June 4, 2025 • 49 mins
ICE Agents are Not the Bad Guys The increasing hostility toward ICE agents during immigration enforcement operations. Buck critiques Democratic leaders, particularly Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Dan Goldman, for their rhetoric against ICE officers who wear face coverings during raids to protect their identities. He argues that this criticism endangers federal agents and emboldens radical activists. The show features commentary from ICE officials and former acting ICE Director and boarder czar Tom Homan, who warn that the vilification of ICE could lead to violence against agents. The Vibe Shift The erosion of trust in Democratic leadership, the alleged corruption of the “Biden crime family,” and the perceived weaponization of federal institutions. Buck draws parallels to past controversies involving the Clintons and criticizes the mainstream media, particularly CNN and MSNBC, for their role in shaping public perception. A significant portion of the hour is dedicated to the conservative movement’s victories under President Trump, including the dismantling of corporate wokeism and the reversal of discriminatory banking policies. Citigroup’s recent decision to drop its anti-firearms policy is cited as a major win for Second Amendment advocates and a sign of shifting corporate attitudes. Buck calls for greater accountability from major brands that advertise on left-leaning platforms while ignoring conservative media. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy joins the program to address the nationwide crisis in air traffic control and flight delays. He outlines the administration’s plan to modernize the outdated air traffic infrastructure, including a proposed $12 billion investment from the bill to overhaul the system with cutting-edge technology. Duffy also discusses the future of drone deliveries and air taxis, projecting major advancements by the 2028 Olympics. Duffy just released a report on the CA High Speed Rail and pointed out how liberals have spent 16 billion and are 17 years into the project with no track laid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome everybody to the Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thank you for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
As always, Clay of course taking one for the team
playing golf today while I am helming the radio solo.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But there is a bit of a drizzle, so he's
got that going off.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But he's out there having a good time and doing
representing the show on the golf course, and I'm sure
we'll see some video of his swing later on today.
I'm going to insist that he posts. You know, people
call him the Jack Nicholas of radio. I don't know,
that's just that's what the folks are saying. So yes,
he's doing great now. I saw him last night and
like I've been telling you, he'll be back full full
(00:46):
scale on Friday here on the program. So it'll be
meet today and tomorrow. A lot of news to breakdown
for all of you. The Auto Penn controversy now, and
just to be clear, this is still in the early stages.
We're finding out how far this goes and what it involves,
but it seems like there's a very decent possibility that
(01:11):
maybe somebody was wielding the autopen for Biden without his
knowledge because he was not of sound mind, which they
have had to admit. This could involve pardons, This could
involve signing of executive orders, even of laws.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We will take a look at that. President Trump wants
to take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
More on the Big Beautiful Bill, there's a little bit
of do we call it the Triple B.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
There's a little bit of pushback from some conservative and
Republican corners on this one, most notably from Elon Musk
himself of DOGE, who, as I mentioned to you yesterday,
the program is very unhappy.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
With the situation of the Big Beautiful Bill, and.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Stephen Miller's out there talking about this is what is possible,
and this is great and there's so many any good
things in it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So we'll break down some of that for you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
But this is an important moment for us because if
we're not doing the right things now when it comes
to tackling the debt, when are we going to do
the right things.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
When are we going to make the hard decisions?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Procrastination is the enemy of success, you know it, I
know it true of so many things in our lives,
true of so many things for the country. So I
think that's the discussion we shall return to today. Also,
got more on the aftermath of that anti Semitic terrorist
attack in Boulder, Colorado, more details, more reaction from those
(02:41):
in the public sphere, and I'll make some sense of
well analyze some of what they've.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Been saying and what is going on there. I'm trying
to make sure I don't leave anything off the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh, yes, two Chinese nationals. This will also go into
our border discussion charge with allegedly smuggling a fungus into
the US called Fusarium graminiarum, which is a potential agro
terrorism weapon. We'll talk about what this has to do
with the border and why border security is of course
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national security. And I've got some other important stories too. Basically,
so many things to talk to about today. I'm not
even sure if we can get to it all. But
the good news is I got three hours with you
tomorrow as well and the next day after that, so
you know we're gonna hang out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Let's start though, with some of the border situation, because,
as you know, I think This is essential that they
continue on this path, and they're running into roadblocks. The
Trump administration is running into roadblocks, as expected from Biden
and Obama judges on this, there's no surprise really in
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any of that. But they keep pushing, which is absolutely essential.
But here's something that I don't think we necessarily anticipated,
and it is they are turning on ice agents. They
are increasingly pushing this narrative. And you see this because
there are videos across the nation of enforcement operations that
(04:13):
are underway, and there are a lot of people who
think they can put hands on Immigrations and Customs enforcement officers,
they can shove them, they can obstruct them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It is in fact illegal.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
The same laws that say that the FBI can arrest
a kidnapper are the same kind of federal laws that
say Immigration and Customs Enforcement is allowed to bring people
into take people into custody, and put them through the
process of deportation. It is not, in fact the case
that Democrats can pick and choose which laws they think
(04:48):
have the force of law. Those days are over. Those
were the Biden days. During the Biden days, it was
quite clear that laws were to be in some cases
ignored and in other cases pushed and weaponized January sixth defendants,
for example, nonviolent first time offenders treated like members of
(05:10):
al Qaeda. A stain, honestly, a stain on the Justice
Department that will take a long time. Even though President
Trump did the right thing and pardon so many of
those people, it's still a stain on the Justice Department
that it was able to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Be weaponized in that way.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But now we have these enforcement operations and what you
see are Democrats, community activists, and organizers. And as our
friend Jesse Kelly says, street communists a great phrase. I
agree with him as a well, I'm giving Jesse credit
for it, so I can now just use it, okay,
(05:49):
But I've gone on record that this was a borrow
from Jesse Kelly. The street communist types, you know, the
ones that have the radical left ideology and are also
willing to dirty themselves up a bit, wrestle with cops
to the ground, throw, you know, throw bottles of urine
and rocks and things. Right, they're doing this to ice agents. Now,
these are federal law enforcement officials. Notice how I mentioned
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January sixth before, Well, those are federal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Law enforcement Rather, that was a federal law.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Enforcement issue because it occurred in the Capitol building and
we were told that to put hands on law enforcement
was a terrible thing and they must be punished to
the fullest extent of the law. Why aren't all these
individuals being punished to the fullest extent of the law
for physically either assaulting or obstructing ICE agents. Well, as
(06:41):
we know, it's because the Democrats think that they get
to live in a world where immigration law is not
really the law that must end.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Tom Homan is entirely serious about this and knows what
he is doing and understands what's going on here. But
something that has come up specifically, and this comes from
Hakim Jeffries, who remember was Speaker of the House, a
deeply unimpressive politician, I might add, not somebody that when
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he speaks about any issue, you say, here's somebody with
real command of the facts. Makes Nancy Pelosi look like
Tallyrand by comparison, I mean, really somebody who I think
is just in and over his head.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But put that aside for a moment. HAKEM.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Jeffries, member of Congress, is upset that these individuals who
are serving their country in federal law enforcement as part
of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which falls under the Department
of Homeland Security under DHS that during these raids they
have faces covered essentially like a balaklava. It's almost like
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a gator that they pull up over their faces. Hakim
Jeffries is upset by this. We should talk about this
for a moment. Play cut too.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach,
and I'm trying to hide their identities from the American
people will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is America,
so not the Soviet Union, but not behind the Iron curtain,
is not the nineteen thirties, And every single one of them,
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no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes,
will of course be identified.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That in fact is the law.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They will be identified. Why exactly so, I'd like to know.
