April 29, 2025 • 36 mins
In hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, the hosts cover a wide range of topics, starting with an interview with Vice President JD Vance. Vance discusses the first 100 days of the Trump-Vance administration, focusing on the success in securing the border, the challenges posed by far-left judges, and the efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the government. He also addresses the issue of men competing in women's sports and defends the administration's tariff policies.
After Vance's segment, the hosts continue to explore various political and social issues. They discuss the potential presidential candidates for the 2028 election, including Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. The conversation includes speculation about the future of the Democratic Party and the challenges faced by certain candidates due to their backgrounds, including former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Governor JB Pritzker.
The hosts also touch on the geopolitical tensions between India and Pakistan, emphasizing the importance of maintaining strong alliances to counter Chinese aggression. They highlight the recent terror attack in Kashmir and the potential for escalation between the two countries.
Throughout the hour, Clay and Buck engage in lively debates and offer insights into the current political climate. They discuss the impact of Trump's policies on the economy, the role of district court judges in obstructing executive authority, and the significance of the administration's approach to trade and tariffs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. In appreciate all of you hanging out with us,
playing buck here one hundred days of the Trump Vance administration,
and we are joined now by Vice President JD. Vance,
and we're going to get into all the successes the
border and more. But JD. I don't know if you've
answered this question, But on the first day of your administration,
Ohio State won the National Championship against Notre Dame. But
(00:22):
you had a ton of obligations as the newly inaugurated
vice president. Do you have like an official Buckeye guy
who was following you around that day giving you updates
during the course of the game. I know you're a
big fan. I've actually I wondered about it that night.
I don't know if you've answered it. I would have
if my University of Tennessee ever gets back in the
(00:42):
title game, I would be terrified to miss any of it.
What was your play there for National Title Game day
as a Buckeye.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, there are a couple of different things going on.
So first I actually talked to my team about whether
it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so
that I would be able to go to the game.
And actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd
go to a few parties, and then I'd be able
to watch the game while the president took care of
the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan
(01:11):
of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedent for the
vice president to skip the inaugural balls the night of
the inauguration. What we were able to do, though, is
before the first ball, I actually had all of my
friends and family we got basically we turned a big
hotel room into a sports bar, and so I was
able to watch the first quarter before the first ball,
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and I think it was either right after the second
or the third ball, Notre Dames started to come back
a little bit, and so I sat in a room
with like a nineteen inch TV and just sort of
watched the Buckeyes put it away. So I got to
see a little bit of it. Man. But yeah, it's
it's on the one hand, like, what a cool day
for an Ohio State fan to be inaugurated as the
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vice president and have your team within a national championship.
On the other hand, was sad to miss most of
the game, but you know, official duties come first.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Jadie, I was also happy to see Vice president of Vance.
Very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well.
I want to ask you, I want to ask you
about a border if I can, and what's going on
with the administration on Well, let's get into the next steps.
The good news is you can sit here and tell us.
But Clay and I've been telling everybody about this. So far,
the border is secure ninety five percent drop. The stats
(02:21):
speak for themselves. Biden kicked the border wide open, it
was a choice. Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic.
We still have millions and millions of illegals who came
in under Biden. What should we expect from the perspective
of building on the border successes so far in the
next six to twelve months.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up
to deportations, and the President talks about this all the time,
both in public and private. It's something that I'm very
focused on. And a lot of this comes down to,
I mean, it turns out we've got to do some
battle with some really crazy, far left judges in order
to allow the administration to do what it actually needs
(03:01):
to do. And I will say to great credit. The
President expected this when we came in. He said, you know,
we're going to start deporting people, and a lot of
these far left judges are going to stop us, and
there's no way out of it but through it, and
we're just going to have to battle. We're going to
have to win the court cases. We're gonna have to
take some of this stuff all the way to the
Supreme Court, and we're going to have to find alternative
ways to deport people. When the judges say you can't
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do this method, we're gonna have to find another method.
So we recognize that we're dealing battle here, or doing
battle with basically a massive bureaucracy that has decided that
it rules the country rather than the American people. And
I think one of the biggest takeaways of one hundred
days is, yes, we've got a lot of successes. We've
also revealed ways in which this deeply entrenched bureaocracy tries
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to fight the will of the American people. And thank god,
we've got a vice president and a president who are
pushing back against it. And that's exactly what we told
the American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing.
But I think that is really the biggest, folks, point
of immigration policy over the next six to twelve months
is to empower all of the people in the administration,
(04:06):
from Tom Homer and Christynome to the border patrol agents
on the ground to do their job and to get
a lot of these people out of our country. Now
that said, we have had great success, but we're not
resting on our laurels. Here. We're shutting down the border
traffic coming into the country and we're dealing with what
Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a
Yale law grad. And you just talked about where the
resistance two point zero, I would say is coming from,
largely the six hundred and some odd district court judges
who are regularly putting in place nationwide injunctions. What's a
fix to that? And are even you surprised by how
(04:48):
aggressive the judiciary has been to try to strip the
president's executive authority?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, I'm not surprised by it, because again, the
president actually expected this. He told us this would happen,
you know, he felt and I think he was right
about this that you know, the left felt defeated in
a certain way, that there were a lot of you know,
grassroots activists that just weren't nearly as fired up in
twenty twenty four as they were in twenty sixteen. And
(05:14):
he's talking about people on the far left. But he
said that, look, the courts are going to try to
stop everything that we do. And it's actually not just immigration.
I mean, the courts have tried to stop Pete Hegseth
from not allowing you know, transgender military personnel to continue serving.
They've done a lot I mean, which goes to the
heart of military readiness, right the Secretary of Defense saying that,
(05:36):
you know, if you're dealing with a serious mental health issue,
our compassion goes with you, but you can't be deployed
to the battlefield like that. That is the heart of
the president and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so
you have these district courts who really want to run
the country and have decided that they are actually in
charge of the United States of America. There's this very
(05:57):
funny I think headline from the Babylon be that was,
you know, something like Donald Trump considers resigning to become
a very powerful district court judge. But it's one of
these jokes with a kernel of truth, which is that
the district courts in this country have tried to take
upon themselves powers that belong to the President of the
United States. And it's funny, guys, you know, you hear
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the media and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis.
And the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to
allow the district courts to govern the country. The crisis
is the district courts trying to govern the country. And
our approach is we're fighting it legally. Of course, we're
taking some of these cases to the Supreme Court and
we think we're going to get success there. We're finding
(06:40):
alternative methods to do what we need to do in
compliance with the law. And we're just going to have
to keep on fighting this, you know, day by day,
figuring out where the district courts. And it's to be clear,
it's not all district courts, it's the far left crazies.
