April 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show begins with updates on Buck and Carrie's impending baby arrival, setting a personal tone for the hour. Clay Travis is joined by Larry Kudlow, who provides an in-depth analysis of the ongoing trade war between the United States and China. Kudlow explains the historical context of China's trade practices, including high tariffs and government subsidies, and discusses the impact on American manufacturing and jobs. He highlights Trump's efforts to level the playing field through reciprocal tariffs and negotiations with multiple countries, including Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, and India.
Kudlow outlines the challenges and potential solutions for achieving fair trade with China, emphasizing the importance of intellectual property protection, reducing forced technology transfers, and lowering tariffs. He also discusses the broader geopolitical implications, including China's military investments and the strategic importance of alliances with other countries.
The conversation shifts to economic policy, with Kudlow detailing the effects of Trump's tariff policies on the global economy and the potential for new trade deals. He underscores the significance of these negotiations for American businesses and consumers.
Following Kudlow's insights, Clay Travis discusses the importance of historical literacy and the dangers of oversimplified analogies in political discourse. He critiques the tendency to compare contemporary political figures to historical dictators, stressing the need for nuanced understanding of history.
The hour also features an interview with Rachel Campos-Duffy, co-host of Fox and Friends Weekend, who shares advice for Clay Travis as he prepares to guest host the show. Campos-Duffy offers insights into the dynamics of the show, emphasizing the importance of camaraderie and authentic communication.
The segment concludes with a discussion on military policies, highlighting Pete Hegseth's announcement about reinstating service members who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. This decision is framed as a fulfillment of promises made by President Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show rolling into
our number two. We are still awaiting official news on
Buck and Carrie's baby boy. For those of you just
joining us now, I'm solo with you yesterday, I was today,
I will be and maybe probably several days next week,
maybe beyond, as Buck and Carrie prepare to celebrate the
(00:23):
birth of their baby boy. We got to notice last
night that the process was underway and that they were
optimistic in the next twelve to eighteen hours that the
baby would be there. We'll see whether or not happens
during the show today. You can follow much we more
tweeting me last night. Like trust me, guys, I'm not
holding out on you. As soon as I know something,
I will let you know. As soon as we know
(00:45):
the show accounts, We'll let you know. We're not hiding
from you. We'll give you the absolute latest. We're joined now.
I'm gonna be on his show a little bit later
this afternoon. He may not even know. I don't know
if he's seen the rundown a guest yet, but I
will be on Larry Cudlow in the Fox Business studios
as we put a bow on what has been another
wild week of stock market action, and Larry, we appreciate
(01:09):
you coming on with us. This is the third straight
day I believe that we have had major economic breakdowns
in the second hour of the show, which doesn't happen
all the time. We had an art laugher a couple
of days ago at this time Stephen Moore yesterday, please
to be joined by you now. And so mister Cudlow here,
what would you say to this huge audience out there
(01:30):
that we should know as we sit here on Friday,
and the trade war between the United States and Canada.
You know, in the in terms of like hockey fight,
both sides have thrown down the gloves right, We've got
the stare doown going on. The punches are being thrown.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, Clay, it really is. It's if you're looking for
a trade war, I guess it's China us. The Canadian
part is pretty quiet right now. In fact, Canada and
their new prime minister. But the name Mark Carney, I know,
(02:10):
the guy, he's the Central banker. Is you want to
do a deal with Trump? He wants to do a deal.
So that's not the issue. But look what I think
you know, the major point here is Trump is waging
war and fighting back against unfair trading policies and rules
(02:31):
over the past many decades, probably have to go into
the mid to late nineties. And the key point is,
first of all, China was allowed most Favored Nations and
that meant that, you know, we could trade with them
(02:53):
without any legal constraints. And then they ended the World
Trade Organization w T I believe in the year two thousand.
All right, and so what did they do. They basically
had very high tariffs, much higher than ours. Okay, I
mean their average tariff rate was thirty forty percent United
(03:16):
States two and a half percent two point seven. That
disadvantage to us was it? You know, that means we
can't sell to them because their tariffs are so high
and they price out our goods. But they love to
sell to us, and with cheap goods. Their government, you know,
(03:36):
it's a communist country. Their government subsidizes all production and wages,
so they keep the wages low, they keep the production
low because all government subsidized. So they're selling cheap stuff
to us, and we have virtually no tariffs. We can't
and we can't sell to them because they have a
(03:58):
high tariff all right, and and what that did, Their
cheap goods, which went on for twenty five years, did
great damage to America's heartland manufacturing and automobiles and steel
and you know, you name it. And the results show that.
I mean, we lost hundreds of thousands of factories closed,
(04:22):
we lost jobs. So that had to stop, all right.
And the fact is also, you know, it's not just China.
For heaven's sakes. You go around the world. You look
at the EU high taffs, and you know what Trump
calls correctly non tariff barriers, which means regulations like they
can't buy the European Union won't buy a lot of
(04:44):
our food because they have all kinds of crazy regulations
on food. Okay, so that's a non terraff barrier. Or
for example, right now, our social media companies, our face in,
our chechee companies, they're trying to put a tax on
any internet service companies. Okay, so that you know that
(05:08):
has to change. It's a it's an unequal position, it's
not a level playing field, and it's done damage to
our economy. Trump is exactly right here. Now, it's a
hard thing to do. I get that, and I think
his shock therapy. A week ago or ten days ago,
(05:31):
did shocked at financial markets and probably shocked a lot
of ordinary folks. You know, wake up call. The liberal
media is trying to kill him with it. I'm trying
to defend them, all of the bunch of people. I
think he's doing the right and and you know the
most recent point, yesterday, two days ago, he declared a
(05:53):
ninety day pause on the tariffs that we would be
charging other countries. He raised those charges, but he did
it because seventy seventy five countries came to him and
Scott bestin the Treasury Secretary in Jamison Greer, the trade representative,
(06:15):
and said, no, we want to do business. We don't
want to pay these tariffs. We want to do business.