So is he saying that they will be identified by
law enforcement after the fact if they've engaged in some
criminal By the way, they have not engaged in a
criminal activity.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They're making arrests.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But what you see here are the Democrats to play
kate the rabid street communists in their midst The Democrats
have decided that they want there to be pressure campaigns
against law enforcement, all officers involved in interior enforcement of
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immigration laws. They want them to be subject to the
rage of the mob so that they can slow down
and maybe even stop these raids and stop these processes
from happening. What other area of the law would anyone
for one second think this is legitimate if they were
going in and they were rating FENTONYL stashes and the
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cops involved in it, we're obscuring their right because some
of them may be involved in undercover operations, some of
them are doing bybus, some of them, you know, they
don't necessarily want to be on the six o'clock news.
Would they be making this case, No, they would not.
But it's very clear what's going on here. They're trying
to pretend it's about accountability. This is exactly what Democrats do.
(09:48):
I might add when they want donors to anything conservative
to be public. They say it's about transparency, but it's
actually about intimidation. And it's also once again here about
intimidating our law enforcement officers by having their identities out
there so they can be doxed, so they can be threatened,
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so their families can be the subject of death threats.
We all know what's going on here, but these Democrats
are vile, vile, and they seek to undermine this law
enforcement effort in whatever way they can.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They are anti law on this issue.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And here's Tom Homan as I said before, speaking about
how the vilification of ICE, the pretense, the games, the
lies that are being told about how ICE is really
the Stazi of East Germany, Ice is the Nazi ss.
Ice is is on the wrong side of history, all
this stuff. They're gonna get an ICE agent who is
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a federal law enforcement officer severely injured or killed. It's
just a question to when this is cut three.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
A lot of our Congression representatives who are vilifying ICE
on the board of Charvid Hey, they're driving this hey,
And I'm telling you this only a matter of time
before there's an incident where an ICE agents don't have
to take a life, or an ICE agent is going
to lose a life. President Trump's saving lives. The men
and women of ICE are saving lives every day. And
if you look at the numbers, and numbers don't lie.
(11:16):
Majority of people ICE is arresting are arresting are criminal,
illegal alids, public safety threads and the non criminals, most
zero scoops up in the sanctuary of cities. And you're right,
the world's upside down when the anxiety carries them badging
guns a bad guy and the ones who breaks the
law are the victims.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Notice how quickly the Democrats went back to being the
party of the criminal for a moment. There anybody who
was president at the Capitol on January sixth, any law
enforcement official anywhere in the general vicinity was a hero
worthy of a medal of honor. I mean, the greatest
heroes that have ever stood for our nation.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
YadA, YadA, YadA. That was what they were saying. All
of a sudden, they like law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All of a sudden, they thought the FBI was a
fantastic agency because they used it as a tool to
crush their political enemies, to make an example of them. Now,
no one disagrees that these are federal law enforcement agents
and that they are enforcing real, good, valid laws on
the books. Democrats just don't like it, and they have
(12:24):
convinced themselves as a party that the law is really
what they want. The law is not a thing that
is objective, that is freestanding, that we all are subject
to the law is their whim, the whim of power,
and they don't have power right now. Therefore, there is
no law that they don't like. And they're willing to
put ice agents and other law enforcement at risk because
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they want to placate the angry mob that's looking to
do some kind of cosplay over how they're the great
heroes of this new civil rights struggle of every illegal
gets to stay here forever, not.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
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that want to stop enforcement of our immigration laws that
stand in the way, in many cases literally in the
way of our law enforcement officers who are trying to
take member. These are the public safety threats within the
illegal alien pool. These are the murderers, the rapists, the gangbaggers,
the and the robbers, the bad guys, right, I don't
(15:05):
want to hear about Oh, but what about you know
the gardener down the street for me is so kind
and works so hard. That's not who they're going after
right now. They're going after these public safety threats. And
the Democrats are playing along with this nonsense of we
need to have on video shown to the whole country
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the identities the faces of these law enforcement agents. And
here's what the acting ICE Director, Todd Lyons had to
say about this yesterday play twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm gonna answer the mask question.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
So a lot of agencies were invited to come out
two weeks ago in Los Angeles where we ran out
of operation where ICE offices were docked. So let's just
say that again. People are out there taking photos, the names,
their faces and posting them online with death threats to
their family and themselves. So I'm sorry if people are
(15:58):
offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to
let my officers and agents go out there and put
their lives on the line and get family on the line.
Because people don't like what immigration enforcement is. They are
wearing those masks because we ran an operation with the
Secret Service, we arrested someone that was going online, taking
their photos, posting their families, their kids' instagram, their kids facebooks,
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and targeting them.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So let me ask, is that the issue here.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
That we're just upset about the masks or is anyone
upset with the fact that ICE officers families were labeled terrorists.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I want someone to ask Congressman Jeffries about this. I
want him to have to answer on television. Remember how
we know that all the journals are liars and fakes
except for the ones that are right of center, who
somehow managed to get all the big stories correct.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But you know, I want to know why these Capitol
Hill reporters why don't they ask Congressman Jeffries, Hey, what
do you think about the death threats against ICE family
members because they were doing lawful, federal law enforcement work.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What do you think about that? Congressman?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh, I thought law enforcement were heroes. I thought we
were supposed to treat them well. As you know, No,
not law enforcement in general, only cops who were only
you know, Capitol Hill police on January sixth, the only
law enforcement. Oh and Comy and other coomy stooges at
the FBI for trying to destroy Trump and trying to
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destroy Trump. That's the only law enforcement that they like.
The only law enforcement they like are the ones who
take out their political enemies. Very clear, what's going on here.