But when these far left crazies stop in and try to
prevent the president from doing his job, we've got to
do it through all alternative means. And that's what we're
(07:01):
trying to do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We're speaking of Vice President Vance, and mister vice President,
let me ask you about how things are going at
this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and
abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has
taken upon itself. But what we can expect now, how
much of this do you think has been completed when
(07:22):
you look at Elon and Dogje's mission. Does Congress have
to play a major role with recisions? Essentially, we know
there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do
we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I
wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes,
Congress has a role because here, here's what happens. If
DOGE and Elon find ten billion dollars of spending, that's
just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with
the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there,
and so it's still been taxed from the American people.
(07:56):
And if we want to use it to pay down
debt or to give it back to the American people
through tax relief. Then that does require an Act of Congress,
and I think Congress is very willing to do it.
But I don't know if you saw. I think it
was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that
Treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow.
And I think that's because of the success of DOGE.
(08:16):
You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these
crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding
a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for
American citizens that are going theither to illegal aliens or
to complete fraudsters. And so I think DOGE is making
a lot of progress, but it's not done, and I
don't think it's ever going to be truly done right.
This is one of these problems that we have to
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continually fight against. And the reason why it was such
a shock to the system is we had allowed the
waste and the fraud to become so endemic in the
way that we did government in this country. And I
don't think we should ever go back. And I actually
do think, and maybe this is too optimistic, that when
all the political controversy is cleared, we look back on
this a few years from now, we're going to realize
(09:01):
that doges saved the American people a lot of money,
that cut a lot of fraud out of our government,
and that even some Democrats are going to say, well,
we have to keep doing this because we can't just
let hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud every single
year become part of how the US government functions.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're talking to Vice President jd Vance. You guys have
made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to
reflect that young men are breaking for both you and
Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part
of that is because young men are over this idea
of men being able to play women's sports. I can't
believe this is even a thing. Nike, you may have seen,
(09:39):
recently paid for a study on minors to study trans
drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the
world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike
even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an eighty
twenty ninety ten issue for Americans. Do you feel that
when you're out about.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning
political issue for the Republican Party, because it's just basic
common sense, right. I mean, people don't want women competing
against grown men and sports, especially in some of these
contact sports where the women could get injured. You know,
I'm the father of a three year old daughter. I'd
like her to play sports. I think it teaches valuable
(10:22):
life lessons, but I don't want her competing against grown
men when she does it. This is just, again, it's
basic common sense. I think it's the basic masculine instinct
to protect young women. And one of the ways you
do that is to not let, you know, a male
boxer in the room with a female boxer. Just things
like that I think have turned it into a ninety
ten issue, that basic common sense. But man, I think
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that so many of these companies, Nike or otherwise, they
got caught up in this cultural zeitgeist of twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, and it's like, I don't know, maybe
they just thought the progressors were going to win, and
so they decided to fund this stuff to the hilt,
not realizing that the American people would have a rebellion
against the craziness. I think that rebellion on the trans
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issue in particular, I mean, think about this, giving hormonal
therapies to twelve year old kids, causing irreversible damage to
their bodies, forcing young girls to compete against boys in sports,
sometimes causing serious injury in the process. I think this
issue is such a bad loser among the American people
that even some of the true believers have dropped it
(11:26):
as a political issue. But I think it's our job
to remind the American people this is what they've tried
to do, this is what they're promising to do. The
trans issue hasn't gone away. You just had some Democrats
who are smart enough to recognize it as a political loser.
But yeah, they're going to try to force twelve year
olds to take cross sex hormones, and they're going to
try to force young girls to compete against young boys
(11:49):
if we give these guys power. The craziness, in other words,
hasn't gotten away. They've just gotten a little bit better
at hiding it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Mister Vice President, one war for you. Appreciate you making
the time for us today. The tarriff's issue is something
that has got a lot of attension on this show
across the country.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
For obvious reasons. People are very.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Attuned to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and
his approach to China is doing to the economy, the
market prices everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty
about it today on their front page. What do you
say to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump
away from this course because they're a little nervous about
(12:28):
the tariff situation.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I've had so many conversations guys in private with
the President about this, and I think his public statements,
I mean, going back to the nineteen eighties, this is
an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen
to think that he's right. He campaigned on it, the
American people elected him on it, and there's a lot
of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well,
Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I
(12:51):
promise you I've spent many hours discussing these issues with
Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows
exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America
doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue.
We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're
too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the
(13:13):
things that we need. And that's true in electronics, it's
true in technology, it's true in God forbid. You know,
we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over
the last few years. We cannot have a real successful,
prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for
the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children.
(13:34):
And so what the President has said here is, yes,
this is going to be disruptive, Yes this is going
to require some transition, but he's fundamentally committed to the
basic process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating
good paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making
America more self reliant. And I think the problem is
that we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for
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forty years that we could just ship all of our
heavy endstry overseas, that we could ship a lot of
our good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and
that somehow that would make the United States more prosperous.
I think the reality is that it's made us weaker.
It's made us more dependent on the Communist's Chinese. And
when you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the
(14:18):
President's trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut
off the United States from critical supplies that are necessary
for the American people. Doesn't that just prove that Donald
Trump was right? How did we ever get into the
position where the People's Republic of China could threaten the
American people with the loss of critical supplies? And given
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that we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly
right that we have to get out of it. I'm
not going to tell you it's going to be easy,
because it's not. But it's necessary, and I think the
President recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity
to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
JD. Van's, Vice President of the United States, congratulations on
the first one hundred days and your Ohio state buck
eyes being the national champs. We hope to talk to
you again soon. Keep up good work.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Thanks guys. Stick here.
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Speaker 3 (16:50):
And Clay, you're gonna be leading us here in just
a moment if you want to get into the men's
women's sports thing here once again? What's because looks like
the administration saying they're going to prosecute folks.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
What do you have in store for us, mister Clay?
That and also, Buck, did you see that Maryland Governor
Wes Moore actually said what we have said on this
program that he is intentionally not going to go to
El Salvador. Your pick to be the nominee in twenty
twenty eight, which would be you picked jd as the VP.
(17:26):
That would be an even bigger call if Wes Moore
ended up being the nominee.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Think about this. The Democrat Party has been split now
for a long time in the establishment DNC and Bernie
wings of their Party AOC is going to be the
standard bearer for the Bernie Wing. I think that's quite obvious.