We want to level the playing field. We want to
make a deal. All right, and right now there's a
bunch of very hot deals on the front burner, Vietnam
and Taiwan and South Korea and India front burnt Argentina
(06:41):
is another one. Even the European Union talked about zero
tariffs on all goods. That won't be sufficient because of
their non tarif perrys. But the point is they came
to us, They didn't go to China. They came to us,
and so Trump suspended his tariff charges, recip tear out charges,
and we're going to make deals. And it's a very
(07:03):
good thing. It's not easy to do. You know. Maybe
it could have been handled a little better, a little
maybe a little more gradual, but I don't really feel
like second guessing them. Trump's a very good negotiator after that,
you know, after that shock and awe, what did you
call it? Liberation today? I mean, all these countries came
(07:25):
to us, all right, they didn't go to China. What
they want to deal with us?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Talking to Larry Cudlow here, you can watch him on
Fox Business. I'll be on with him later this evening
in the Fox studios. What does a successful trade policy
with China look like to you? Let's pretend you were
a mediator. I know you're obviously skewed in favor of
the United States, but let's pretend you were hired as
a mediator. You're very knowledgeable economically, and your job was
(07:52):
to bring a solution to the United States and China.
What does fair trade policy with China actually look like?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
If I were in China mediator, I'd probably resign and
look for another job. That's what I'd have to do.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But what does a successful trade package look like in
terms of if we could finally get a resolution, what
would it look like? From your person?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I was on the China trade team yep, in the
first term. Okay, I spent two years, all right. Our
team leader was Robert Lightheuser Bob Laser, who, by the way,
is a genius on this stuff. Steve Mushan then the
Treasury Secretary. He was handling the financial companies. I was
(08:43):
ANYC director. Wilbur Ross with Commerce Secretary. Wilber was on
the show last night. He and I handled the commodity section.
We had a huge We spent almost two years. We
made a deal was you know, China Trade Deal Phase
one and was signed in early January of twenty twenty,
(09:06):
and it included provisions to stop intellectual property thefts, to
allow American companies to operate in China as American run companies,
not Chinese run companies, so the forced technology transfer would
(09:27):
go away. Anyway, we did this whole deal and they
did not implement any of it. And then, of course
in January of twenty twenty, China already knew that they
were stuck with this COVID disease, this COVID virus, and
(09:48):
they tried to cover it up, and we learned in
the next There were always rumors, and we learned literally
in the next couple weeks in January, that China was
offering from a countrywide virus. And then of course the
rest is history. Now they say they didn't implement the
deal because of COVID Okay, but COVID has been gone
(10:11):
for a couple of years and China has not come
back to the deal. So I'm saying to you, it's
always possible that we could go back and work through commodities,
financial companies, insurance companies, intellectual property sets, forced transfer of technology,
(10:34):
American ownership, lower tariffs, get your tariffs down along with
all the non tariffayers. It's possible we could go back
and conduct a China deal, you know, Phase two, all right,
It's possible. It would look a lot like Phase one.
They'd have to change their laws, which they never did.
(10:54):
By the way, part of that deal was stop producing
the parts for all and other drugs. They promised they
would do that in dinner in Blennis Aires in Argentina,
I was there as a G twenty meeting US China.
The first question Trump asked she was will you stop
(11:15):
producing fentanyl? And would mind you put a capital punishment
on people producing fentanyl? And she without batting, and I said, yes,
we will do that, and of course he lied through
his teeth. Right. This was This was in I don't know,
probably late sometime in late twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What do you think nine, No, this is all all
great detail. What do you think we know kind of
because you know Trump, well, we kind of have a
sense how Trump is responding. What do you think Chairman
Z's advisors are telling him right now in China? How
much do you think they are panicked about where we
are right now? How would you assess leverage negotiating ability here?
(12:01):
These are the US and China.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Look, the reality in the economy is the United States
with a tariff of one hundred and forty five percent,
the United States is no longer a customer of cheap
China goods. Yep, period, full stop. Okay. That will ruin
(12:26):
an economy that's still reeling from a real estate collapse
bust that happened a couple of years ago, and they
still haven't recoveraging.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The thing about she is he has economic advisors. By
the way, I knew some of them because we worked well,
and a couple of them were pretty good reformers on MINA.
But she doesn't listen to them. You talk to people
as I have, who are still operating, Americans who are
still operating in China, particularly the insurance industry, which has
(13:02):
a long history in China, American American owns. Okay, they
will tell you that she's in Ping is not just
the head of the Communist Party. He views himself as
as an emperor. As an emperor. They're running pictures and
clips of Maw Say Tong right now. I don't know
if you've seen any of this stuff. One of the
(13:23):
know all time great killers in humanity. She thinks he's emperor,
all right, and he's running the show, and if you
don't do what he wants, you're out. And so I
think it's almost impossible at this point they may be
brought to their knees on economic ground. They still have
(13:44):
a very strong military. They're pouring money into the military,
as I'm sure you know. You know, they had military
exercises circling Taiwan. The minute Pete Hegseth left after his
meetings in Taiwan. So the military side is very difficult,
and that goes along with the economic side. So I'm
(14:04):
not optimistic about this. But here's the point. We don't
need them. We don't need them, Okay. I know there's
supply chains that have to be altered. I get that.
But Vietnam, which is a communist country, has become an
American ally. They want to make a deal and they
can produce the same goods that China did. Malaysia the
(14:27):
same story, Cambodia the same story, India the same story,
Korea the same story, Taiwan the same story. It's not
like transshipping anymore, where China would use another country to
get around to terra. They're doing it themselves now. They've
grown up, their economies have grown up. So I don't
(14:48):
think we need them, and I think that she has
gotten boxed in. Trump completely out boxed them on this.
China has nowhere to turn now. I'm reading in the
papers he is going to Europe, okay, to try to
bring them on his side. They won't because they suffered
the same problem. China sends cheap goods, cheap cars, undercutting everybody.
(15:12):
Mercedes been into Europe, and Europe is sick of it.
And Europe is talking about tariffs on China, even Mexico.
All right, China use Mexico to transship well fentanyl for
one thing, but also automobile parts and so forth. Mexico
is slapping tariffs on China. So China can do and
(15:33):
go wherever they want. But right now they're at the
short end of the stick. Trump knows this right, and
he will keep tightening the noose around China. You watch you,
wait and see Larry Kudlow.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I will see you in a little bit in the
Fox Business studios. Keep up the good work. Appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Today, you got it anytime, take care of see you
later about it.
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Speaker 1 (17:18):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show Bit of
good News. I want to give a shout out to
Pete Hegseth for doing something we've been arguing for a
long time. That is, bring back all the service members
booted out for refusing the COVID shot. Hegseth has said that,
and he's apologized cut eighteen.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
This is one of the promises made promises kept from
President Trump. We have followed through at the Defense Department.