They are playing with fire. These leftists are doing reckless
things by feeding into this public perception that our immigration
and customs enforcement officers.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Are somehow of the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, the Democrats are on the team of you know,
MS thirteen murderers.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
That's who the Democrats are worried about.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
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we see going on right now that are even a
bit in the background of what Trump is doing, what
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this administration is making a reality, are things that those
of us who have been in the conservative movement or
just ideologically conservative for quite some time, in my case
working in conservative media fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Sorry, I told you.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I saw my friend Glenn Beck, a friend and mentor
Glenn Beck, yesterday and he pointed out it was fourteen
years ago that we linked up at the Blaze. He
hired me, and so fourteen years of that. But I've
been a conservative for as long as I can remember.
It would seem like the stuff of dreams to be
in the place we are in on some of these issues,
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and I do not believe that's an exaggeration. We've been
waiting a very long time, a very long time for
someone who would send surely dismember the CNN propaganda organization,
which is what Trump has done. There was a time
when CNN, and especially I think because I lived in
New York City, it really was able to wield, unfortunately,
(20:14):
this gravitas and credibility among a lot of well intentioned
and good and well informed people.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
They said, well, CNN.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I would know people who I would even describe as
right of center who would say things like, you know,
CNN is pretty neutral, and I would look at them like, no,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Now they wouldn't say that anymore. Everyone's realizing and is
completely insane. But if you're going back fifteen or twenty years,
people would have said a lot of people, you know,
I mean, think about it. I mean Tucker Carlson started
his career at CNN on TV with Crossfire, Right. It
used to be less insane, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
They used to have.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Actual conservatives on but that somebody could come along as
CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times and these
the premiere propaganda outlets of the Democrat Party as they
reached the pinnacle of their power, which I would really
say was the second Obama term. And then you get
(21:17):
into Trump and they they basically went too far against Trump,
and then Trump has brought them to heal and essentially
and brought them low. But that's a dream come true
for those of us who are on the right that
there is a There are a number of social media
platforms now where you can share your thoughts and not
(21:38):
have it be explicitly centered. One of my great frustrations
during COVID was I YouTube. I had multiple YouTube channels
banned just for talking about COVID stuff. You know, you
know me, I'm not. I'm not some provocateur on the right.
I just like this mask stuff in the lockdowns. This
is moronic. There's no basis for it. I was completely right.
People who disagree with me were wrong, not a small
(22:00):
or as they thought they were, including you know, Google,
one of the most powerful companies on earth. But now
we have X and now we have truth, Social and
Rumble and you know other things other places too, So
that and it's easy for us to have these wins
that we don't necessarily take a moment to appreciate and
(22:22):
to con and to to push for more of them right,
or to push more in these areas. I'm speaking about
this because we're seeing a people call it a vibe shift.
I know that's a little bit of the contemporary lingo
with the kids these days, but it is something of
a vibe shift right now from corporate America. Actually, it's
(22:45):
i would argue, a powerful vibe shift. It's not a
little bit, it's a lot. And we're entering a new
period here where oppress half the country's ideas and they'll
still come back and shop with you. They'll still come
back and buy your product. That's a much diceier proposition
than it was before Trump won this last election. We
(23:08):
are not in twenty twenty anymore where you would just
have the most blatant and in the most just thuggish
suppression of conservative ideas by companies, by platforms. I'm not
saying the pendulum has swung totally of the direction. It
is beginning to swing in the other direction, and that
(23:30):
is a win. And we are starting to see these changes.
I give you, for example, City Group, which is one
of the largest financial institutions in the World has reversed
its policy on restricting banking services for gun companies and
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firearms clients. In the statement on June third, the bank
said a decision had been made over fair access to
banking services.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
City Group will.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No longer have a specific policy as it results to firearms.
This is a step back from the d banking that
was going on for years and is one of the
most pernicious and undermining and really aggressive things that the
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Left was doing in the private sector to suppress ideas
it didn't like and to just politically bludgeon the other side.
So in twenty eighteen they implemented a firearms policy that
basically meant they wouldn't well, the policy is they wouldn't
work people that sold guns. They had all these rules
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and they were they had to restrict firearms on all
these different bases. If you don't do it, they won't
work with you. So that, I think is just one
of many things that we're going to see here where
these companies are no longer confident enough. Even if they
I don't think that they like conservatives. I want to
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be clear. I don't think that the people in charge
have changed their mind about a lot of this maybe
some have some have it. It's too large of an
issue and too many people involved to say that definitively.
But what I do know is that they recognize there
could be consequences to discriminating against the right with their business.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Now things have changed.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And this is also after a dozen In April of
twenty twenty four, a dozen Republican state attorney generals state
attorneys general rather wrote a letter to Bank of America
with regard to their.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Debanking policies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And the systemic biases that they have, and that to
think about this banks which we do think of I
know they're private, but you think of banking services as
being being non should be non political in nature.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So if you went into Bank of America, or you
went into you know, any of these financial institutions and
they and you said, hey, I'd like to open a
checking account with you, and they said, who'd you vote
for in the last election, and you said, well, not
a communist, so I voted for Trump And they said,
I'm sorry, we can't take your business. We'd all recognize
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that's a that's a that's a big deal, that's a
big problem, right, and that this kind of political discrimination
discrimination was going on for as many years as it
did without any meaningful pushback from the judiciary or from
Congress is appalling, absolutely appalling. Trump Organizations sued Capital One,
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accusing the bank of closing hundreds of accounts belonging to
the company. Trump Organization said that Capital One's unilateral decision
came about as a result of political and social motivations
and woke beliefs.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Banks. Banks are now.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Left wing, woke enforcers. Well they have been for years,
and now it's finally turning around. Now it is finally
changing where they don't feel comfortable doing this.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
This is really meaningful.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And note the next the next phase of this needs
to be we need to demand if there is an
ad that runs on MSNBC, okay, I want to know
why that company isn't running ads on Fox News. And
we need to start to hold these companies to account.
(27:45):
If Mercedes and BMW and I don't know, I mean,
you know who are some of those Wow, star We've
got our own coffee company here, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
And to talk about Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But if some of these major international brands, you know, Apple,
if they're willing to put money in advertising to reach
an audience that will watch MSNBC. I want to know
on what basis they're not putting money with with with
Fox News, with NEWSMAC, with talk radio. Why why is
(28:17):
it that left wing podcasters who are wrong about everything
and who are lunatics can count on corporate dollars and
on the right, it's always that there's always this concern
about brand safety.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Why are they safe? But we're not safe. Our people
just won the election.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We're in charge, We run the country brand safety and no.
I mean, look, I understand free market, private market people
can do what they want, but we can also do
what we want and say to any company that's out
there that's putting real money on left wing programming, hey,
what's going on here? And force them to answer the question.