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
Welcome back in play Travis Bucks exton show. All Right, Buck,
maybe calling a shot. I don't dislike this idea that
there's gonna have to be some return to a form
of masculinity at some point in the Democrat Party. And
I'm laughing about this because during the break I was
sharing with Buck a video of Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffrey.
(19:21):
Can't these like Corey Booker and Nakeem Jeffery sitting on
the steps? They had a actual sit in on the
Capitol steps for like twelve hours. Corey Booker, he's a
senator from New Jersey. His entire political career seems to
be just I'm going to do very boring things for
(19:42):
long periods of time, which I would suggest is not
a way to appeal to young people. Hey, you know
Corey Booker, He's that guy who does really boring stuff
and he does it for really long periods of time. Right.
He did the filibuster and everybody's like, oh wow, this
is Yeah. He talked for twenty eight hours or whatever
the heck it was. Now he's sitting on the steps
for twelve hours alongside of a Keem Jefferies who's the
(20:04):
Senate who would be the House Speaker, and uh yeah,
I just uh, leadership qualities not high there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Just I'll be honest, far less formidable than Nancy Pelosi
was in that role, right, I mean he's he does
not say what you will about Pelosi, and I've said
a lot, and you have to she knew how to
corral the Democrats and to wield power ruthlessly. I don't
think HAKEM. Jefferies is anywhere near the same skill set.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
No doubt. But also they're just boring dudes and in
an era where it's important and not guys that I
think your average guy would want to hang out with.
I think it's hard to find anybody in the Democrat
Party that your average guy would want to hang out with.
And let me, just as an aside here point out,
I do think that Bill Clinton was probably a pretty
(20:54):
fun guy to hang out with. There. Probably you gotta,
I gotta gonta have to sit down.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna flip you on this whole Bill
Bill Clinton is the worst.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Man the I think Bill Clinton would have been a
fun guy to hang out with. Maybe not if you
were an intern. Uh maybe maybe if you were an
intern back in the day, depending on your prerogative. I
guess Ronald Reagan I think would have been a really
fun guy to hang out with. George W. Bush, fun
guy I think to hang out with Barack Obama. I
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actually think Obama would not have been an awful guy
to hang out with. We know that Donald Trump is
a fun guy to hang out with. You can to
a large extent. I think they used to say, have
a beer with but Trump doesn't drink, Biden didn't drink,
George W. Bush didn't drink. A lot of these guys
don't actually consume alcohol. But the argument was an election
(21:50):
basically comes down to which guy you would rather have
a beer with, And I think that's certainly true. If
you look at Hillary or Kamala, I don't think very
many people would want to hang out with them. But
I would say the same thing is true of Hakeem
Jefferies and Corey Booker. I don't know Wes Moore, I
haven't met him. Buck's got a disagreeable face. We'll let
(22:11):
him respond to all this in a moment, I think
Wes Moore might not be a bad guy to have
a beer with. And I have put Maryland governor. I
don't former member of the military. Successful guy won easily
the governor's race, and we talked about on this program.
I haven't heard very many people talk about it. But
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he has chosen not to go to El Salvador and
make this kilmar a Breo Garcia guy the focal point
of his national profile. Like Chris van Holland. The Senator
from Maryland decided to do and during the weekend he
was at the White House correspondence dinner, traveled down from
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Maryland and he was asked directly by Fox News, Hey,
are you gonna go to this to to El Salvador
to check on the guy the quote unquote Maryland man.
And this is what he had to say, Governor, are
you planning to El Salvador for a grey gonna seem
I'm having a good night tonight. I'm not planning. You
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can't really hear it. There's an article up about this.
He said, I'm not planning on that, and he's planning
on having a good night, which is at the party
but he answers the question from Fox News. I think
this is smart politically. And here's the other thing. I know, Buck,
when Trump has been in Maryland, Wes Moore has been
showing up for as many different events with Trump as
(23:38):
he can. And I know that he has had a
somewhat positive relationship with Trump, even though he's a Democrat governor.
I think that he recognizes that the anti Trump crazy
wing of the Democrat Party is effectively dead. And I
think he is going to be trying to run as
(23:58):
a somewhat normal human, somewhat normal human being, as a
normal dude. I don't know if it's gonna work or not,
but I would think Buck, he's gonna have opposition from
like Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, and I think those
two guys are going to try to run as moderates
in the twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And how you're always very dismissive. You're quite vocal about
why you're dismissive of and I don't disagree, to be clear,
but you say a lot about how Pete Budha Judge,
no show, zero chain of Democrats, zero chance. I think
in the modern Democrat Party Josh Shapiro has zero chance
be honest with.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You because he's Jewish. If he were, if you were,
like me, a Southern Baptist, you'd be like, oh, he's
got a future there. But because he's Jewish. I don't
disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Because there's a considerable contingent of the Democrat base that
is particularly they would say anti Zionist. But if you
are Jewish and supporter of Israel, there is a large
contingent of the Democrat base that is well, a lot
of them are muslimor Middle but even more broadly, they
just view anyone who is an American Jew supportive of
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Israel with disdain.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They really do.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And I think that's a I think that's a problem.
Democrats have allowed an anti Semitism faction to grow to
the point within their party where, yes, there's still a
lot of Jewish Democrat lawmakers, I get it. Yes, there's
still a lot of Jews who vote Democrat.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But for the presidency you're gonna have you're gonna have
a real challenge, I think as a Jewish American to
become not a Republican, fine, no problem, a Democrat, I think,
big problem.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's funny because as you're saying that, I agree. I
agree with you that that's sad, by the way, because
I actually think Josh Shapiro is a reasonably decent Democrat.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Pology, you're being way too nice. You're being way too
nice about Democrats today, way too nice.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
But they won't support mayor Pete because he's gay and
a white guy. That is too bad combinations for black voters.
He has no chance. Somebody should sit down with him
and say, hey, you can grow a beard, you can
try to look cool, like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I don't support you. Do you think I don't think
his race matters that all?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think that the problem you've identified if he were
gay and Hispanic, or gay and black, you know, I
think that I I'm saying the white the gay white
is two strikes against him for some base voters in
the Democrat Party. You're saying the black community. I'm saying,
do you think the black community would view it differently
if he was black and gay?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I think he would be better off if he was
a gay black guy than if he were a gay
white guy, because I think the black might connect even
with the gay. I think he is just he's done
as a gay white guy. You may be right, he
might be done as a gay person in general, but
I think definitely gay white guy. He's on the scrap heap.
