed by the
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president without proper process and not actually signed by him.
So that's the key then that that creates an issue.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So we will we will dive into that.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We'll also get to some of your talkbacks on the
rest of it. Also, say, Clay, I had a great
time up in up in Virginia, actually in North Carolina.
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We got to get you up there, man, this guy
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Bringing in in terms of I saw the pictures in
some of the video and stuff like, I feel like
I'm so far behind on the shooting universe. This would
be like Michael Jordan trying to train someone how to
play basketball who never picked up a basketball before. It
is Michael Jordan's training people, but he's He's incredible. The
whole GBRS team. DJ and his team are absolutely amazing.
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shortly here to the auto pen controversy, but I'm going
to start another controversy with you real quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You liked the most recent White Lotus episode.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I I I can't even.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
With this is a family show.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I can't even tell people what happened on this episode
and the things that were being talked about.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I thought it was one of the best episode on Kerry.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I thought it was one of the best episodes of
television that I've seen a long time. Oh Now, I
was stunned by how many of our audience watched because
when we talked about this, we played the clip of
the Trump voting Texan that is in the group. It's
for those of you who don't know HBO show wildly
popular or probably the most popular. I would say show
(35:33):
right now on television, on streaming, it's up there. And
also I gave you on the wrong website, guys, it's
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just texted me like, hey, man, put the right you know,
because people are going to check it out right now.
I'm telling you they're absolutely incredible.
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If you love.
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Training with your firearms, you should find a way to
get there and train with them.
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All right, man, you thought it was incredible. I thought
my wife was.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Going We looked at each other like, I can't even
what is going on with this.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I don't even know how to describe this to people.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I feel like if they watch it, they'll be scarred psychologically.
I thought it was one of the most amazing monologues
that I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And the guy I like, have you ever.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Watched something where you were like like I meaning entertainment,
you know, like a TV show or a movie where
you legitimately like I wish I hadn't watched that. I
can't scrub that from my brain, like it was too traumatizing.
That's a great question for me. It would be the
hills have eyes, which I should have never watched. I
will never be able to scrub my brain of that.
Do you remember before the Internet really took off, they
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were those faces of death videos that were like megaviral
where people just got killed.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, yeah, I should Those should not have existed. I
wish I had not watched some of those
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Excited to be
back with all of you. I was with my kids
on spring break last week. Had an awesome time out
in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and also in San Francisco, believe
it or not, visiting colleges with my oldest and then skiing.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
With the family.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I do not ski, Buck, but Laura Travis is an adroit,
adept skier, and so are the Travis boys.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So anyway, they were out on the slopes. It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I met a lot of our listeners all over Steamboat
Springs in particular, which is a big spring break destination
evidently for a lot of Clay and Buck listeners. So
that was a lot of fun, really cool place I'd
never been before, and we had an awesome time out there.
So thanks for all the hospitality in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was funny. Buck, my oldest, we were in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We went all over the place, and as soon as
we got Steamboat Springs, everybody knew us, and he was
like bat dad. Nobody in San Francisco was like coming
up and saying hi to you at all. And then
as soon as we landed in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Everywhere
we went people were big fans, So we maybe need
to bump the numbers up a little bit in San
(01:21):
Francisco behind them lines there, but all over Colorado, we
have a lot of people listening out there all every
single day. I visited you in Nashville recently and I
didn't even get fully out of the entryway of the airport,
like when you're walking and you see the seats and stuff,
and we had some clay and buck listeners want to
(01:41):
take a photo right away. Yes, I was like, this
is God's country, obviously it is clearly, so I appreciate
everybody out there. We also want to welcome right off
the top here dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens
of new affiliate stations all over the country.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
More and more are rolling in.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We've added hundreds since this show started in June of
twenty twenty one. We have surpassed five hundred affiliate stations now,
which is a huge number in all fifty states. And again,
dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of you are
listening for the first time in many different parts of
(02:22):
the country, and more of you will be listening in
the days and weeks and months ahead, but we all
want to welcome you. We try to have a good
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are ecstatic to be adding all of you that are
listening to us as you start your days here, and
we're gonna have a lot of fun with you. Let's
dive into some of the stories that are out there.