If you are a person of conscious, a person of
faith who believed that you shouldn't have to take an
experiment meental vaccine in order to serve in our military,
we will apologize to you. We will recognize the wrong
that's been done. We will welcome you back with rank
and back pay, and we want your service. So we
(17:56):
started it as quickly as possible as you can imagine.
Sometimes these things take a look bit of time.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
To work out.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
All the letters are out to the folks who were
pushed out, and we welcome him back as quickly and
robustly as possible.
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weekend host of Fox and Friends, Rachel Composts Duffy. I
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this weekend, and Rachel, I thought that since I have
not been on the show as anything other than a
(19:12):
guest before, that you should come on and tell the
audience what I should do to avoid unmitigated disaster. And
thank you also for coming on with us. You did
this show and have done this show for quite some
time with Will Caine and Pete Hegseth and now you've
got Charlie Hurt, and you've got a rotating collection a
guest host. So what should I know?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, first of all, Pete heg Seth held my hand
when I was getting my two legs on the show,
and Ainsley Earhart sent me really great advice. So I'm
going to should I just lay it out?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So just lay it out. And then, by the way,
for people who don't know, to reinforce if you haven't
gotten enough time with me already this week, I'll be
on for four hours on Saturday and four hours for
Sunday with Rachel and Charlie Hurt. All right, so what
advice did you get?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Okay, So well here's the deal. First, you got to
get a good night sleepy. It took me a long
time to figure out that the best prep for this
show is sleep.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Because it's four hours, it's a marathon. Your brain has
to be fine up, especially when you have amazing color
hosts like Charlie or when I had Will and Pete.
These are sharp people and you got to you gotta
be ready to go. So sweet, Well, okay, take your magnesium,
get a good night sleep, get in there early, get
your hair and makeup done, you know how to do that,
(20:35):
and then come with an appetite because this week and
we have several awesome food segments, so we eat a lot.
We don't think that we eat. We don't just eat.
We often order breakfast and then eat what we're doing
on the segment. So it's an eating show. So bring
your appetite. You're gonna get an eat packet in the morning,
(20:57):
which is like, you know, we have these awesome producers.
Is that amalgamate all the all the news of the
day or and the best stuff that happened the night
before in terms of clips, And so you're gonna read that.
I read it on my way into the office because
at about an hour drive in in the morning, you'll
probably had a hotel nearby. So take your time read
(21:17):
that and then just sit down and enjoy the show.
You know, Tuck Carlson used to do the weekend Fox
and Friends show, and he would often say that you know,
he did he didn't like to prep. He just likes
to see it unfold. And I have done shows like
that and I'd like it too. So there's a couple
of ways ways to do it. You can prep for
your segments or you can just watch it unfold before you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, we got a bunch. I'm gonna dive into this
in a sec. But you were instrumental. I believe in
getting Buck and Carrie together. Buck is out right now
because Carrie is having their first ever baby. You've had
a few babies yourself. Do you want to take a
bow for helping them to get together?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I absolutely will. I am a perennial, hopeless matchmaker, and
I often bring up those two when I brag about
my efforts and my success. I believe the best relationships
these days are not done through apps, but through people
who know you and bring you together, and people who
(22:22):
advise you on like what is a great mate because
they have one themselves. And so I did have those
conversations with her and riccarry and I think that she
took my advice and Buck had all the right qualities
and she was smart and she jumped on it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And now they're having a baby, So like you're helping
to make the world's population grow in addition to all
the kids that you and your husband Sean have brought
into the world. Let me ask you about this, what's
it like to be married to a member of the cabinet.
How has that been going for you and your family?
I actually saw your husband on Air Force one, which
is kind of a cool place to run into somebody.
(23:02):
He was coming back up for the weekend. But what's
that been like? I mean, you guys have done television
for a long time, You've done media for a long time.
I know he has the background in Congress too, but
what has being a member of the Trump cabinet been
like for you and your family?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well, it is different. You know, when you call your
husband here, like I need to tell that there's a
leak in the bostice, I'm about to enter the cabinet meeting,
and I forget that he's doing that. So there's that.
I think one of the hard parts is we never
get alone time. And what I need by that, Clay
is he now has secret a secret service detail. It's
(23:38):
not as large as Peak, for example, but he is
surrounded at all times, you know, whether he's in the
car or you know, wherever, and so I just feel
like we don't we can't have these open, honest, you
know kind of conversations we normally have because people are around
and we're just used to having our own privacy like
(23:58):
that every couple does, and so that's really hard for me.
I can't when he get and then he comes in
the door and I want to grab him because I
have like thirty things I want to tell him, and
then the kids also want to grab them and talk
to him about what happened. And so it's just there's
just not enough. There's not enough Sean to go around play.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, that's got to be kind of wild, right,
do you text? I remember reading before that people had
secret service details, they didn't want to disagree necessarily in
front of the secret Service details, so they would like
and this is in the last decade or so, is
people text message? Do you text message?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think I remember reading that that was the way
that they would have a conversation. Because my wife is
always like, you know, we're traveling or something, she's mad
at me about something. She's like, I don't want to
get mad because you because we're at the airport and
somebody's going to see it and everything else. What's it
like to have like a secret Service agent kind of
around all the time.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So I've been in the car with Sean and I
want to tell him something personal and I'm we're literally
in sitting next to each other texting each other. Yes,
but also I'm Latin really hot, like I run hot,
you know, and so like I will text him stuff
and he'll be like, and this even happened before he
was in in the cabinet. And you know, we know
(25:10):
all of our you know, you me, Sean, we are
target of you know, the the intelligence agencies under the
Biden administration. So Sean would text Bac go really, Rachel,
is that what you want the FBI to know about us?
So text fighting sometimes I can't resist, and he always
(25:30):
gives me that reminder that you know, there is nothing
private anymore, which is really sad. I wish we lived
in a little bit more privacy.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No doubt. I mean, I've joked about that with my wife.
I'm like, you really want China knowing this, because I.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Just China is fighting.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well yeah, that's probably true too, but I've just presumed
my phone's been hacked by China for years. So tomorrow
we're gonna be live six to ten. You talked about
the big takeaways for people. I imagine that it's a
great question. What percent of the audience right now has
never watched Fox and Friends. I would think almost everybody
(26:04):
has watched Fox and Friends Weekend that's listening to us
right now, But let's pretend they have not. What time
do you try? What do you hope that a viewer
would get from Fox and Friends Weekend? I'm going to
be on the next couple of days, but you've been
doing this for a while. Now, what's your goal from
six to ten am? What do you hope people take
away from the show?