I'm persuaded that you might be right about Shapiro. Here's
one that I'll also add to the scrap heap. JB. Pritzker,
(26:54):
fat white billionaire. He's done. Like somebody needs to sit
him down and say, hey, that white billionaire guy who
just went to New Hampshire and he's like, we got
to stand up to all these You know, he's got
some quote. We probably have it in the list. You
have no chance. Somebody just needs to sit down on
some of these guys and be like, hey, figure out
(27:14):
something else to do with your life. I feel like
I should be the political like a life counselor life coach.
You're never going to be president. Figure out something else
productive you can do with your life. Pete Boudha, Jedge,
you're out. JB. Pritzker, you're out. Josh Shapiro, you're out.
(27:35):
Maybe become Republicans and they be able to get some wins.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'm going to be very freud over here now and
just say that these different individuals that you're naming have
very deep seated and I think unchangeable reasons for why
they want to be in the mix to be president,
even if they think they deep down they might know
they can't really win. For Pete, Budha judgees just to
keep him in the national conversation. Look, as much as
(28:00):
we have pointed out the failings of the Buddha Judge
brand in recent years, this is a guy who's the
mayor of a small city that he did not run
well at all and somehow got into the national political
conversation as a possible president. So he's figured out something
on his side. So for him, the brand value component
(28:21):
of it is worth it even if he can never
get above three percent of the primary vote. And for
someone like a JB. Pritzker, I grew up in New
York City, I know plenty of people who are kind
of wastefrel You know billionaires who inherited it right, or
you know people that inherited huge sums of money. That
guy has a hole in his ego that could only
(28:44):
ever be filled by telling himself when he goes to
sleep at night and puts aside the Krispy Kreme for
the last time, that he will be president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I'm just going to say this.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I think that in the modern era, when was the
last time somebody who was who was, let's be honest,
morbidly obese, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And I like, we all the same thing about Chris CHRISTI,
we had him on the program. I don't think America
is going to elect a super fat guy or a
super fat woman as president. Taff. They will not do it.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And in the era of GLP ones, I think people
just ask they would say, this is a health thing.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
JB.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Prisker is health and I mean this, it's not just
the aesthetic issue. The health issue would be something for
him as president that would be a legitimate concern. Why
not address your billionaire? Why not address that?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We can take this back to what's going on now
and today. But I do think I think my read
of where the Democrats are going here is going to
end up being pretty apt. We got to get some
kind of a bet going. I still owe you a
steak dinner for you get it. Beating me in the
thing with the basketball stuff, the march madness.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, and that felt a little bit unfair because I
should beat you in the bracket challenge like you were
playing Fancy Steak.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean this might be you know, it might be
like like Shone's, you know, all you can eat steak
breakfast bar, and they still have the showings breakfast Bar.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I will let me think here, if your Wes Moore
call ends up being correct, that would be a big
time multi year out. But I do think he's setting up.
And by the way, January February of twenty seven is
gonna be here really soon. That's when everybody's gonna start announcing.
(30:31):
Just as soon as the midterms are over, there will
be guys. And the reason why I brought up J. B.
Pritsker is he just spoke yesterday. I believe it was
in New Hampshire. I mean they've already kind of started
the shadow primary process. And certainly if you're a billionaire,
you're gonna have plenty of money. But yeah, he probably
should lose some weight. JB.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Pritsker is a Illinois a badly run state. Yes, it's
really just residence. It's a lesser version of California in
terms of the mismanagement, a small or less observed. But Chicago,
which should again at Chicago's beautiful, great food, so much
going for it. The crime issue in Chicago is just unacceptable,
(31:11):
and the fact that Democrats have been in charge it
can't get a grip on it just goes to show
you that they're unseerious people when it comes to solving problems.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Buck, they replace the worst mayor maybe in the country
with a mayor that's worse he has. Brandon Johnson, the
mayor of Chicago right now, has a six percent approval rating.
Do you know how hard it is in America today
to have a six percent approval rating. I mean, that's
the Loorwest rating I've ever heard of. He's somehow worse
than Mary Lightfoot, who was the worst mayor maybe in
(31:41):
America during COVID.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I think accidentally stepping on a nail has a six
percent approval rating. Like it's not good.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I mean, I could be the mayor of Chicago right
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Speaker 3 (33:36):
Are going to dive into all of the latest, including
with the administration taking steps to enforce the law when
it comes to civil rights and women in sports and
basically the gender madness. This is not just going to
be in rhetorical terms. They're going to start saying if
you violate the law as a state official or whatever
it may be, you broke the law. So that's not good,
(34:00):
will be consequences. Let's get some of our calls here
as well. We have Randy in Jupiter, Florida.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
What's going on? Randy?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Nice job.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Why thank you not.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I hate to be the one that burst the bubble
about Wes Moore, but I read the article that you
referred to just a few minutes ago. Yes, he did
say he will not travel to El Salvador to bring
the gang banger home. However, the further comments that he
made afterwards, he's all in on the mantra.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But I do support due process.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
He doesn't have due process, and I support the Constitution
and he is not being afforded his constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
But does my senator blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, Randy, what we would say to that is that's
the more that's the midway point, if you will. For Democrats,
of course, they're all going to say that. I think
the decision or rather so far, his unwillingness to go
to el Sis. Well, I mean, he could still end
up going, but I don't think he will because he's
trying to run in the moderate Democrat lane already and
(35:08):
become a Democrat leader of it.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah. I also think they're abandoning the brave you Garcia story.
It seems like it's vanished, and I would just point
out the person who should go, I think, by and large,
in that scenario more than the senator would be the governor,
right Because to me, anyway, if you were really trying
(35:31):
to argue out who makes sense. The fact that he's
not going is I think indicative that he's not trying
to compete for the far left wing.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, yes, So anyway, Randy, thank you, And yeah, I
don't think you'll see any Democrat who isn't. This is
their whole opposition to Trump right now. So the expectation
is they will all be taking the position that what
has happened to Abrego Garcia is a deprivation of his
due process rights. And I will keep saying it because
it is important. None of these people, and this is
(36:01):
also showing you how even organizations like the ACLU that
are supposed to be built on due process rights, none
of these people gave a you know what about the
due process rights of J six defendants. The kangaroo courts,
they were put in, the unwillingness to move any of
their the venues of their trials, the complete abuse of
(36:23):
power to put them in solitary confinement Clay. So when
it comes to Americans due process rights, Democrats can't be
trusted at all. Illegal gang members Democrats get very weepy,
very teary eyed about their due process.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Which is why I think they're starting to recognize that
is not connecting very well, which is why I think
the Brave Garcia story is going to vanish. We come back,
We'll have some more fun, continuing to break down our
conversation with jd Vance and one hundred days in with Trump,
what's next. We'll discuss
Welcome back. In appreciate all of you hanging out with us,
playing buck here one hundred days of the Trump Vance administration,
and we are joined now by Vice President JD. Vance,
and we're going to get into all the successes the
border and more. But JD. I don't know if you've
answered this question, But on the first day of your administration,
Ohio State won the National Championship against Notre Dame. But
(00:22):
you had a ton of obligations as the newly inaugurated
vice president. Do you have like an official Buckeye guy
who was following you around that day giving you updates
during the course of the game. I know you're a
big fan. I've actually I wondered about it that night.