(02:44):
By the way, our friend Congressman Jim Jordan will join
us at the top of the third hour for the
absolute latest on the budget machinations. I'm sure you talked
quite a lot about this last week, Buck, as we
every six months or so have the will they or
won't they shut down the government story, and inevitably it
all gets resolved. He's also trying to get Congress to
(03:06):
move on clarifying that one district court judge cannot just
override the president on executive prerogative issues that effectively that
could paralyze the government, and we're seeing attempts to do
that right now, and so there's legislation that is making
its way through that the House is working on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
To that end. He could speak about that, he will.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, we talked, We told everybody this is important. I
think Buck that actually opposition to Trump wouldn't be primarily
coming from the Democrat Party. Necessarily, it would be individual
judges who are with the stroke of a pen, trying
to take away President Trump's executive authority. And ultimately we
are headed for a I think monstrous decision from the
(03:51):
Supreme Court at some point which attempts to lay out
the scope of executive authority and judicial review, which, to
be fair for those of us who are legal nerds,
is a dispute and a debate that has been occurring
all the way back to Marberry versus Madison, which was
one of the seminal Supreme Court cases in the early
nineteenth century. So I think we are headed for a
(04:14):
blockbuster Supreme Court decision as it pertains to the resistance
in the judicial community, and we'll dive into that as well. Also,
Buck is going to fill out a bracket. The NCUBA
Tournament is set. Congratulations to fans of the Florida Gators,
of the Auburn Tigers, Houston Cougars, and also the oh
(04:38):
Man this is now I'm falling aparpuck here the overall
number one seeds of the NCUBLEA Tournament, the Duke Blue
Devils as well everybody out there. Those are the four
number one seeds, my University of Tennessee, fifth overall, top
two seed Alabama Crimson Tide. Buck's favorite team as always
unless he is endorsing the Auburn Tigers is the six
(05:00):
seed out there if you just count straight through four
into the top two seeds of the next round, all right,
and fourteen Southeastern Conference teams, my buddy Greg Sanki, commissioner
of the SEC, having an incredible season. That is the
most NCAA Tournament teams, including bucks wife's alma mater, the
Florida Gators, who are a one seed.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The difference in carrying me is Carrie always roots for
the Gators, whereas I root for whichever team is most
beloved by wherever I am. Or Alabama, if I just
know they're gonna win, you are on the You are
always rooting for the home team at any venue that
you have, you have attended. And for those who don't know,
Buckett never been to a college football game until we
(05:42):
started doing this show, and now he is a college
sports savant. So he's gonna fill out a bracket. I'm
gonna fill out a bracket almost all of you out
there listening right now, I bet we'll be filling out
a bracket. Spoiler alert. I've got the Florida Gators winning
the NCAA Tournament. I think they are the best team
in college basketball right now. But we will post our
brackets for you at Clay and Buck. Buckett never filled
out a bracket?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did you do it? Last year?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Was the first time that you had ever filled out
an NCAA tournament bracket in your life?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Is that correctly? Last year or the year before was
first time ever year?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
So Saint John's, Saint John's New York City also a
top seed with Rick Patino in your home state of
New York, in your home city of New York City.
So the East coast well represented by Saint John's. Also
Michigan States, and I'll give the top eight seeds out there.
All right, Let's go into this story, Buck, because I
do think it's it's really fascinating in many ways. After
(06:34):
the twenty twenty four election loss, you and I came
on and we said, Okay, what are Democrats going to decide?
How are they going to analyze this defeat? All fifty
states they did worse than they did in twenty twenty,
Trump wins the popular vote. He wins the best Republican
election victory when you consider Senate House and the White
(06:55):
House going all the way back to nineteen eighty eight.
Kamala Harris as one and a half billion dollars buck
to spend, which is one of the most dollar figures
in one hundred days that we've ever seen. They got
their message out. They tried to argue, oh, we have
a messaging problem, not a message problem, right, in other words,
(07:16):
people aren't hearing our arguments. That's why we're losing. No.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Actually, I think.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
The results show that people are hearing your arguments, and that,
in fact, is what the problem is. It's not a
messaging issue. It's that your message stinks. And so when
you look at this, I want to let you hear this.