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Friends? Yeah, I mean that's the real thing, Like, we
are all really friends, and I think people saw that
when Pete was going through the transition process and then
they were being really mean to him and unnecessarily evil,
and Will and I were like, you know, because we
really do love each other. And I feel the same
way about Charlie, and you're our friends, and so I think,
(26:47):
you know, we're just gonna people who will tune in
and they'll see friends hanging out having coffee and they
just feel like they're I mean, that's what people say,
I feel like I know you, And to me, it's
the highest compliment because it means they get up in
the morning, they're in their pgs or pouring their coffee
they're making their pink and they're with us as we
go through the morning and we do everything. You know,
we'll do a really hard you know, ethonomic segment, you know,
(27:08):
on sheriffs, and then you know, we're eating hot dogs,
you know, or we're you know, there's puppies on the set.
And so it's a really fun show that moves, you know,
in every single direction, and you're just gonna love it. Clay,
You're you're like the perfect personality for it. We're so
excited to have you. So bring your game, bring your
sleep you know, sleep tight, and I think we're just
(27:32):
going to go in for a right. I think people,
if you haven't watched it, you should tune in because
it's a it's a great fun show. You'll get opinions, news,
you know, tips on your life, tips on what to
do with your home, food, food segment. It's just got everything.
You know what Roll Caine used to call it, Clay,
he called it signs it and Will Caine is actually
(27:54):
much more Latin than people know, the fact that he
had that reference. That's a Saturday variety show that was
also like four or five hours long on Telemundo, And
so it's a little bit like an English version of
So bring your Latin game two today.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Man, I'm awful at accent, says everybody who's listening right now.
Well knows, okay, So last question for you. You just
we talked about the fact that you got Buck and
Carry together. I believe you have seven kids. We have
obviously a lot of people outr No. Oh my goodness.
Well I'm glad I got that fixed before television. All right,
what advice would you have because we'll clip this and
(28:30):
we'll share it for Buck and Carrie. You've been through
this so many times, now, what advice would you have
for new parents? I've got three, my wife and I
obviously you've got nine, so you've been through this a
ton of times. What advice would you have for new
parents out there?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
I always tell new parents that the first one is
the hardest, and it is the first one, So don't
don't stop because it was hard. Because the first one
is the hardest. It interferes with like it's just your
whole like freedom thing like ends right, and that's a
hard adjustment. And you're learning how to do things with
a baby for the first time and how to figure
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them out once you get past three. It's so easy.
It's great. And you know, obviously every kid has challenges everything,
you know, nothing's ever perfect, but as far as the
baby phase, that gets easier. And I would say this,
this is the best advice I ever got, Claive, and
(29:31):
I give this to every single mom I talk to you,
and they always want to ask me about how many
they should have, and how do I have so many?
I have a lot because I'm Catholic, I'm Hispanic and Catholic,
and Sean is Irish and Catholic, and the number just happens.
But the best advice is, don't plan how many you
(29:51):
want right now. Don't think about, oh my god, I'm
going to go into diapers right now. Think give yourself
a pause and think twenty years forward. How many do
you want around the Thanksgiving cable.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's great advice, that's great. That's how we ended up
with three. My wife was like not. I managed to
convince her to go for three, and I think she
would say that that's the best decision she's ever made.
So I think that is great advice. Rachel. I can't
wait to hang out with you for four hours tomorrow
and four hours and Sunday. I'm gonna do my best
(30:26):
to get my sleep and be bright eyed and bushy tailed,
and it should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Wear your sleep mask tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't even know what that is, but I think
I'm in trouble. No matter what I'm gonna be, it's
gonna be hard to fall asleep because I'm gonna be excited.
But I can't wait. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
You got it all right?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
give you the last hour of the week next. I've
got really interesting take here. The House passed a bill
that would do something crazy, would require you to have
an ID to actually vote. We're going to play that
for you at the top of the next hour. But
(32:54):
let's dive into some of your questions. A ton of
you wanting to weigh in. We try to take calls
on Friday to make sure on top of it. Greg
and Walder Bow I probably missus mispronounced that main Greg,
I'm not familiar with that town. Appreciate you calling it.
Sounds like he might be there. Greg is gone. Let's
go to James down in Gulf Shores, Alabama. I love
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it down there. People who don't know I've spent a
lot of time on the Great Gulf of America established
in twenty twenty five. James, what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's beautiful. It's a hidden paradise.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The tree ins of dollars debt that we have in
the revenue we have. Most of the people don't understand
what that means. So let's dumb it down. All right,
Let's act like the national revenue coming in and the
spending pattern is a household. So take eight zeros off
a four point five trillion dollars that's what we take in,
(33:54):
So that's forty five thousand. So you're making forty five
thousand dollars a year, but you spend six point five trillion.
So let's dumb that down. Take eight zeros off. That's
sixty five thousand, So you spent twenty thousand more than
you took in on your household budget. No worry, just
(34:14):
put it on the credit card. The credit card is
thirty six trillion dollars. Take a zero's off. That's three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars. How many households can live
with a budget revenue coming in, expenses going out, and
then the major dead.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Nobody can thank you for the call. I mean, if
you break it down on a family household basis, we're bankrupt, right,
every household in America would be bankrupt. Johnson City, Tennessee.
Oh it's a good place, good song. What you got
for us.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Frank, Well, Hi, I'm a long time listener to Rush
and now you and Buck appreciate that. I was wondering
how much weight you put in Trump's paraph policy in China.
Is that he's been after China roll along, especially in
his first administration, had a screwed him in his last
(35:17):
year with the COVID and Noan Trump he likes to
get back. You know he will. I'm sure he plotted
this out and put it all together and he was
ready to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Thanks for the call. I think I'm not sure how
much of it's related to COVID. I've made this argument
for a long time. I know Buck would sign off
on it as well. The fact that we have allowed
China to effectively get away with lying about everything having
to do with the origin of COVID, and the fact
that our tax dollars through doctor Fauci went in some
ways to expand the gain of function research that helped
(35:50):
to create COVID as indefensible, to say nothing of the
way that we responded to COVID all that's indefensible. But
I think based on my interaction with him, based on
the time that I've spent with him, Trump sees three existential,
massive threats that the United States faces. One is the border.