(28:54):
Force some of these companies, you know, for forced like
Ford Motors or you know whoever it is.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm just coming up with big, big companies, but.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Forced them to say, you know what, half the country
can go, you know, can go take a long walk
off a short peer with their politics, and we think
they'll just buy our stuff anyway, you jerks. Let's hear
them say that. Now, let's let's force them out a
little bit because this matters.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This matters the left.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
One of the great things about this Trump administration has
been disassembling the forever regime of the universities.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
And the the you know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Corporate HR woke DEEI apparatus, and and the way that
the the NGOs that suckle at the teats of places
like US, A, I, D and NPR. This this needed
to be done. And I've talked about being a conservative
for a long time. We've dreamt of this fight finally
(29:57):
happening for decades, and now finally here. And Trump is
doing so many things. This administration is moving on so
many fronts that I think it's easy to have some
of this stuff get a little bit lost. It's easy
for us not to put enough focus on all of
these different things because there's so many of them. But
(30:19):
forcing companies to end as a matter of policy, and
I mean the biggest companies in America, the biggest companies
in the world, forcing them to end political discrimination right
down in their company by laws. We will not as
a company deny services, deny product to people because of
(30:42):
lawful political belief which believe, whether they want to accept
it or not. Voting for Trump is a lawful political belief,
the right to bear arms, the Second Amendment, being a
gun owner and wanting to have a constitutional right that
is a lawful belief. Institution that is going to discriminate
(31:02):
on a political basis. The Trump administration should immediately take
whatever legal actions are possible, sue them, and let the
courts figure it out. Oh but buck, isn't that that's
what they do. Let's see, let's see how it shakes out.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Sue them.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And also the public should start to demand accountability and.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Openness about what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So City Group no longer says that we're going to
have these weird policies when it comes to guns, because
the idiot leftists who are busy, i'm sure counting their
huge bonuses who run that place, realize.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
This is not going to be a good look for us.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
We need this to extend to all companies and any
I'm just gonna say it to you. Any company that
will put money, okay on Rachel Maddow's show and not
not talk radio, not conservative conservative content is not your friend.
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And they're getting away with not being your friend. They're
getting away with spitting in your face. And I think
we put an end to that. This is a different moment. Now,
this is a changed moment. They don't have the same
control they used to. Now is the time to push.
Now is the time to make demands. Sell your stuff
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Speaker 7 (33:43):
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So how do we ununk?
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Speaker 2 (34:04):
Do it for Clay, do it for freedom, and get
great content while you're there the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show YouTube channel. We've been trying to track him
down for a bit, but he's really busy. He's finally
with us for very please. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Mister Secretary,
welcome on the program.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Hey man, this I think this is my inaugural visit
to the program. Thanks for having me on that. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Absolutely, We're honored to have you. Clay sends his regards.
He is on the golf course today. I'm hearing rumors
that he hited three hundred and forty yards from the back.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
Teez.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I don't know if that's true or not, but this
is what people are saying. But tell me this, les,
Let's just leave it.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Play on the golf course on the day I show up.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, let's let's do this, though.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Tell me what's going on. Particularly, I'm a New Yorker
at least I grew up in New York, so I
spent plenty of time in Newark. Air It has been
a total mess. The air traffic control situation. Seems like
it's a disaster that you inherited here. And is it
getting better? What is the problem? Why are we constantly
(35:13):
having all these flight delays that aren't weather related?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How does it get fixed?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
You got a lot of frustrated flyers out there who
are hoping you're going to help clear all this nonsense up.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, So, first we have to recognize this has been
a problem that's been burning for a long time, but
it was coming to a head over the last four years.
Over the last administration. Our government watchdog group sold Biden
and Blueta judge listener, you're going to have real problems.
You need to fix the air traffic control system, and
they didn't do anything. So they've left it to us.
And what you saw in Newark is kind of a
(35:45):
culmination of several of the problems that we have in
the airspace, and they happened at the same time. So
in Newark you have three things. One they shut down
a runway to repave it, right, they open it up
thirteen days before ski as well. Great on the port authority.
But the two issues that remaining, our issues that we
see throughout the whole system were three thousand air traffic
(36:08):
controllers short nationwide, and so you're seeing a lack of
controllers in the Philly tracon that controls the Newark air space.
And then we're having teletoon issues. Our our infrastructure for
air traffic control still uses copper wires. Nobody uses copper
wires anymore. Everyone's on fiber. So we were having telecom
(36:32):
issues in the Philly traycon and UH we resolved that
issue on on the on the on the copper wire.
But Verizon moved incredibly fast our partner there and laid
brand new fiber between Philly and New York and so
it's not but we're still testing that that that uh,
(36:54):
that fiber you want to be ultra safe before you
switch it over. That will be tested through at the
end of June or early July. And then there's twenty
two controllers in the Philly Traycon. Six of them are
out right now, five for the trauma that they had
because of the outages from late April early May. One
(37:17):
is on sick lead. We brought in twenty two new
controllers to train in Silly right now. Now when I
say a new controller, what I mean is this could
be an air traffic controller who is certified in a
different airspace, say Denver. If they come to the Philly
tray Con to control a different airspace, they have to
get recertified on that specific airspace. And so most of
(37:40):
these are experienced controllers, but it's going to take them
time to get certified. So the problems of telecom and
the problems of the runway and the problems of the controllers,
you're going to have a slow roll of continual improvement.
But you're seeing and I'm giving you a lot of
information here, Buck, but what you saw was this, we
(38:03):
reduced the capacity at Newark. So all these flights were scheduled,
but they weren't flying because we reduced the capacity, and
you saw delays and cancelations, and it was a disaster
for a couple of weeks. What we've done is we've
got all the airlines to agree that we're gonna reduce
our capacity. So if you book in Newark now, you
(38:23):
actually fly. And that's what's key. No one wants to
go to be here, wait four hours and be canceled.
So because of the agreement that we have at Newark,
everyone says, Okay, we're not gonna have as many flights
coming out of here, but the ones we do have
will actually go. So we're on the path to resolve
in it. But all these solutions take time because you
can't set your fingers and create more controllers, and you
(38:45):
can't you know, quickly run fiber and then you know
cou be tested. But we're doing it and it's going
to get better in Newark. But give me some.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Grace now nationwide, mister secretary. There's also it feels like
and you see a lot of people complaining about it
on X I'm sure just flight delays have it feels
like the problem is constantly getting worse, not better. So
you've talked to us about Newark, but just in general
across the country, how do we get it so that
(39:14):
especially a lot of these routes where people are flying,
you know, and there's a sixty or seventy percent delay rate,
some of these delay rates just seems unconscionable. Is that
a function of airlines got to scale back the flights?