Both NBC News and CNN came out with polls over
the weekend that told the exact same story, and that
(07:45):
story was the Democrat Party has never been in the
history of all these polls going back to nineteen ninety
and nineteen ninety two, less popular than it is today.
Let's start with the c Repole poll results. This is
on air CNN saying staggering brutal reality of Democrat disapproval.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
This is Cut twelve, a brand new exclusive CNN poll
that paints a brutal reality for Democrats as they struggle
to mount a unified opposition to President Trump. American's favorable
views of the Democratic Party brand are at a record low,
just twenty nine percent. That's compared to thirty six percent
for Republicans. It is the lowest ever recorded for Democrats
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and CNN polling going back more than thirty years. As
you can see, the party's numbers dropping a staggering twenty
points in just four years.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Okay, that's CNN and might say, Okay, maybe this is
an outlier. I think many of you out there are
probably saying, who in the world are the twenty nine
percent that actually approve this is the cadre of crazy,
broken brain left wingers that we talk about on a
regular basis. Basically, seventy five percent of the country regil
acting them right now. But NBC also had a staggering result,
(09:06):
and they talked about it on your favorite show, Morning Joe.
This is Mika Brzhinski saying the Democrat Party has never
been less popular in the history of their polling as well.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Listen, cut back.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Let's start with the new polling that shows the Democratic
Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The
latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of
registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of
the party, while twenty seven percent, just over a quarter
of registered voters have a positive view of the party.
That's the party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating
(09:41):
back to nineteen ninety. Meanwhile, though, a new CNNSSRS poll
finds the Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent,
a record low going back to nineteen ninety two and
a drop of twenty points since January of twenty two one.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Okay, I think there are a lot of reasons why
this is happening, Buck, but the primary one is Democrats
are wrong on every single issue. And I think what
you're seeing is there's a certain legacy approval where people
just say, I'm a Democrat, I'm gonna support them. But
it isn't that high when you're talking twenty seven percent
(10:23):
positive on NBC, twenty nine percent positive on CNN, and
both to post record lows at the exact same time
they have nothing to offer their own side at this
point in time, which I've never seen anything quite like
this before. Yes, they just lost, but they lost in
twenty sixteen, and that was emotionally devastating for them. Nonetheless,
(10:46):
right away, I mean after election Day, the maniacs were
in the streets, truly in the streets. I saw them
in New York City hashtag resistance. We're gonna We're gonna
do everything. We're gonna have the media and the intelligence
community and and everybody working to hamstring Trump in every
way possible. Don't worry. They promised, will make sure that
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we get revenge on him, will stop his agenda and
get revenge on him. Well, guess what. They can't stop
his agenda really now. The only thing they've been able
to do is with the judges. They can't stop him
from becoming president anymore. And I think there are days
of promising that Trump is going to pay the price
for standing in the way of the left wing destruction
(11:29):
of the country. I think those days are gone, and
I think that what we're seeing is the recognition among
the left wing home team that the people that they've
put on the field have absolutely failed them. I have
not seen anything like this since Obama beaten McCain in
two thousand and eight. And even then, it wasn't long
before Obama's radicalism and the recognition of the growth of
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government led to the Tea Party, and you know, things
got going very quickly. Maybe the Democrats will get their
act together this time around, Clay, But I think the
problem is they can't even find people to rally around
right now. Actually, step back from that, they can't find
ideas to rally around. Yeah, that's you know, okay. Obama
won in two thousand and eight. You had a huge
(12:16):
financial collapse, you know, the problems of the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars. He was very lucky with the timing in
a lot of ways. He comes in. Republicans still believed
in what they had believed in before. Maybe they'd learned
some painful lessons about interventionism, but it wasn't oh my gosh,
nobody thinks that we should have a secure border. In fact,
Obama won on traditional marriage and a secure border and
(12:38):
cutting waste in government. He pushed ideas to become president
that he didn't believe in at all, but those were
popular ideas. The problem Democrats face right now is the
party was hired, Their party was hijacked.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Meaning they were in control. Right It wasn't just a faction.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
The faction had seized the cockpit of the plane by
the lunatics, and they won't move off these lunatic ideas.