He's effectively shut down the southern border. He's trying to
deport violent felons. He's on the ball there. Two is
(36:13):
the budget. As our last caller before our Johnson City,
by the way, wagon Wheel, great song, Johnson City, Tennessee.
I can't even hear Johnson City without immediately thinking about
the line from wagon Wheel. But as we said, border
getting worked on budget is a mess. That's what Elon
Musk is doing with Doges, trying to save money there.
And then the third thing that is a mess that
is unsustainable is our trade imbalance with China and the
(36:36):
fact that China is cheating on trade. Trump sees it
as his opportunity in the next eighteen months to fix
three existential crisises in the country. We'll talk about that
next
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show rolling into
our number two. We are still awaiting official news on
Buck and Carrie's baby boy. For those of you just
joining us now, I'm solo with you yesterday, I was today,
I will be and maybe probably several days next week,
maybe beyond, as Buck and Carrie prepare to celebrate the
(00:23):
birth of their baby boy. We got to notice last
night that the process was underway and that they were
optimistic in the next twelve to eighteen hours that the
baby would be there. We'll see whether or not happens
during the show today. You can follow much we more
tweeting me last night. Like trust me, guys, I'm not
holding out on you. As soon as I know something,
I will let you know. As soon as we know
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the show accounts, We'll let you know. We're not hiding
from you. We'll give you the absolute latest. We're joined now.
I'm gonna be on his show a little bit later
this afternoon. He may not even know. I don't know
if he's seen the rundown a guest yet, but I
will be on Larry Cudlow in the Fox Business studios
as we put a bow on what has been another
wild week of stock market action, and Larry, we appreciate
(01:09):
you coming on with us. This is the third straight
day I believe that we have had major economic breakdowns
in the second hour of the show, which doesn't happen
all the time. We had an art laugher a couple
of days ago at this time Stephen Moore yesterday, please
to be joined by you now. And so mister Cudlow here,
what would you say to this huge audience out there
(01:30):
that we should know as we sit here on Friday,
and the trade war between the United States and Canada.
You know, in the in terms of like hockey fight,
both sides have thrown down the gloves right, We've got
the stare doown going on. The punches are being thrown.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Well, Clay, it really is. It's if you're looking for
a trade war, I guess it's China us. The Canadian
part is pretty quiet right now. In fact, Canada and
their new prime minister. But the name Mark Carney, I know,
(02:10):
the guy, he's the Central banker. Is you want to
do a deal with Trump? He wants to do a deal.
So that's not the issue. But look what I think
you know, the major point here is Trump is waging
war and fighting back against unfair trading policies and rules
(02:31):
over the past many decades, probably have to go into
the mid to late nineties. And the key point is,
first of all, China was allowed most Favored Nations and
that meant that, you know, we could trade with them
(02:53):
without any legal constraints. And then they ended the World
Trade Organization w T I believe in the year two thousand.
All right, and so what did they do. They basically
had very high tariffs, much higher than ours. Okay, I
mean their average tariff rate was thirty forty percent United
(03:16):
States two and a half percent two point seven. That
disadvantage to us was it? You know, that means we
can't sell to them because their tariffs are so high
and they price out our goods. But they love to
sell to us, and with cheap goods. Their government, you know,
(03:36):
it's a communist country. Their government subsidizes all production and wages,
so they keep the wages low, they keep the production
low because all government subsidized. So they're selling cheap stuff
to us, and we have virtually no tariffs. We can't
and we can't sell to them because they have a
(03:58):
high tariff all right, and and what that did, Their
cheap goods, which went on for twenty five years, did
great damage to America's heartland manufacturing and automobiles and steel
and you know, you name it. And the results show that.
I mean, we lost hundreds of thousands of factories closed,
(04:22):
we lost jobs. So that had to stop, all right.
And the fact is also, you know, it's not just China.
For heaven's sakes. You go around the world. You look
at the EU high taffs, and you know what Trump
calls correctly non tariff barriers, which means regulations like they
can't buy the European Union won't buy a lot of
(04:44):
our food because they have all kinds of crazy regulations
on food. Okay, so that's a non terraff barrier. Or
for example, right now, our social media companies, our face in,
our chechee companies, they're trying to put a tax on
any internet service companies. Okay, so that you know that
(05:08):
has to change. It's a it's an unequal position, it's
not a level playing field, and it's done damage to
our economy. Trump is exactly right here. Now, it's a
hard thing to do. I get that, and I think
his shock therapy. A week ago or ten days ago,
(05:31):
did shocked at financial markets and probably shocked a lot
of ordinary folks. You know, wake up call. The liberal
media is trying to kill him with it. I'm trying
to defend them, all of the bunch of people. I
think he's doing the right and and you know the
most recent point, yesterday, two days ago, he declared a
(05:53):
ninety day pause on the tariffs that we would be
charging other countries. He raised those charges, but he did
it because seventy seventy five countries came to him and
Scott bestin the Treasury Secretary in Jamison Greer, the trade representative,
(06:15):
and said, no, we want to do business. We don't
want to pay these tariffs. We want to do business.
We want to level the playing field. We want to
make a deal. All right, and right now there's a
bunch of very hot deals on the front burner, Vietnam
and Taiwan and South Korea and India front burnt Argentina
(06:41):
is another one. Even the European Union talked about zero
tariffs on all goods. That won't be sufficient because of
their non tarif perrys. But the point is they came
to us, They didn't go to China. They came to us,
and so Trump suspended his tariff charges, recip tear out charges,
and we're going to make deals. And it's a very
(07:03):
good thing. It's not easy to do. You know. Maybe
it could have been handled a little better, a little
maybe a little more gradual, but I don't really feel
like second guessing them. Trump's a very good negotiator after that,
you know, after that shock and awe, what did you
call it? Liberation today? I mean, all these countries came
(07:25):
to us, all right, they didn't go to China. What
they want to deal with us?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Talking to Larry Cudlow here, you can watch him on
Fox Business. I'll be on with him later this evening
in the Fox studios. What does a successful trade policy
with China look like to you? Let's pretend you were
a mediator. I know you're obviously skewed in favor of
the United States, but let's pretend you were hired as
a mediator. You're very knowledgeable economically, and your job was
(07:52):
to bring a solution to the United States and China.