Is it air traffic control? How do we get it
so that people can really believe credibly if there's clear skies. Okay,
I'm not talking about if there's tornadoes or crazy weather,
(39:36):
but if the weather is fine, their plane's probably going
to take off when it's supposed to, and they're probably
going to get off.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It when they're supposed to.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, So we are using equipment that is, you know,
twenty five thirty five years old, in whether it's the
towers that are at the airports, the traycon you know,
is the next ring out from the tower. It's really
the old equipment and it's you'll telecom and so I'm
gonna need a lot of money from Congress. It should
(40:05):
have been done, you know, a decade ago. It wasn't,
and we have to basically gut and build brand new
our air traffic control system with the best technology in
the world. We can do it really quickly. It's going
to take you know, three years. If the Congress clears
the committing process for me, If I don't have to
go through an EPA, that just you know stack you know,
(40:27):
in a month upon month or a year upon year,
they clear that for me, we're gonna be able to
do it fast. And what you'll see is you can
handle greater capacity with the new system that we're going
to build, and as new technology becomes available, you can
deploy it off this new system to get even more efficiencies.
(40:47):
It's it's instead of having buck instead of having the
flip phone that you can send as many updates as
you want to your razor flip phone. If that's in
your genre, it was in mine. You can you know,
it's not an update. It is what it is. It's
all it's antiquated. That's what we have right now. But
if I build you an iPhone fifteen, you can deploy
a ton of technology off of it. We're gonna build
(41:10):
you the iPhone fifteen that you can build technology off of.
And you have to think that we're gonna have more
air travel, but it's gonna get more complicated because we're
gonna deploy. In the next years, you're gonna see drone
technology expand and services expands throughout the country. Where you're
gonna get Amazon deliveries, you're gonna get your your Uber Eats,
you're gonna get a hocked up of coffee from Starbucks
(41:32):
if you stop, if you get your coffee at Starbucks,
all by a drone. And we're gonna have evatols. These
are like the Ubers in the air. They're they're they're
they're they're they're big drones that you can hold, you know,
three four people in. You're gonna see those deploy in
the airspace.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
How far are we from that, mister Secretary, because that
sounds pretty cool, it's very cool.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
So they're they're testing these uh these uh evatols right now.
They're they're they're I think you can see the technology
advance or sure, which is one of the technologies is
actually has a contract with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight,
and it's not just the showcase of technology. They actually
have to use that technology to move people around all
(42:14):
the different sites at the LA Olympics. So it's moving
very fast. The FAA has to certify it, make sure
it's safe. Eventually you'll see you and have These will
not be piloted. They can be autonomous or right now
in certain parts of the country like in Texas, the
the drone deliveries are are happening in certain parts of
(42:34):
the country right now, easy successful. People love them. And
what they're done with drones is obviously the noise becomes
a concern. They've done really well innovating on props to
reduce the noise. You really know what's in the sky
when it's covering over your house, drop in product or
setting product down.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's very cool. Well, that's looking forward to having that
going on.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But obviously, if it's tough to air traffic control for planes,
if we put thousands, tens of thousands however many drones
and air taxis in the sky, that's gonna I assume
that's going to result in some interesting air traffic issues
as well.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
So hopefully that'll all get squared away.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Tell us about the report you just released California's high
speed rail sixteen billion dollars, seventeen years, no track laid.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
How is that possible.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Yeah, it's a great question. So first, I'm a conservative.
I would love to have high speed rail in America.
I think it would be great if we could do it.
This was the first big project and like liberals seem
to always deliver the same results, which are not very good.
This was supposed to be done years ago, and it
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was supposed to cost a little over twenty billion dollars.
They haven't laid any track. They've spent billions. They've now
told us that they can complete a truncated poor of
the project by twenty thirty three. We looked at their data.
They've given us eighty thousand pages of documents. They just
can't do it. And so they have what four billion
(44:11):
dollars of grants that have been given by the DOT
And it's our philosophy that there's if we give them
that for if we let that four billion dollars go,
that's four billion we don't have for other good projects
around the country. And I think the taxpayer expects us
to spend their money well and not to invest in boondoggles.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
And so where do the money I got to ask,
mister sig where sixteen billion dollars, it's a lot of
money for a state level project.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
What was it spent on?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
So they were buying land right and by the way,
there's there is an eyebrow raised for me in that
I was the land Who is buying land along the
route of this of this pro pose high speed rail?
And how much money did they make and how they
(45:03):
connected to politicians? All those questions need to be asked
and looked at. Is you know, was there any criminal activity?
I don't know, but I think it should be looked
at the project now it's it's out over ten years,
and if they did the full project, there was supposed
to be you know, you know, tens of billions. It
(45:24):
would be one hundred and thirty billion dollars to actually
build it, and they still don't know that they can
do it in any specific timeframe. So you have to
recognize that it's a nice concept. But liberals all spend
money well and they haven't been it well in this project.
And so at what point does does the government cut
bait and say, you know what, We're not going to
(45:44):
do this one, but maybe there's other good projects across
the country that we could invest in that would that
would serve the population law and.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Tell us about what's in the assuming it gets passed
more or less as as is, uh, what is in
the big beautiful bill that will go to transportation that
will make a difference to the American people.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
So for us, there's twelve billion dollars for this brand
new air traffic control system. That's not going to be enough.
You got to think about this. It's this is the biggest,
it's nationwide infrastructure. It is the most important infrastructure that
we're going to build on in the last several decades.
(46:26):
For sure, because it's such a big part of our economy.
People find, whether it's business or pleasure, we move a
lot of products through the air. And so we have
twelve billion, we'll need more than that at a later point.
They're going to have to give it to us. One
of the problems buck in the past is that Congress
would give conscies of money to the FAA and then
(46:49):
the priority would change or the administration changes, and they
never got the money. So we need to get the
money up front. So twelve billion is a nice start.
We can begin the product. But this year I need
to get the rest of the money, and then in
that secondary bill we can hopefully get the throwing the
deck of the of the of the permits. I also
(47:11):
think that pull us in making sure I don't get
a massive tax increase. That's big force and the big
beautiful bill. Also, there's a provision that if you buy
a brand new car that was made in America, you
can write up to right off up to ten thousand
dollars of your interest payments on the vehicles. So again
incentivizing people to buy new cars, and the presidents doing
all kinds of things to deliver on the promises that
(47:33):
he made during the campaign, which, by the way, is
nice that we have presidents that actually do what they
say or try to accomplish what they promised.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Transpretation Secretary Sean Duffy, sir, thank you so much for
being with us, and please fix all the things.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
In the pot hole of two bout right house, I
got to you.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah, you got me. Thank you, sir. Good to talk
with you.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Edition of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thank you for being here with us.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
As always, Clay of course taking one for the team
playing golf today while I am helming the radio solo.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But there is a bit of a drizzle, so he's
got that going off.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But he's out there having a good time and doing
representing the show on the golf course, and I'm sure
we'll see some video of his swing later on today.