The ideas are not popular that they push. Can let's
talk about this when we come back for a moment.
Can you think it's it's unheard of, I think for
a party to destroy itself like this such that.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Can you even think of anything that.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Democrats are right on right now? I mean, it's fairly
commonplace for people out there to say, hey, you know,
I agree with the Republicans on this, the Democrats on that.
That's how elections are decided. Right now, I can't even
think of anything that Democrats are right on right now
where I look at it, you know, say, hey, you
(13:39):
know what, maybe the evidence, maybe the data, maybe the
argument itself is a little bit more on their side
than on.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
The Republican side.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I don't even know where they fight right now, because
they're fighting on such unpopular ground that the vast majority
seventy five percent of Americans roll their eyes at. Trump
has absorbed some of the best ideas that were not
left wing entirely but had a lot of support on
the left. Ideas like hey, the working class in this
(14:10):
country needs to not be fed into the financial wood
chipper so that we can get cheap stuff from China. Right,
that used to be more of a center left issue
in the Bush era Republican Party. When you say this, now,
I think there's always this rejection. Oh no, that's not no, No,
I'm not talking about Trump's Republican Party, which is what
it has been for a decade. Now, I'm talking about
(14:30):
before that, even some of the health stuff. Look at
RFK Junior, look at non interventionism, non interventionism which I
think Tulsi Gabbard represents in some way in this new
Trump administration, among others. But Clay, non interventionism used to
be considered part and parcel of the peace movement in
many ways in this country, right or the people that
(14:50):
like the code Pink types almost And now we know
that was all a fraud. Whole other conversation, So yes,
we will talk more about about that. And also team
pulled Bill maher Batia sunger Argum. Did you see I
saw it over the weekend. Yes, we should pull that
if we don't have it. She talked to Bill said,
don't you regret voting for Trump? And she just which
(15:12):
I was shocked he went in that direction, because no, actually,
Trump voters are all doing backflips. They don't regret it
at all. They the problem is they're hoping they don't
pull a hammy when they do the backflip. Like I've
never seen so many happy Trump voters in my life.
We should get into that here and just a little bit.
You know, there's a compelling video online that talks about
a prediction, a prediction of disruption to our economy in
(15:33):
the future. Look, I'm hoping it doesn't happen, but I
certainly trust the person who made the prediction because it's
my dad, Mason Sexton Senior. This is my father's area
of expertise the financial markets and how they affect everyday Americans,
and I think it could be really helpful for you
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he became famous when I was a kid back in
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(15:55):
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
We're talking about the fortunes of the Democrat Party and
the Republican Party simultaneously. And Clay, you know, not only
we should dive into this some more. Not only are
the Democrats at the lowest point that they have been
in the history of this kind of pulling, Trump is
at his highest approval rating. So to our point before
(16:55):
about the sense of despair, the del it's just despair
that is growing among so many Democrats and activists and
lunatics who have been doing so much to harm this
country for so long. Clay, It's one thing when your
party's in a rough spot. It's another thing when the
party is that that opposes you is in its best position, right,
(17:16):
So you really have to look at the at the
full gap between the two. It's not even just Republicans
are at all. I'm sorry, Democrats are at an all
time low. Trump is at an all time high right now.
It is really extraordinary. And you know, again I've been
saying for a while, and I think it's true. We're
(17:36):
not just talking to right wingers on this show. We're
talking to seventy five percent of saying Americans. There's about
twenty five percent of people out there that have lost
their minds. Trump is speaking to the other seventy five percent.