I don't know if you've answered it. I would have
if my University of Tennessee ever gets back in the
(00:42):
title game, I would be terrified to miss any of it.
What was your play there for National Title Game day
as a Buckeye.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, there are a couple of different things going on.
So first I actually talked to my team about whether
it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so
that I would be able to go to the game.
And actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd
go to a few parties, and then I'd be able
to watch the game while the president took care of
the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan
(01:11):
of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedent for the
vice president to skip the inaugural balls the night of
the inauguration. What we were able to do, though, is
before the first ball, I actually had all of my
friends and family we got basically we turned a big
hotel room into a sports bar, and so I was
able to watch the first quarter before the first ball,
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and I think it was either right after the second
or the third ball, Notre Dames started to come back
a little bit, and so I sat in a room
with like a nineteen inch TV and just sort of
watched the Buckeyes put it away. So I got to
see a little bit of it. Man. But yeah, it's
it's on the one hand, like, what a cool day
for an Ohio State fan to be inaugurated as the
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vice president and have your team within a national championship.
On the other hand, was sad to miss most of
the game, but you know, official duties come first.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Jadie, I was also happy to see Vice president of Vance.
Very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well.
I want to ask you, I want to ask you
about a border if I can, and what's going on
with the administration on Well, let's get into the next steps.
The good news is you can sit here and tell us.
But Clay and I've been telling everybody about this. So far,
the border is secure ninety five percent drop. The stats
(02:21):
speak for themselves. Biden kicked the border wide open, it
was a choice. Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic.
We still have millions and millions of illegals who came
in under Biden. What should we expect from the perspective
of building on the border successes so far in the
next six to twelve months.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up
to deportations, and the President talks about this all the time,
both in public and private. It's something that I'm very
focused on. And a lot of this comes down to,
I mean, it turns out we've got to do some
battle with some really crazy, far left judges in order
to allow the administration to do what it actually needs
(03:01):
to do. And I will say to great credit. The
President expected this when we came in. He said, you know,
we're going to start deporting people, and a lot of
these far left judges are going to stop us, and
there's no way out of it but through it, and
we're just going to have to battle. We're going to
have to win the court cases. We're gonna have to
take some of this stuff all the way to the
Supreme Court, and we're going to have to find alternative
ways to deport people. When the judges say you can't
(03:24):
do this method, we're gonna have to find another method.
So we recognize that we're dealing battle here, or doing
battle with basically a massive bureaucracy that has decided that
it rules the country rather than the American people. And
I think one of the biggest takeaways of one hundred
days is, yes, we've got a lot of successes. We've
also revealed ways in which this deeply entrenched bureaocracy tries
(03:46):
to fight the will of the American people. And thank god,
we've got a vice president and a president who are
pushing back against it. And that's exactly what we told
the American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing.
But I think that is really the biggest, folks, point
of immigration policy over the next six to twelve months
is to empower all of the people in the administration,
(04:06):
from Tom Homer and Christynome to the border patrol agents
on the ground to do their job and to get
a lot of these people out of our country. Now
that said, we have had great success, but we're not
resting on our laurels. Here. We're shutting down the border
traffic coming into the country and we're dealing with what
Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a
Yale law grad. And you just talked about where the
resistance two point zero, I would say is coming from,
largely the six hundred and some odd district court judges
who are regularly putting in place nationwide injunctions. What's a
fix to that? And are even you surprised by how
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aggressive the judiciary has been to try to strip the
president's executive authority?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, I'm not surprised by it, because again, the
president actually expected this. He told us this would happen,
you know, he felt and I think he was right
about this that you know, the left felt defeated in
a certain way, that there were a lot of you know,
grassroots activists that just weren't nearly as fired up in
twenty twenty four as they were in twenty sixteen. And
(05:14):
he's talking about people on the far left. But he
said that, look, the courts are going to try to
stop everything that we do. And it's actually not just immigration.
I mean, the courts have tried to stop Pete Hegseth
from not allowing you know, transgender military personnel to continue serving.
They've done a lot I mean, which goes to the
heart of military readiness, right the Secretary of Defense saying that,
(05:36):
you know, if you're dealing with a serious mental health issue,
our compassion goes with you, but you can't be deployed
to the battlefield like that. That is the heart of
the president and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so
you have these district courts who really want to run
the country and have decided that they are actually in
charge of the United States of America. There's this very
(05:57):
funny I think headline from the Babylon be that was,
you know, something like Donald Trump considers resigning to become
a very powerful district court judge. But it's one of
these jokes with a kernel of truth, which is that
the district courts in this country have tried to take
upon themselves powers that belong to the President of the
United States. And it's funny, guys, you know, you hear
(06:18):
the media and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis.
And the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to
allow the district courts to govern the country. The crisis
is the district courts trying to govern the country. And
our approach is we're fighting it legally. Of course, we're
taking some of these cases to the Supreme Court and
we think we're going to get success there. We're finding
(06:40):
alternative methods to do what we need to do in
compliance with the law. And we're just going to have
to keep on fighting this, you know, day by day,
figuring out where the district courts. And it's to be clear,
it's not all district courts, it's the far left crazies.
But when these far left crazies stop in and try to
prevent the president from doing his job, we've got to
do it through all alternative means. And that's what we're
(07:01):
trying to do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
We're speaking of Vice President Vance, and mister vice President,
let me ask you about how things are going at
this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and
abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has
taken upon itself. But what we can expect now, how
much of this do you think has been completed when
(07:22):
you look at Elon and Dogje's mission. Does Congress have
to play a major role with recisions? Essentially, we know
there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do
we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop?