What does fair trade policy with China actually look like?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
If I were in China mediator, I'd probably resign and
look for another job. That's what I'd have to do.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
But what does a successful trade package look like in
terms of if we could finally get a resolution, what
would it look like? From your person?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I was on the China trade team yep, in the
first term. Okay, I spent two years, all right. Our
team leader was Robert Lightheuser Bob Laser, who, by the way,
is a genius on this stuff. Steve Mushan then the
Treasury Secretary. He was handling the financial companies. I was
(08:43):
ANYC director. Wilbur Ross with Commerce Secretary. Wilber was on
the show last night. He and I handled the commodity section.
We had a huge We spent almost two years. We
made a deal was you know, China Trade Deal Phase
one and was signed in early January of twenty twenty,
(09:06):
and it included provisions to stop intellectual property thefts, to
allow American companies to operate in China as American run companies,
not Chinese run companies, so the forced technology transfer would
(09:27):
go away. Anyway, we did this whole deal and they
did not implement any of it. And then, of course
in January of twenty twenty, China already knew that they
were stuck with this COVID disease, this COVID virus, and
(09:48):
they tried to cover it up, and we learned in
the next There were always rumors, and we learned literally
in the next couple weeks in January, that China was
offering from a countrywide virus. And then of course the
rest is history. Now they say they didn't implement the
deal because of COVID Okay, but COVID has been gone
(10:11):
for a couple of years and China has not come
back to the deal. So I'm saying to you, it's
always possible that we could go back and work through commodities,
financial companies, insurance companies, intellectual property sets, forced transfer of technology,
(10:34):
American ownership, lower tariffs, get your tariffs down along with
all the non tariffayers. It's possible we could go back
and conduct a China deal, you know, Phase two, all right,
It's possible. It would look a lot like Phase one.
They'd have to change their laws, which they never did.
(10:54):
By the way, part of that deal was stop producing
the parts for all and other drugs. They promised they
would do that in dinner in Blennis Aires in Argentina,
I was there as a G twenty meeting US China.
The first question Trump asked she was will you stop
(11:15):
producing fentanyl? And would mind you put a capital punishment
on people producing fentanyl? And she without batting, and I said, yes,
we will do that, and of course he lied through
his teeth. Right. This was This was in I don't know,
probably late sometime in late twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
What do you think nine, No, this is all all
great detail. What do you think we know kind of
because you know Trump, well, we kind of have a
sense how Trump is responding. What do you think Chairman
Z's advisors are telling him right now in China? How
much do you think they are panicked about where we
are right now? How would you assess leverage negotiating ability here?
(12:01):
These are the US and China.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Look, the reality in the economy is the United States
with a tariff of one hundred and forty five percent,
the United States is no longer a customer of cheap
China goods. Yep, period, full stop. Okay. That will ruin
(12:26):
an economy that's still reeling from a real estate collapse
bust that happened a couple of years ago, and they
still haven't recoveraging.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The thing about she is he has economic advisors. By
the way, I knew some of them because we worked well,
and a couple of them were pretty good reformers on MINA.
But she doesn't listen to them. You talk to people
as I have, who are still operating, Americans who are
still operating in China, particularly the insurance industry, which has
(13:02):
a long history in China, American American owns. Okay, they
will tell you that she's in Ping is not just
the head of the Communist Party. He views himself as
as an emperor. As an emperor. They're running pictures and
clips of Maw Say Tong right now. I don't know
if you've seen any of this stuff. One of the
(13:23):
know all time great killers in humanity. She thinks he's emperor,
all right, and he's running the show, and if you
don't do what he wants, you're out. And so I
think it's almost impossible at this point they may be
brought to their knees on economic ground. They still have
(13:44):
a very strong military. They're pouring money into the military,
as I'm sure you know. You know, they had military
exercises circling Taiwan. The minute Pete Hegseth left after his
meetings in Taiwan. So the military side is very difficult,
and that goes along with the economic side. So I'm
(14:04):
not optimistic about this. But here's the point. We don't
need them. We don't need them, Okay. I know there's
supply chains that have to be altered. I get that.
But Vietnam, which is a communist country, has become an
American ally. They want to make a deal and they
can produce the same goods that China did. Malaysia the
(14:27):
same story, Cambodia the same story, India the same story,
Korea the same story, Taiwan the same story. It's not
like transshipping anymore, where China would use another country to
get around to terra. They're doing it themselves now. They've
grown up, their economies have grown up. So I don't
(14:48):
think we need them, and I think that she has
gotten boxed in. Trump completely out boxed them on this.
China has nowhere to turn now. I'm reading in the
papers he is going to Europe, okay, to try to
bring them on his side. They won't because they suffered
the same problem. China sends cheap goods, cheap cars, undercutting everybody.
(15:12):
Mercedes been into Europe, and Europe is sick of it.
And Europe is talking about tariffs on China, even Mexico.
All right, China use Mexico to transship well fentanyl for
one thing, but also automobile parts and so forth. Mexico
is slapping tariffs on China. So China can do and
(15:33):
go wherever they want. But right now they're at the
short end of the stick. Trump knows this right, and
he will keep tightening the noose around China. You watch you,
wait and see Larry Kudlow.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I will see you in a little bit in the
Fox Business studios. Keep up the good work. Appreciate the time.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Today, you got it anytime, take care of see you
later about it.
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Speaker 1 (17:18):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show Bit of
good News. I want to give a shout out to
Pete Hegseth for doing something we've been arguing for a
long time. That is, bring back all the service members
booted out for refusing the COVID shot. Hegseth has said that,
and he's apologized cut eighteen.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
This is one of the promises made promises kept from
President Trump. We have followed through at the Defense Department.
If you are a person of conscious, a person of
faith who believed that you shouldn't have to take an
experiment meental vaccine in order to serve in our military,
we will apologize to you. We will recognize the wrong
that's been done. We will welcome you back with rank
and back pay, and we want your service. So we
(17:56):
started it as quickly as possible as you can imagine.
Sometimes these things take a look bit of time.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
To work out.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
All the letters are out to the folks who were
pushed out, and we welcome him back as quickly and
robustly as possible.