And I know there are a lot of you out
there right now who weren't Trump voters in twenty sixteen
that are listening to us right now, and you're saying, hey,
(17:58):
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lot to talk about Venezuelan, big time bat over the
deportation of those illegals. We'll get into that, Buck, did
(19:04):
you see this just happened? I think that like the
last half hour, the White House has released a video
to closing time which has the memorable line you you know, uh,
you don't have to stay here, but you can't. Oh sorry,
you don't have to go to stay here?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yeah, of the Venezuelans being deported. It is going to
go viral on a level that I'm just telling you
it is amazing, whoever whoever on the social media team
at the White House, and it's from the White House
official account, And in fact, let's let's dive into that
here for just a sec because I do think, Buck,
(19:45):
this is going to turn into a big, a big
storyline going forward. For those of you over the weekend
who were not aware, there were two hundred plus violent
rapist felons, criminals who were illegally in the country, many
of whom were Venezuelan gang members, and Trump put them
(20:07):
on a plane to deport them. And as they were
being deported, a federal district court judge came out and said, no,
you can't deport these guys. You have to bring them
back to the United States. The Trump team because the flight,
they said, had already reached international waters. They said, no,
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we're not going to comply with this federal court district
Federal district Court judges order, and they deported all of
the two hundred to I believe Nicaragua, where they have
been taken into a prison. Now in university. I thought
it was because my apologies, okay, we have talked about
(20:57):
this before.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
When I practice law in the United States, Virgin Islands.
The prisons that exist in the United States Virgin Islands
are terrifying. That is still under the United States flag,
but you do not want to be in an outside
of the continental United States prison prisoners get scared when
(21:21):
they find out that they are going to be put
in prisons like these in El Salvador as just happened.
And so there is going to be a major court
battle over this and other issues because many of these
federal district court judges have decided they are the resistance
to the Trump regime. But we just talked about the
(21:43):
fact that the Democrat Party's overall favorability has collapsed to
levels never seen before. And right now the district court judges,
many of them appointed by Obama, they are the front
lines of the resistance and they are trying to stop
what Trump is doing. We're going to talk to Congress
and Jim Jordan about that in the third hour and
what can be done or what Congress is trying to
(22:05):
do on that. But first I think this you're laying
this out, but this new approach to dealing with Remember,
these are criminal, illegal aliens in this gang, which is
a designated terrorist organization, and the Trump administration is using
a long standing power of the President of the Alien
(22:28):
Enemies Act to deal with them so effectively. If you're
an illegal alien and you're a part of al Qaida,
or you're a part of Trenda Aragua, you could find
yourself sent down to Al Salvador, to this particular prison.
Keep in mind, Al Salvador now very safe place with
a very happy populace. It's not like you're being sent
to some country that is a mess and has this
(22:52):
huge crime problem and it doesn't have those things. Because
of the giant prison that they've put all these different
gang members into. Buquale has created this system where if
you think you're going to prey upon the citizens of
Al Salvador as a gang member anymore, you're going to
find yourself in this prison. It's going to be miserable
and a lot of them are never getting out. A
lot of them have done absolutely horrible things. But Marco
(23:13):
Rubio put this out. He said, we have sent two
dangerous top MS thirteen leaders, plus twenty one of its
most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador, as
promised by the President. We sent over two hundred and
fifty alien enemy members of trended Aragua, which Al Salvador
has agreed to hold in their very good jails at
a fair price. That will also save our taxpayer dollars.
(23:36):
President Buqueli is a strong leader, he's also a great friend,
so this is also Doge approved. It will save money.
The amount of money to send these people to prison
in the US is a tremendous amount, by the way,
per person, so a lot cheaper in El Salvador. Well,
this also puts Democrats in a really challenging position. Are
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you going to come out aggressively and say, hey, the illegal,
violent felon criminal gang members have to be brought back
to the United States, or are you going to just
kind of pretend that this story doesn't exist. Or and
this is the pathway that I think they're going to
take Trump Buck. I think they're going to argue that
(24:19):
Trump is a fascist dictator who is not obeying the
rulings of the federal judiciary and that as a result,
this is a sign of his overreaching power. Now they're
going to try, I think, to make that argument without
(24:40):
looking at the underlying decision that was made by this
Federal District Court judge and larger picture this is and
this is what we're going to talk with Jim Jordan about.
This is a really significant issue regardless of who the
president is. And we talked about this Buck when there
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were a lot of federal court and also circuit court,
which is the next level up judges trying to look
at what was going on with the border. Do you
remember this, and they were getting struck down eventually because
they were saying, well, the president has the right to
make policy as it pertains to immigration, individual states don't.