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Where are we on that?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I
wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes,
Congress has a role because here, here's what happens. If
DOGE and Elon find ten billion dollars of spending, that's
just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with
the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there,
and so it's still been taxed from the American people.
(07:56):
And if we want to use it to pay down
debt or to give it back to the American people
through tax relief. Then that does require an Act of Congress,
and I think Congress is very willing to do it.
But I don't know if you saw. I think it
was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that
Treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow.
And I think that's because of the success of DOGE.
(08:16):
You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these
crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding
a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for
American citizens that are going theither to illegal aliens or
to complete fraudsters. And so I think DOGE is making
a lot of progress, but it's not done, and I
don't think it's ever going to be truly done right.
This is one of these problems that we have to
(08:39):
continually fight against. And the reason why it was such
a shock to the system is we had allowed the
waste and the fraud to become so endemic in the
way that we did government in this country. And I
don't think we should ever go back. And I actually
do think, and maybe this is too optimistic, that when
all the political controversy is cleared, we look back on
this a few years from now, we're going to realize
(09:01):
that doges saved the American people a lot of money,
that cut a lot of fraud out of our government,
and that even some Democrats are going to say, well,
we have to keep doing this because we can't just
let hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud every single
year become part of how the US government functions.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're talking to Vice President jd Vance. You guys have
made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to
reflect that young men are breaking for both you and
Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part
of that is because young men are over this idea
of men being able to play women's sports. I can't
believe this is even a thing. Nike, you may have seen,
(09:39):
recently paid for a study on minors to study trans
drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the
world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike
even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an eighty
twenty ninety ten issue for Americans. Do you feel that
when you're out about.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning
political issue for the Republican Party, because it's just basic
common sense, right. I mean, people don't want women competing
against grown men and sports, especially in some of these
contact sports where the women could get injured. You know,
I'm the father of a three year old daughter. I'd
like her to play sports. I think it teaches valuable
(10:22):
life lessons, but I don't want her competing against grown
men when she does it. This is just, again, it's
basic common sense. I think it's the basic masculine instinct
to protect young women. And one of the ways you
do that is to not let, you know, a male
boxer in the room with a female boxer. Just things
like that I think have turned it into a ninety
ten issue, that basic common sense. But man, I think
(10:43):
that so many of these companies, Nike or otherwise, they
got caught up in this cultural zeitgeist of twenty twenty,
twenty twenty one, and it's like, I don't know, maybe
they just thought the progressors were going to win, and
so they decided to fund this stuff to the hilt,
not realizing that the American people would have a rebellion
against the craziness. I think that rebellion on the trans
(11:04):
issue in particular, I mean, think about this, giving hormonal
therapies to twelve year old kids, causing irreversible damage to
their bodies, forcing young girls to compete against boys in sports,
sometimes causing serious injury in the process. I think this
issue is such a bad loser among the American people
that even some of the true believers have dropped it
(11:26):
as a political issue. But I think it's our job
to remind the American people this is what they've tried
to do, this is what they're promising to do. The
trans issue hasn't gone away. You just had some Democrats
who are smart enough to recognize it as a political loser.
But yeah, they're going to try to force twelve year
olds to take cross sex hormones, and they're going to
try to force young girls to compete against young boys
(11:49):
if we give these guys power. The craziness, in other words,
hasn't gotten away. They've just gotten a little bit better
at hiding it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Mister Vice President, one war for you. Appreciate you making
the time for us today. The tarriff's issue is something
that has got a lot of attension on this show
across the country.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
For obvious reasons. People are very.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Attuned to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and
his approach to China is doing to the economy, the
market prices everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty
about it today on their front page. What do you
say to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump
away from this course because they're a little nervous about
(12:28):
the tariff situation.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I've had so many conversations guys in private with
the President about this, and I think his public statements,
I mean, going back to the nineteen eighties, this is
an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen
to think that he's right. He campaigned on it, the
American people elected him on it, and there's a lot
of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well,
Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I
(12:51):
promise you I've spent many hours discussing these issues with
Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows
exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America
doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue.
We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're
too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the
(13:13):
things that we need. And that's true in electronics, it's
true in technology, it's true in God forbid. You know,
we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over
the last few years. We cannot have a real successful,
prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for
the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children.
(13:34):
And so what the President has said here is, yes,
this is going to be disruptive, Yes this is going
to require some transition, but he's fundamentally committed to the
basic process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating
good paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making
America more self reliant. And I think the problem is
that we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for
(13:56):
forty years that we could just ship all of our
heavy endstry overseas, that we could ship a lot of
our good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and
that somehow that would make the United States more prosperous.
I think the reality is that it's made us weaker.
It's made us more dependent on the Communist's Chinese. And
when you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the
(14:18):
President's trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut
off the United States from critical supplies that are necessary
for the American people. Doesn't that just prove that Donald
Trump was right? How did we ever get into the
position where the People's Republic of China could threaten the
American people with the loss of critical supplies? And given
(14:38):
that we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly
right that we have to get out of it. I'm
not going to tell you it's going to be easy,
because it's not. But it's necessary, and I think the
President recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity
to do it.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
JD. Van's, Vice President of the United States, congratulations on
the first one hundred days and your Ohio state buck
eyes being the national champs. We hope to talk to
you again soon. Keep up good work.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Thanks guys. Stick here.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
That's Vice President JD. Vance talking about so many different
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Speaker 1 (16:50):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
And Clay, you're gonna be leading us here in just
a moment if you want to get into the men's
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
What do you have in store for us, mister Clay?
That and also, Buck, did you see that Maryland Governor
Wes Moore actually said what we have said on this
program that he is intentionally not going to go to
El Salvador. Your pick to be the nominee in twenty
twenty eight, which would be you picked jd as the VP.
(17:26):
That would be an even bigger call if Wes Moore
ended up being the nominee.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Think about this. The Democrat Party has been split now
for a long time in the establishment DNC and Bernie
wings of their Party AOC is going to be the
standard bearer for the Bernie Wing. I think that's quite obvious.
But I think Wes Moore ses the lane for the Hillary,
the Obama, the establishment, DNC or Democrat figures. So playing
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Speaker 1 (18:57):
Welcome back in play Travis Bucks exton show. All Right, Buck,
maybe calling a shot. I don't dislike this idea that
there's gonna have to be some return to a form
of masculinity at some point in the Democrat Party. And
I'm laughing about this because during the break I was
sharing with Buck a video of Corey Booker and Hakeem Jeffrey.