I'm going to insist that he posts. You know, people
call him the Jack Nicholas of radio. I don't know,
that's just that's what the folks are saying. So yes,
he's doing great now. I saw him last night and
like I've been telling you, he'll be back full full
(00:46):
scale on Friday here on the program. So it'll be
meet today and tomorrow. A lot of news to breakdown
for all of you. The Auto Penn controversy now, and
just to be clear, this is still in the early stages.
We're finding out how far this goes and what it involves,
but it seems like there's a very decent possibility that
(01:11):
maybe somebody was wielding the autopen for Biden without his
knowledge because he was not of sound mind, which they
have had to admit. This could involve pardons, This could
involve signing of executive orders, even of laws.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We will take a look at that. President Trump wants
to take a look at that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
More on the Big Beautiful Bill, there's a little bit
of do we call it the Triple B.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
There's a little bit of pushback from some conservative and
Republican corners on this one, most notably from Elon Musk
himself of DOGE, who, as I mentioned to you yesterday,
the program is very unhappy.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
With the situation of the Big Beautiful Bill, and.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Stephen Miller's out there talking about this is what is possible,
and this is great and there's so many any good
things in it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
So we'll break down some of that for you.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
But this is an important moment for us because if
we're not doing the right things now when it comes
to tackling the debt, when are we going to do
the right things.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
When are we going to make the hard decisions?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Procrastination is the enemy of success, you know it, I
know it true of so many things in our lives,
true of so many things for the country. So I
think that's the discussion we shall return to today. Also,
got more on the aftermath of that anti Semitic terrorist
attack in Boulder, Colorado, more details, more reaction from those
(02:41):
in the public sphere, and I'll make some sense of
well analyze some of what they've.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Been saying and what is going on there. I'm trying
to make sure I don't leave anything off the.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh, yes, two Chinese nationals. This will also go into
our border discussion charge with allegedly smuggling a fungus into
the US called Fusarium graminiarum, which is a potential agro
terrorism weapon. We'll talk about what this has to do
with the border and why border security is of course
(03:15):
national security. And I've got some other important stories too. Basically,
so many things to talk to about today. I'm not
even sure if we can get to it all. But
the good news is I got three hours with you
tomorrow as well and the next day after that, so
you know we're gonna hang out.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It's gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Let's start though, with some of the border situation, because,
as you know, I think This is essential that they
continue on this path, and they're running into roadblocks. The
Trump administration is running into roadblocks, as expected from Biden
and Obama judges on this, there's no surprise really in
(03:49):
any of that. But they keep pushing, which is absolutely essential.
But here's something that I don't think we necessarily anticipated,
and it is they are turning on ice agents. They
are increasingly pushing this narrative. And you see this because
there are videos across the nation of enforcement operations that
(04:13):
are underway, and there are a lot of people who
think they can put hands on Immigrations and Customs enforcement officers,
they can shove them, they can obstruct them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
It is in fact illegal.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
The same laws that say that the FBI can arrest
a kidnapper are the same kind of federal laws that
say Immigration and Customs Enforcement is allowed to bring people
into take people into custody, and put them through the
process of deportation. It is not, in fact the case
that Democrats can pick and choose which laws they think
(04:48):
have the force of law. Those days are over. Those
were the Biden days. During the Biden days, it was
quite clear that laws were to be in some cases
ignored and in other cases pushed and weaponized January sixth defendants,
for example, nonviolent first time offenders treated like members of
(05:10):
al Qaeda. A stain, honestly, a stain on the Justice
Department that will take a long time. Even though President
Trump did the right thing and pardon so many of
those people, it's still a stain on the Justice Department
that it was able to.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Be weaponized in that way.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
But now we have these enforcement operations and what you
see are Democrats, community activists, and organizers. And as our
friend Jesse Kelly says, street communists a great phrase. I
agree with him as a well, I'm giving Jesse credit
for it, so I can now just use it, okay,
(05:49):
But I've gone on record that this was a borrow
from Jesse Kelly. The street communist types, you know, the
ones that have the radical left ideology and are also
willing to dirty themselves up a bit, wrestle with cops
to the ground, throw, you know, throw bottles of urine
and rocks and things. Right, they're doing this to ice agents. Now,
these are federal law enforcement officials. Notice how I mentioned
(06:13):
January sixth before, Well, those are federal.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Law enforcement Rather, that was a federal law.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Enforcement issue because it occurred in the Capitol building and
we were told that to put hands on law enforcement
was a terrible thing and they must be punished to
the fullest extent of the law. Why aren't all these
individuals being punished to the fullest extent of the law
for physically either assaulting or obstructing ICE agents. Well, as
(06:41):
we know, it's because the Democrats think that they get
to live in a world where immigration law is not
really the law that must end.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Tom Homan is entirely serious about this and knows what
he is doing and understands what's going on here. But
something that has come up specifically, and this comes from
Hakim Jeffries, who remember was Speaker of the House, a
deeply unimpressive politician, I might add, not somebody that when
(07:11):
he speaks about any issue, you say, here's somebody with
real command of the facts. Makes Nancy Pelosi look like
Tallyrand by comparison, I mean, really somebody who I think
is just in and over his head.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But put that aside for a moment. HAKEM.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Jeffries, member of Congress, is upset that these individuals who
are serving their country in federal law enforcement as part
of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, which falls under the Department
of Homeland Security under DHS that during these raids they
have faces covered essentially like a balaklava. It's almost like
(07:46):
a gator that they pull up over their faces. Hakim
Jeffries is upset by this. We should talk about this
for a moment. Play cut too.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive overreach,
and I'm trying to hide their identities from the American
people will be unsuccessful in doing that. This is America,
so not the Soviet Union, but not behind the Iron curtain,
is not the nineteen thirties, And every single one of them,
(08:18):
no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes,
will of course be identified.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
That in fact is the law.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
They will be identified. Why exactly so, I'd like to know.
So is he saying that they will be identified by
law enforcement after the fact if they've engaged in some
criminal By the way, they have not engaged in a
criminal activity.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
They're making arrests.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
But what you see here are the Democrats to play
kate the rabid street communists in their midst The Democrats
have decided that they want there to be pressure campaigns
against law enforcement, all officers involved in interior enforcement of
(09:04):
immigration laws. They want them to be subject to the
rage of the mob so that they can slow down
and maybe even stop these raids and stop these processes
from happening. What other area of the law would anyone
for one second think this is legitimate if they were
going in and they were rating FENTONYL stashes and the
(09:27):
cops involved in it, we're obscuring their right because some
of them may be involved in undercover operations, some of
them are doing bybus, some of them, you know, they
don't necessarily want to be on the six o'clock news.
Would they be making this case, No, they would not.
But it's very clear what's going on here. They're trying
to pretend it's about accountability. This is exactly what Democrats do.