(25:21):
There were lots of battles between the State of Texas
and the Biden administration. Now all of these same judges
are lining up and saying, well, the president really doesn't
have authority to do this, and instead, I, as a
just a federal district court judge, and there are hundreds
of them, I'm going to stop the entire executive branch
(25:43):
from acting based on my individual decision. And even if
they later get overturned, as is often the case, they
can really stop the gears from turning for months. And
this is what the resistance is really going to look Clay,
because they know, and this is important that if the
(26:05):
House flips back to Democrat control in twenty twenty six
next year. Basically, Trump's ability to get anything through Congress
is going to be limited, and they're just going to
try to run out the clock on him. Which is
why Trump needs to be as he is moving so
rapidly because there are going to be so many impediments
put up against him. This also you're seeing in the
(26:27):
way that the judges now are going to clay. I
think people are talking about bringing you know, impeachment hearings now.
It's not going to work because you have to get
to a threshold. We don't have the Senate threshold to
do it. But there's a lot of anger when you
see what's going on with some of these resistance judges.
(26:49):
And there are also people who at every time during
the first Trump administration are federal judges of lifetime tenure.
They've been doing this nonsense the whole time. Fifteen judicial
or universal injunctions in the first or in one month
of Trump's first term, versus fourteen in all or I believe,
in three of Biden's four years. So you can either
(27:13):
go one month of Trump or three years of Biden
the same number of judicial injunctions given with you know,
universal universal hold.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
On things, which is crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
It's just it's just absolutely nuts and something needs to
be done about it.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And then there's also Trump voiding the pardons.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Of which we should get to the Auto Department is
very very autopens. We'll discuss that in a little bit
because we're still on the judges right now.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But what really is the is a judge allowed.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Is a federal judge supposed to be able to say that,
let's say, Trump couldn't have couldn't have ordered those strikes
on the hoo thies. Can a federal judge just enjoy
the president sor you can't do that. You're the commander
in chief, but you can't order a strike on an
enemy combat and abroad because of blah blah the constitution
or something. If that's the case, we actually no longer
(28:06):
have a presidency, right And the fact that eventually the
Supreme Court would overturn that judge is not good enough. Yeah,
I'm really curious what Jim Jordan, who's going to join
us at the top of the third hour, is going
to argue here. A part of me thinks that we should,
maybe when it comes to presidential authority, require multiple judges
(28:27):
to sign off on a decision such as this. In
other words, giving any individual judge the ability to enjoin,
that is, stop a president from undertaking an action under
his executive authority when there are hundreds of them is
far too much power, I think for an individual district
(28:48):
court judge to have. And the reason a lot of
these decisions get overturned is they eventually go to the
circuit court. And there are thirteen circuits all over the
United States on a federal level, and that requires multiple
judges to act, And so a part of me wonders
whether we should have a system where, let's say, three
(29:09):
judges have to all look at something when it comes
to enjoining the president's actions and undertaking that action, as
opposed to one. Now, well, this actually come. These these
federal judges are all a creation of Congress. So the
notion that they could be coequal with the president, I
think is inherently flawed to begin with. The only one
(29:30):
that's constitutionally in a position to enjoin the president should
be the Supreme Court. Well, it is super interesting, right,
because I do think sometimes, for instance, we told you
birthright citizenship is such an expansive undertaking that you would
want that to go to judicial review, and the fact
that federal court judges are enjoining it actually makes sense
(29:54):
it's going to go to the Supreme Court. Where I
think it gets more challenging is in individual presidential decisions
of executive authority, like on a border related issue. Hey,
I'm deporting two hundred and fifty violent Venezuelan criminals and
we are sending them to El Salvador. That should be
(30:16):
within the province of the president's executive authority. The fact
that individual actions like those are being enjoined to me
is a direct attack on the executive authority of the
president by an unelected federal district court judge, of whom
there are hundreds. So at least if you required three judges,
(30:38):
for instance, to sign off on an order, it would
create more understanding. But again, I think this is an
example of the direct conflict between judicial oversight of executive authority.