(19:21):
Can't these like Corey Booker and Nakeem Jeffery sitting on
the steps? They had a actual sit in on the
Capitol steps for like twelve hours. Corey Booker, he's a
senator from New Jersey. His entire political career seems to
be just I'm going to do very boring things for
(19:42):
long periods of time, which I would suggest is not
a way to appeal to young people. Hey, you know
Corey Booker, He's that guy who does really boring stuff
and he does it for really long periods of time. Right.
He did the filibuster and everybody's like, oh wow, this
is Yeah. He talked for twenty eight hours or whatever
the heck it was. Now he's sitting on the steps
for twelve hours alongside of a Keem Jefferies who's the
(20:04):
Senate who would be the House Speaker, and uh yeah,
I just uh, leadership qualities not high there.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Just I'll be honest, far less formidable than Nancy Pelosi
was in that role, right, I mean he's he does
not say what you will about Pelosi, and I've said
a lot, and you have to she knew how to
corral the Democrats and to wield power ruthlessly. I don't
think HAKEM. Jefferies is anywhere near the same skill set.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
No doubt. But also they're just boring dudes and in
an era where it's important and not guys that I
think your average guy would want to hang out with.
I think it's hard to find anybody in the Democrat
Party that your average guy would want to hang out with.
And let me, just as an aside here point out,
I do think that Bill Clinton was probably a pretty
(20:54):
fun guy to hang out with. There. Probably you gotta,
I gotta gonta have to sit down.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna flip you on this whole Bill
Bill Clinton is the worst.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Man the I think Bill Clinton would have been a
fun guy to hang out with. Maybe not if you
were an intern. Uh maybe maybe if you were an
intern back in the day, depending on your prerogative. I
guess Ronald Reagan I think would have been a really
fun guy to hang out with. George W. Bush, fun
guy I think to hang out with Barack Obama. I
(21:27):
actually think Obama would not have been an awful guy
to hang out with. We know that Donald Trump is
a fun guy to hang out with. You can to
a large extent. I think they used to say, have
a beer with but Trump doesn't drink, Biden didn't drink,
George W. Bush didn't drink. A lot of these guys
don't actually consume alcohol. But the argument was an election
(21:50):
basically comes down to which guy you would rather have
a beer with, And I think that's certainly true. If
you look at Hillary or Kamala, I don't think very
many people would want to hang out with them. But
I would say the same thing is true of Hakeem
Jefferies and Corey Booker. I don't know Wes Moore, I
haven't met him. Buck's got a disagreeable face. We'll let
(22:11):
him respond to all this in a moment, I think
Wes Moore might not be a bad guy to have
a beer with. And I have put Maryland governor. I
don't former member of the military. Successful guy won easily
the governor's race, and we talked about on this program.
I haven't heard very many people talk about it. But
(22:33):
he has chosen not to go to El Salvador and
make this kilmar a Breo Garcia guy the focal point
of his national profile. Like Chris van Holland. The Senator
from Maryland decided to do and during the weekend he
was at the White House correspondence dinner, traveled down from
(22:54):
Maryland and he was asked directly by Fox News, Hey,
are you gonna go to this to to El Salvador
to check on the guy the quote unquote Maryland man.
And this is what he had to say, Governor, are
you planning to El Salvador for a grey gonna seem
I'm having a good night tonight. I'm not planning. You
(23:15):
can't really hear it. There's an article up about this.
He said, I'm not planning on that, and he's planning
on having a good night, which is at the party
but he answers the question from Fox News. I think
this is smart politically. And here's the other thing. I know, Buck,
when Trump has been in Maryland, Wes Moore has been
showing up for as many different events with Trump as
(23:38):
he can. And I know that he has had a
somewhat positive relationship with Trump, even though he's a Democrat governor.
I think that he recognizes that the anti Trump crazy
wing of the Democrat Party is effectively dead. And I
think he is going to be trying to run as
(23:58):
a somewhat normal human, somewhat normal human being, as a
normal dude. I don't know if it's gonna work or not,
but I would think Buck, he's gonna have opposition from
like Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, and I think those
two guys are going to try to run as moderates
in the twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
And how you're always very dismissive. You're quite vocal about
why you're dismissive of and I don't disagree, to be clear,
but you say a lot about how Pete Budha Judge,
no show, zero chain of Democrats, zero chance. I think
in the modern Democrat Party Josh Shapiro has zero chance
be honest with.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
You because he's Jewish. If he were, if you were,
like me, a Southern Baptist, you'd be like, oh, he's
got a future there. But because he's Jewish. I don't
disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Because there's a considerable contingent of the Democrat base that
is particularly they would say anti Zionist. But if you
are Jewish and supporter of Israel, there is a large
contingent of the Democrat base that is well, a lot
of them are muslimor Middle but even more broadly, they
just view anyone who is an American Jew supportive of
(25:06):
Israel with disdain.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
They really do.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
And I think that's a I think that's a problem.
Democrats have allowed an anti Semitism faction to grow to
the point within their party where, yes, there's still a
lot of Jewish Democrat lawmakers, I get it. Yes, there's
still a lot of Jews who vote Democrat.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
But for the presidency you're gonna have you're gonna have
a real challenge, I think as a Jewish American to
become not a Republican, fine, no problem, a Democrat, I think,
big problem.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
It's funny because as you're saying that, I agree. I
agree with you that that's sad, by the way, because
I actually think Josh Shapiro is a reasonably decent Democrat.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Pology, you're being way too nice. You're being way too
nice about Democrats today, way too nice.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
But they won't support mayor Pete because he's gay and
a white guy. That is too bad combinations for black voters.
He has no chance. Somebody should sit down with him
and say, hey, you can grow a beard, you can
try to look cool, like.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I don't support you. Do you think I don't think
his race matters that all?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
I think that the problem you've identified if he were
gay and Hispanic, or gay and black, you know, I
think that I I'm saying the white the gay white
is two strikes against him for some base voters in
the Democrat Party. You're saying the black community. I'm saying,
do you think the black community would view it differently
if he was black and gay?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
I think he would be better off if he was
a gay black guy than if he were a gay
white guy, because I think the black might connect even
with the gay. I think he is just he's done
as a gay white guy. You may be right, he
might be done as a gay person in general, but
I think definitely gay white guy. He's on the scrap heap.
I'm persuaded that you might be right about Shapiro. Here's
one that I'll also add to the scrap heap. JB. Pritzker,
(26:54):
fat white billionaire. He's done. Like somebody needs to sit
him down and say, hey, that white billionaire guy who
just went to New Hampshire and he's like, we got
to stand up to all these You know, he's got
some quote. We probably have it in the list. You
have no chance. Somebody just needs to sit down on
some of these guys and be like, hey, figure out
(27:14):
something else to do with your life. I feel like
I should be the political like a life counselor life coach.