(09:48):
I might add when they want donors to anything conservative
to be public. They say it's about transparency, but it's
actually about intimidation. And it's also once again here about
intimidating our law enforcement officers by having their identities out
there so they can be doxed, so they can be threatened,
(10:10):
so their families can be the subject of death threats.
We all know what's going on here, but these Democrats
are vile, vile, and they seek to undermine this law
enforcement effort in whatever way they can.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
They are anti law on this issue.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And here's Tom Homan as I said before, speaking about
how the vilification of ICE, the pretense, the games, the
lies that are being told about how ICE is really
the Stazi of East Germany, Ice is the Nazi ss.
Ice is is on the wrong side of history, all
this stuff. They're gonna get an ICE agent who is
(10:49):
a federal law enforcement officer severely injured or killed. It's
just a question to when this is cut three.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
A lot of our Congression representatives who are vilifying ICE
on the board of Charvid Hey, they're driving this hey,
And I'm telling you this only a matter of time
before there's an incident where an ICE agents don't have
to take a life, or an ICE agent is going
to lose a life. President Trump's saving lives. The men
and women of ICE are saving lives every day. And
if you look at the numbers, and numbers don't lie.
(11:16):
Majority of people ICE is arresting are arresting are criminal,
illegal alids, public safety threads and the non criminals, most
zero scoops up in the sanctuary of cities. And you're right,
the world's upside down when the anxiety carries them badging
guns a bad guy and the ones who breaks the
law are the victims.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Notice how quickly the Democrats went back to being the
party of the criminal for a moment. There anybody who
was president at the Capitol on January sixth, any law
enforcement official anywhere in the general vicinity was a hero
worthy of a medal of honor. I mean, the greatest
heroes that have ever stood for our nation.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
YadA, YadA, YadA. That was what they were saying. All
of a sudden, they like law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
All of a sudden, they thought the FBI was a
fantastic agency because they used it as a tool to
crush their political enemies, to make an example of them. Now,
no one disagrees that these are federal law enforcement agents
and that they are enforcing real, good, valid laws on
the books. Democrats just don't like it, and they have
(12:24):
convinced themselves as a party that the law is really
what they want. The law is not a thing that
is objective, that is freestanding, that we all are subject
to the law is their whim, the whim of power,
and they don't have power right now. Therefore, there is
no law that they don't like. And they're willing to
put ice agents and other law enforcement at risk because
(12:49):
they want to placate the angry mob that's looking to
do some kind of cosplay over how they're the great
heroes of this new civil rights struggle of every illegal
gets to stay here forever, not.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
On Trump's watch.
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it today. Democrats on the side of the angry mobs
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that want to stop enforcement of our immigration laws that
stand in the way, in many cases literally in the
way of our law enforcement officers who are trying to
take member. These are the public safety threats within the
illegal alien pool. These are the murderers, the rapists, the gangbaggers,
the and the robbers, the bad guys, right, I don't
(15:05):
want to hear about Oh, but what about you know
the gardener down the street for me is so kind
and works so hard. That's not who they're going after
right now. They're going after these public safety threats. And
the Democrats are playing along with this nonsense of we
need to have on video shown to the whole country
(15:25):
the identities the faces of these law enforcement agents. And
here's what the acting ICE Director, Todd Lyons had to
say about this yesterday play twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm gonna answer the mask question.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
So a lot of agencies were invited to come out
two weeks ago in Los Angeles where we ran out
of operation where ICE offices were docked. So let's just
say that again. People are out there taking photos, the names,
their faces and posting them online with death threats to
their family and themselves. So I'm sorry if people are
(15:58):
offended by them wearing masks, but I'm not going to
let my officers and agents go out there and put
their lives on the line and get family on the line.
Because people don't like what immigration enforcement is. They are
wearing those masks because we ran an operation with the
Secret Service, we arrested someone that was going online, taking
their photos, posting their families, their kids' instagram, their kids facebooks,
(16:21):
and targeting them.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
So let me ask, is that the issue here.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
That we're just upset about the masks or is anyone
upset with the fact that ICE officers families were labeled terrorists.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
I want someone to ask Congressman Jeffries about this. I
want him to have to answer on television. Remember how
we know that all the journals are liars and fakes
except for the ones that are right of center, who
somehow managed to get all the big stories correct.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But you know, I want to know why these Capitol
Hill reporters why don't they ask Congressman Jeffries, Hey, what
do you think about the death threats against ICE family
members because they were doing lawful, federal law enforcement work.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
What do you think about that? Congressman?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Oh, I thought law enforcement were heroes. I thought we
were supposed to treat them well. As you know, No,
not law enforcement in general, only cops who were only
you know, Capitol Hill police on January sixth, the only
law enforcement. Oh and Comy and other coomy stooges at
the FBI for trying to destroy Trump and trying to
(17:28):
destroy Trump. That's the only law enforcement that they like.
The only law enforcement they like are the ones who
take out their political enemies. Very clear, what's going on here.
They are playing with fire. These leftists are doing reckless
things by feeding into this public perception that our immigration
and customs enforcement officers.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Are somehow of the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, the Democrats are on the team of you know,
MS thirteen murderers.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
That's who the Democrats are worried about.
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we should always remember that some of the things that
we see going on right now that are even a
bit in the background of what Trump is doing, what
(19:14):
this administration is making a reality, are things that those
of us who have been in the conservative movement or
just ideologically conservative for quite some time, in my case
working in conservative media fourteen years.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Sorry, I told you.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I saw my friend Glenn Beck, a friend and mentor
Glenn Beck, yesterday and he pointed out it was fourteen
years ago that we linked up at the Blaze. He
hired me, and so fourteen years of that. But I've
been a conservative for as long as I can remember.
It would seem like the stuff of dreams to be
in the place we are in on some of these issues,
(19:51):
and I do not believe that's an exaggeration. We've been
waiting a very long time, a very long time for
someone who would send surely dismember the CNN propaganda organization,
which is what Trump has done. There was a time
when CNN, and especially I think because I lived in
New York City, it really was able to wield, unfortunately,
(20:14):
this gravitas and credibility among a lot of well intentioned
and good and well informed people.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
They said, well, CNN.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I would know people who I would even describe as
right of center who would say things like, you know,
CNN is pretty neutral, and I would look at them like, no,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Now they wouldn't say that anymore. Everyone's realizing and is
completely insane. But if you're going back fifteen or twenty years,
people would have said a lot of people, you know,
I mean, think about it. I mean Tucker Carlson started
his career at CNN on TV with Crossfire, Right. It
used to be less insane, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
They used to have.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Actual conservatives on but that somebody could come along as
CNN and MSNBC and The New York Times and these
the premiere propaganda outlets of the Democrat Party as they
reached the pinnacle of their power, which I would really
say was the second Obama term. And then you get
(21:17):
into Trump and they they basically went too far against Trump,
and then Trump has brought them to heal and essentially
and brought them low. But that's a dream come true
for those of us who are on the right that
there is a There are a number of social media
platforms now where you can share your thoughts and not
(21:38):
have it be explicitly centered. One of my great frustrations
during COVID was I YouTube. I had multiple YouTube channels
banned just for talking about COVID stuff. You know, you
know me, I'm not. I'm not some provocateur on the right.