How much can a court micro manage the power of
the president And what percentage of people do you think
(30:59):
are in faith of two hundred and fifty some odd
violent felons who are illegally in the United States being
sent out of the country. This is a strange I
think this is a great ground for Republicans and Trump
to fight on, and I think it's an awful one
for Democrats, which is why I'm curious how they're going
(31:20):
to respond.
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All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
We're gonna talk here at a moment about the auto
pen controversy, with Trump now saying that the pardons of
Elizabeth Cheney of Hunter Biden will maybe at no Hunter,
I think was he knew about that one. But other
pardons Fauci's pardon invalid if they were signed by the
(33:00):
president without proper process and not actually signed by him.
So that's the key then that that creates an issue.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
So we will we will dive into that.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We'll also get to some of your talkbacks on the
rest of it. Also, say, Clay, I had a great
time up in up in Virginia, actually in North Carolina.
Started out in Virginia doing some training with GBRS group.
We got to get you up there, man, this guy
DJ Shipley of Stealed Team six.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
You guys are advanced. This is like.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Bringing in in terms of I saw the pictures in
some of the video and stuff like, I feel like
I'm so far behind on the shooting universe. This would
be like Michael Jordan trying to train someone how to
play basketball who never picked up a basketball before. It
is Michael Jordan's training people, but he's He's incredible. The
whole GBRS team. DJ and his team are absolutely amazing.
(33:52):
If any of you, and for any of you are
active law enforcement, by the way, if you have any
training budget to go and do what they're doing. I'm
just telling you, I've done a lot of different training
a lot of places. I used to train in the CIA.
We had unlimited budgets, unlimited AMMO. We could do whatever
we wanted to do in terms of the training. G
b r S dot Com gbr S group. They were
absolutely phenomenal. My brothers and I went. DJ Shipley's an
(34:13):
awesome guy and it's just an incredible experience. So any
of you who are big and they will they will
do courses for civilians. Now, any of you who are
really into your shooting and you want to you know,
tactical shooting, and you want to improve of any skill
and I mean any skill level, like if you they
they trained SWAT teams, they're training their training with Tier
one elements. I mean, these guys are incredible. So yeah,
(34:35):
I was just trying to do what they told me
and keep up. My brother the same thing was amazing
and a DJ Shipley is an incredible guy, so highly
highly recommend. And also you know they've got a lot
of cool gear up on the site at gb RS
dot com. All right, so Clay, we will dive in
shortly here to the auto pen controversy, but I'm going
to start another controversy with you real quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
You liked the most recent White Lotus episode.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I I I can't even.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
With this is a family show.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
I can't even tell people what happened on this episode
and the things that were being talked about.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I thought it was one of the best episode on Kerry.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I thought it was one of the best episodes of
television that I've seen a long time. Oh Now, I
was stunned by how many of our audience watched because
when we talked about this, we played the clip of
the Trump voting Texan that is in the group. It's
for those of you who don't know HBO show wildly
popular or probably the most popular. I would say show
(35:33):
right now on television, on streaming, it's up there. And
also I gave you on the wrong website, guys, it's
gbrsgroup dot com. Gbrsgroup dot com. Sorry about that. Someone
just texted me like, hey, man, put the right you know,
because people are going to check it out right now.
I'm telling you they're absolutely incredible.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
If you love.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Training with your firearms, you should find a way to
get there and train with them.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
All right, man, you thought it was incredible. I thought
my wife was.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Going We looked at each other like, I can't even
what is going on with this.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I don't even know how to describe this to people.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I feel like if they watch it, they'll be scarred psychologically.
I thought it was one of the most amazing monologues
that I have ever seen.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And the guy I like, have you ever.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Watched something where you were like like I meaning entertainment,
you know, like a TV show or a movie where
you legitimately like I wish I hadn't watched that. I
can't scrub that from my brain, like it was too traumatizing.
That's a great question for me. It would be the
hills have eyes, which I should have never watched. I
will never be able to scrub my brain of that.
Do you remember before the Internet really took off, they
(36:39):
were those faces of death videos that were like megaviral
where people just got killed.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Yeah, yeah, I should Those should not have existed. I
wish I had not watched some of those
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