You're never going to be president. Figure out something else
productive you can do with your life. Pete Boudha, Jedge,
you're out. JB. Pritzker, you're out. Josh Shapiro, you're out.
(27:35):
Maybe become Republicans and they be able to get some wins.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
I'm going to be very freud over here now and
just say that these different individuals that you're naming have
very deep seated and I think unchangeable reasons for why
they want to be in the mix to be president,
even if they think they deep down they might know
they can't really win. For Pete, Budha judgees just to
keep him in the national conversation. Look, as much as
(28:00):
we have pointed out the failings of the Buddha Judge
brand in recent years, this is a guy who's the
mayor of a small city that he did not run
well at all and somehow got into the national political
conversation as a possible president. So he's figured out something
on his side. So for him, the brand value component
(28:21):
of it is worth it even if he can never
get above three percent of the primary vote. And for
someone like a JB. Pritzker, I grew up in New
York City, I know plenty of people who are kind
of wastefrel You know billionaires who inherited it right, or
you know people that inherited huge sums of money. That
guy has a hole in his ego that could only
(28:44):
ever be filled by telling himself when he goes to
sleep at night and puts aside the Krispy Kreme for
the last time, that he will be president of the
United States.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I'm just going to say this.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I think that in the modern era, when was the
last time somebody who was who was, let's be honest,
morbidly obese, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And I like, we all the same thing about Chris CHRISTI,
we had him on the program. I don't think America
is going to elect a super fat guy or a
super fat woman as president. Taff. They will not do it.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
And in the era of GLP ones, I think people
just ask they would say, this is a health thing.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
JB.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Prisker is health and I mean this, it's not just
the aesthetic issue. The health issue would be something for
him as president that would be a legitimate concern. Why
not address your billionaire? Why not address that?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
We can take this back to what's going on now
and today. But I do think I think my read
of where the Democrats are going here is going to
end up being pretty apt. We got to get some
kind of a bet going. I still owe you a
steak dinner for you get it. Beating me in the
thing with the basketball stuff, the march madness.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, and that felt a little bit unfair because I
should beat you in the bracket challenge like you were
playing Fancy Steak.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean this might be you know, it might be
like like Shone's, you know, all you can eat steak
breakfast bar, and they still have the showings breakfast Bar.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I will let me think here, if your Wes Moore
call ends up being correct, that would be a big
time multi year out. But I do think he's setting up.
And by the way, January February of twenty seven is
gonna be here really soon. That's when everybody's gonna start announcing.
(30:31):
Just as soon as the midterms are over, there will
be guys. And the reason why I brought up J. B.
Pritsker is he just spoke yesterday. I believe it was
in New Hampshire. I mean they've already kind of started
the shadow primary process. And certainly if you're a billionaire,
you're gonna have plenty of money. But yeah, he probably
should lose some weight. JB.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Pritsker is a Illinois a badly run state. Yes, it's
really just residence. It's a lesser version of California in
terms of the mismanagement, a small or less observed. But Chicago,
which should again at Chicago's beautiful, great food, so much
going for it. The crime issue in Chicago is just unacceptable,
(31:11):
and the fact that Democrats have been in charge it
can't get a grip on it just goes to show
you that they're unseerious people when it comes to solving problems.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Buck, they replace the worst mayor maybe in the country
with a mayor that's worse he has. Brandon Johnson, the
mayor of Chicago right now, has a six percent approval rating.
Do you know how hard it is in America today
to have a six percent approval rating. I mean, that's
the Loorwest rating I've ever heard of. He's somehow worse
than Mary Lightfoot, who was the worst mayor maybe in
(31:41):
America during COVID.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I think accidentally stepping on a nail has a six
percent approval rating. Like it's not good.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I mean, I could be the mayor of Chicago right
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Speaker 3 (33:36):
Are going to dive into all of the latest, including
with the administration taking steps to enforce the law when
it comes to civil rights and women in sports and
basically the gender madness. This is not just going to
be in rhetorical terms. They're going to start saying if
you violate the law as a state official or whatever
it may be, you broke the law. So that's not good,
(34:00):
will be consequences. Let's get some of our calls here
as well. We have Randy in Jupiter, Florida.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
What's going on? Randy?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Nice job.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Why thank you not.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
I hate to be the one that burst the bubble
about Wes Moore, but I read the article that you
referred to just a few minutes ago. Yes, he did
say he will not travel to El Salvador to bring
the gang banger home. However, the further comments that he
made afterwards, he's all in on the mantra.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But I do support due process.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
He doesn't have due process, and I support the Constitution
and he is not being afforded his constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
But does my senator blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Yeah, Randy, what we would say to that is that's
the more that's the midway point, if you will. For Democrats,
of course, they're all going to say that. I think
the decision or rather so far, his unwillingness to go
to el Sis. Well, I mean, he could still end
up going, but I don't think he will because he's
trying to run in the moderate Democrat lane already and
(35:08):
become a Democrat leader of it.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah. I also think they're abandoning the brave you Garcia story.
It seems like it's vanished, and I would just point
out the person who should go, I think, by and large,
in that scenario more than the senator would be the governor,
right Because to me, anyway, if you were really trying
(35:31):
to argue out who makes sense. The fact that he's
not going is I think indicative that he's not trying
to compete for the far left wing.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, yes, So anyway, Randy, thank you, And yeah, I
don't think you'll see any Democrat who isn't. This is
their whole opposition to Trump right now. So the expectation
is they will all be taking the position that what
has happened to Abrego Garcia is a deprivation of his
due process rights. And I will keep saying it because
it is important. None of these people, and this is
(36:01):
also showing you how even organizations like the ACLU that
are supposed to be built on due process rights, none
of these people gave a you know what about the
due process rights of J six defendants. The kangaroo courts,
they were put in, the unwillingness to move any of
their the venues of their trials, the complete abuse of
(36:23):
power to put them in solitary confinement Clay. So when
it comes to Americans due process rights, Democrats can't be
trusted at all. Illegal gang members Democrats get very weepy,
very teary eyed about their due process.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Which is why I think they're starting to recognize that
is not connecting very well, which is why I think
the Brave Garcia story is going to vanish. We come back,
We'll have some more fun, continuing to break down our
conversation with jd Vance and one hundred days in with Trump,
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