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weekend host of Fox and Friends, Rachel Composts Duffy. I
am going to be on with her for eight hours
this weekend, and Rachel, I thought that since I have
not been on the show as anything other than a
(19:12):
guest before, that you should come on and tell the
audience what I should do to avoid unmitigated disaster. And
thank you also for coming on with us. You did
this show and have done this show for quite some
time with Will Caine and Pete Hegseth and now you've
got Charlie Hurt, and you've got a rotating collection a
guest host. So what should I know?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, first of all, Pete heg Seth held my hand
when I was getting my two legs on the show,
and Ainsley Earhart sent me really great advice. So I'm
going to should I just lay it out?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
So just lay it out. And then, by the way,
for people who don't know, to reinforce if you haven't
gotten enough time with me already this week, I'll be
on for four hours on Saturday and four hours for
Sunday with Rachel and Charlie Hurt. All right, so what
advice did you get?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Okay, So well here's the deal. First, you got to
get a good night sleepy. It took me a long
time to figure out that the best prep for this
show is sleep.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
It really is.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Because it's four hours, it's a marathon. Your brain has
to be fine up, especially when you have amazing color
hosts like Charlie or when I had Will and Pete.
These are sharp people and you got to you gotta
be ready to go. So sweet, Well, okay, take your magnesium,
get a good night sleep, get in there early, get
your hair and makeup done, you know how to do that,
(20:35):
and then come with an appetite because this week and
we have several awesome food segments, so we eat a lot.
We don't think that we eat. We don't just eat.
We often order breakfast and then eat what we're doing
on the segment. So it's an eating show. So bring
your appetite. You're gonna get an eat packet in the morning,
(20:57):
which is like, you know, we have these awesome producers.
Is that amalgamate all the all the news of the
day or and the best stuff that happened the night
before in terms of clips, And so you're gonna read that.
I read it on my way into the office because
at about an hour drive in in the morning, you'll
probably had a hotel nearby. So take your time read
(21:17):
that and then just sit down and enjoy the show.
You know, Tuck Carlson used to do the weekend Fox
and Friends show, and he would often say that you know,
he did he didn't like to prep. He just likes
to see it unfold. And I have done shows like
that and I'd like it too. So there's a couple
of ways ways to do it. You can prep for
your segments or you can just watch it unfold before you.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Okay, we got a bunch. I'm gonna dive into this
in a sec. But you were instrumental. I believe in
getting Buck and Carrie together. Buck is out right now
because Carrie is having their first ever baby. You've had
a few babies yourself. Do you want to take a
bow for helping them to get together?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I absolutely will. I am a perennial, hopeless matchmaker, and
I often bring up those two when I brag about
my efforts and my success. I believe the best relationships
these days are not done through apps, but through people
who know you and bring you together, and people who
(22:22):
advise you on like what is a great mate because
they have one themselves. And so I did have those
conversations with her and riccarry and I think that she
took my advice and Buck had all the right qualities
and she was smart and she jumped on it.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
And now they're having a baby, So like you're helping
to make the world's population grow in addition to all
the kids that you and your husband Sean have brought
into the world. Let me ask you about this, what's
it like to be married to a member of the cabinet.
How has that been going for you and your family?
I actually saw your husband on Air Force one, which
is kind of a cool place to run into somebody.
(23:02):
He was coming back up for the weekend. But what's
that been like? I mean, you guys have done television
for a long time, You've done media for a long time.
I know he has the background in Congress too, but
what has being a member of the Trump cabinet been
like for you and your family?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Well, it is different. You know, when you call your
husband here, like I need to tell that there's a
leak in the bostice, I'm about to enter the cabinet meeting,
and I forget that he's doing that. So there's that.
I think one of the hard parts is we never
get alone time. And what I need by that, Clay
is he now has secret a secret service detail. It's
(23:38):
not as large as Peak, for example, but he is
surrounded at all times, you know, whether he's in the
car or you know, wherever, and so I just feel
like we don't we can't have these open, honest, you
know kind of conversations we normally have because people are around
and we're just used to having our own privacy like
(23:58):
that every couple does, and so that's really hard for me.
I can't when he get and then he comes in
the door and I want to grab him because I
have like thirty things I want to tell him, and
then the kids also want to grab them and talk
to him about what happened. And so it's just there's
just not enough. There's not enough Sean to go around play.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean, that's got to be kind of wild, right,
do you text? I remember reading before that people had
secret service details, they didn't want to disagree necessarily in
front of the secret Service details, so they would like
and this is in the last decade or so, is
people text message? Do you text message?
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Like?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I think I remember reading that that was the way
that they would have a conversation. Because my wife is
always like, you know, we're traveling or something, she's mad
at me about something. She's like, I don't want to
get mad because you because we're at the airport and
somebody's going to see it and everything else. What's it
like to have like a secret Service agent kind of
around all the time.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
So I've been in the car with Sean and I
want to tell him something personal and I'm we're literally
in sitting next to each other texting each other. Yes,
but also I'm Latin really hot, like I run hot,
you know, and so like I will text him stuff
and he'll be like, and this even happened before he
was in in the cabinet. And you know, we know
(25:10):
all of our you know, you me, Sean, we are
target of you know, the the intelligence agencies under the
Biden administration. So Sean would text Bac go really, Rachel,
is that what you want the FBI to know about us?
So text fighting sometimes I can't resist, and he always
(25:30):
gives me that reminder that you know, there is nothing
private anymore, which is really sad. I wish we lived
in a little bit more privacy.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No doubt. I mean, I've joked about that with my wife.
I'm like, you really want China knowing this, because I.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Just China is fighting.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Well yeah, that's probably true too, but I've just presumed
my phone's been hacked by China for years. So tomorrow
we're gonna be live six to ten. You talked about
the big takeaways for people. I imagine that it's a
great question. What percent of the audience right now has
never watched Fox and Friends. I would think almost everybody
(26:04):
has watched Fox and Friends Weekend that's listening to us
right now, But let's pretend they have not. What time
do you try? What do you hope that a viewer
would get from Fox and Friends Weekend? I'm going to
be on the next couple of days, but you've been
doing this for a while. Now, what's your goal from
six to ten am? What do you hope people take
away from the show?
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Friends? Yeah, I mean that's the real thing, Like, we
are all really friends, and I think people saw that
when Pete was going through the transition process and then
they were being really mean to him and unnecessarily evil,
and Will and I were like, you know, because we
really do love each other. And I feel the same
way about Charlie, and you're our friends, and so I think,
(26:47):
you know, we're just gonna people who will tune in
and they'll see friends hanging out having coffee and they
just feel like they're I mean, that's what people say,
I feel like I know you, And to me, it's
the highest compliment because it means they get up in
the morning, they're in their pgs or pouring their coffee
they're making their pink and they're with us as we
go through the morning and we do everything. You know,
we'll do a really hard you know, ethonomic segment, you know,
(27:08):
on sheriffs, and then you know, we're eating hot dogs,
you know, or we're you know, there's puppies on the set.
And so it's a really fun show that moves, you know,
in every single direction, and you're just gonna love it. Clay,
You're you're like the perfect personality for it. We're so
excited to have you. So bring your game, bring your
sleep you know, sleep tight, and I think we're just
(27:32):
going to go in for a right. I think people,
if you haven't watched it, you should tune in because
it's a it's a great fun show. You'll get opinions, news,
you know, tips on your life, tips on what to
do with your home, food, food segment. It's just got everything.
You know what Roll Caine used to call it, Clay,
he called it signs it and Will Caine is actually
(27:54):
much more Latin than people know, the fact that he
had that reference. That's a Saturday variety show that was
also like four or five hours long on Telemundo, And
so it's a little bit like an English version of
So bring your Latin game two today.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Man, I'm awful at accent, says everybody who's listening right now.
Well knows, okay, So last question for you. You just
we talked about the fact that you got Buck and
Carry together. I believe you have seven kids. We have
obviously a lot of people outr No. Oh my goodness.
Well I'm glad I got that fixed before television. All right,
what advice would you have because we'll clip this and
(28:30):
we'll share it for Buck and Carrie. You've been through
this so many times, now, what advice would you have
for new parents? I've got three, my wife and I
obviously you've got nine, so you've been through this a
ton of times. What advice would you have for new
parents out there?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
I always tell new parents that the first one is
the hardest, and it is the first one, So don't
don't stop because it was hard. Because the first one
is the hardest. It interferes with like it's just your
whole like freedom thing like ends right, and that's a
hard adjustment. And you're learning how to do things with
a baby for the first time and how to figure
(29:10):
them out once you get past three. It's so easy.
It's great. And you know, obviously every kid has challenges everything,
you know, nothing's ever perfect, but as far as the
baby phase, that gets easier. And I would say this,
this is the best advice I ever got, Claive, and
(29:31):
I give this to every single mom I talk to you,
and they always want to ask me about how many
they should have, and how do I have so many?
I have a lot because I'm Catholic, I'm Hispanic and Catholic,
and Sean is Irish and Catholic, and the number just happens.
But the best advice is, don't plan how many you
(29:51):
want right now. Don't think about, oh my god, I'm
going to go into diapers right now. Think give yourself
a pause and think twenty years forward. How many do
you want around the Thanksgiving cable.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's great advice, that's great. That's how we ended up
with three. My wife was like not. I managed to
convince her to go for three, and I think she
would say that that's the best decision she's ever made.
So I think that is great advice. Rachel. I can't
wait to hang out with you for four hours tomorrow
and four hours and Sunday. I'm gonna do my best
(30:26):
to get my sleep and be bright eyed and bushy tailed,
and it should be a lot of fun.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Wear your sleep mask tonight.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I don't even know what that is, but I think
I'm in trouble. No matter what I'm gonna be, it's
gonna be hard to fall asleep because I'm gonna be excited.
But I can't wait. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
You got it all right?
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Think that is Rachel Compost Duffy. Thanks to her for
helping to get Buck and Carry together. And you'll be
able to hang out with us on Saturday and Sunday
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Speaker 1 (32:34):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We're gonna
give you the last hour of the week next. I've
got really interesting take here. The House passed a bill
that would do something crazy, would require you to have
an ID to actually vote. We're going to play that
for you at the top of the next hour. But
(32:54):
let's dive into some of your questions. A ton of
you wanting to weigh in. We try to take calls
on Friday to make sure on top of it. Greg
and Walder Bow I probably missus mispronounced that main Greg,
I'm not familiar with that town. Appreciate you calling it.
Sounds like he might be there. Greg is gone. Let's
go to James down in Gulf Shores, Alabama. I love
(33:18):
it down there. People who don't know I've spent a
lot of time on the Great Gulf of America established
in twenty twenty five. James, what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
It's beautiful. It's a hidden paradise.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
You know.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
The tree ins of dollars debt that we have in
the revenue we have. Most of the people don't understand
what that means. So let's dumb it down. All right,
Let's act like the national revenue coming in and the
spending pattern is a household. So take eight zeros off
a four point five trillion dollars that's what we take in,
(33:54):
So that's forty five thousand. So you're making forty five
thousand dollars a year, but you spend six point five trillion.
So let's dumb that down. Take eight zeros off. That's
sixty five thousand, So you spent twenty thousand more than
you took in on your household budget. No worry, just
(34:14):
put it on the credit card. The credit card is
thirty six trillion dollars. Take a zero's off. That's three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars. How many households can live
with a budget revenue coming in, expenses going out, and
then the major dead.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Nobody can thank you for the call. I mean, if
you break it down on a family household basis, we're bankrupt, right,
every household in America would be bankrupt. Johnson City, Tennessee.
Oh it's a good place, good song. What you got
for us.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
Frank, Well, Hi, I'm a long time listener to Rush
and now you and Buck appreciate that. I was wondering
how much weight you put in Trump's paraph policy in China.
Is that he's been after China roll along, especially in
his first administration, had a screwed him in his last
(35:17):
year with the COVID and Noan Trump he likes to
get back. You know he will. I'm sure he plotted
this out and put it all together and he was
ready to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Thanks for the call. I think I'm not sure how
much of it's related to COVID. I've made this argument
for a long time. I know Buck would sign off
on it as well. The fact that we have allowed
China to effectively get away with lying about everything having
to do with the origin of COVID, and the fact
that our tax dollars through doctor Fauci went in some
ways to expand the gain of function research that helped
(35:50):
to create COVID as indefensible, to say nothing of the
way that we responded to COVID all that's indefensible. But
I think based on my interaction with him, based on
the time that I've spent with him, Trump sees three existential,
massive threats that the United States faces. One is the border.
He's effectively shut down the southern border. He's trying to
deport violent felons. He's on the ball there. Two is
(36:13):
the budget. As our last caller before our Johnson City,
by the way, wagon Wheel, great song, Johnson City, Tennessee.
I can't even hear Johnson City without immediately thinking about
the line from wagon Wheel. But as we said, border
getting worked on budget is a mess. That's what Elon
Musk is doing with Doges, trying to save money there.
And then the third thing that is a mess that
is unsustainable is our trade imbalance with China and the
(36:36):
fact that China is cheating on trade. Trump sees it
as his opportunity in the next eighteen months to fix
three existential crisises in the country. We'll talk about that
next
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