I just like this mask stuff in the lockdowns. This
is moronic. There's no basis for it. I was completely right.
People who disagree with me were wrong, not a small
(22:00):
or as they thought they were, including you know, Google,
one of the most powerful companies on earth. But now
we have X and now we have truth, Social and
Rumble and you know other things other places too, So
that and it's easy for us to have these wins
that we don't necessarily take a moment to appreciate and
(22:22):
to con and to to push for more of them right,
or to push more in these areas. I'm speaking about
this because we're seeing a people call it a vibe shift.
I know that's a little bit of the contemporary lingo
with the kids these days, but it is something of
a vibe shift right now from corporate America. Actually, it's
(22:45):
i would argue, a powerful vibe shift. It's not a
little bit, it's a lot. And we're entering a new
period here where oppress half the country's ideas and they'll
still come back and shop with you. They'll still come
back and buy your product. That's a much diceier proposition
than it was before Trump won this last election. We
(23:08):
are not in twenty twenty anymore where you would just
have the most blatant and in the most just thuggish
suppression of conservative ideas by companies, by platforms. I'm not
saying the pendulum has swung totally of the direction. It
is beginning to swing in the other direction, and that
(23:30):
is a win. And we are starting to see these changes.
I give you, for example, City Group, which is one
of the largest financial institutions in the World has reversed
its policy on restricting banking services for gun companies and
(23:50):
firearms clients. In the statement on June third, the bank
said a decision had been made over fair access to
banking services.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
City Group will.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No longer have a specific policy as it results to firearms.
This is a step back from the d banking that
was going on for years and is one of the
most pernicious and undermining and really aggressive things that the
(24:20):
Left was doing in the private sector to suppress ideas
it didn't like and to just politically bludgeon the other side.
So in twenty eighteen they implemented a firearms policy that
basically meant they wouldn't well, the policy is they wouldn't
work people that sold guns. They had all these rules
(24:47):
and they were they had to restrict firearms on all
these different bases. If you don't do it, they won't
work with you. So that, I think is just one
of many things that we're going to see here where
these companies are no longer confident enough. Even if they
I don't think that they like conservatives. I want to
(25:08):
be clear. I don't think that the people in charge
have changed their mind about a lot of this maybe
some have some have it. It's too large of an
issue and too many people involved to say that definitively.
But what I do know is that they recognize there
could be consequences to discriminating against the right with their business.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Now things have changed.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
And this is also after a dozen In April of
twenty twenty four, a dozen Republican state attorney generals state
attorneys general rather wrote a letter to Bank of America
with regard to their.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Debanking policies.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
And the systemic biases that they have, and that to
think about this banks which we do think of I
know they're private, but you think of banking services as
being being non should be non political in nature.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
So if you went into Bank of America, or you
went into you know, any of these financial institutions and
they and you said, hey, I'd like to open a
checking account with you, and they said, who'd you vote
for in the last election, and you said, well, not
a communist, so I voted for Trump And they said,
I'm sorry, we can't take your business. We'd all recognize
(26:25):
that's a that's a that's a big deal, that's a
big problem, right, and that this kind of political discrimination
discrimination was going on for as many years as it
did without any meaningful pushback from the judiciary or from
Congress is appalling, absolutely appalling. Trump Organizations sued Capital One,
(26:53):
accusing the bank of closing hundreds of accounts belonging to
the company. Trump Organization said that Capital One's unilateral decision
came about as a result of political and social motivations
and woke beliefs.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Banks. Banks are now.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Left wing, woke enforcers. Well they have been for years,
and now it's finally turning around. Now it is finally
changing where they don't feel comfortable doing this.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
This is really meaningful.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
And note the next the next phase of this needs
to be we need to demand if there is an
ad that runs on MSNBC, okay, I want to know
why that company isn't running ads on Fox News. And
we need to start to hold these companies to account.
(27:45):
If Mercedes and BMW and I don't know, I mean,
you know who are some of those Wow, star We've
got our own coffee company here, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
And to talk about Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
But if some of these major international brands, you know, Apple,
if they're willing to put money in advertising to reach
an audience that will watch MSNBC. I want to know
on what basis they're not putting money with with with
Fox News, with NEWSMAC, with talk radio. Why why is
(28:17):
it that left wing podcasters who are wrong about everything
and who are lunatics can count on corporate dollars and
on the right, it's always that there's always this concern
about brand safety.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Why are they safe? But we're not safe. Our people
just won the election.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
We're in charge, We run the country brand safety and no.
I mean, look, I understand free market, private market people
can do what they want, but we can also do
what we want and say to any company that's out
there that's putting real money on left wing programming, hey,
what's going on here? And force them to answer the question.
(28:54):
Force some of these companies, you know, for forced like
Ford Motors or you know whoever it is.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm just coming up with big, big companies, but.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Forced them to say, you know what, half the country
can go, you know, can go take a long walk
off a short peer with their politics, and we think
they'll just buy our stuff anyway, you jerks. Let's hear
them say that. Now, let's let's force them out a
little bit because this matters.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This matters the left.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
One of the great things about this Trump administration has
been disassembling the forever regime of the universities.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
And the the you know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Corporate HR woke DEEI apparatus, and and the way that
the the NGOs that suckle at the teats of places
like US, A, I, D and NPR. This this needed
to be done. And I've talked about being a conservative
for a long time. We've dreamt of this fight finally
(29:57):
happening for decades, and now finally here. And Trump is
doing so many things. This administration is moving on so
many fronts that I think it's easy to have some
of this stuff get a little bit lost. It's easy
for us not to put enough focus on all of
these different things because there's so many of them. But
(30:19):
forcing companies to end as a matter of policy, and
I mean the biggest companies in America, the biggest companies
in the world, forcing them to end political discrimination right
down in their company by laws. We will not as
a company deny services, deny product to people because of
(30:42):
lawful political belief which believe, whether they want to accept
it or not. Voting for Trump is a lawful political belief,
the right to bear arms, the Second Amendment, being a
gun owner and wanting to have a constitutional right that
is a lawful belief. Institution that is going to discriminate
(31:02):
on a political basis. The Trump administration should immediately take
whatever legal actions are possible, sue them, and let the
courts figure it out. Oh but buck, isn't that that's
what they do. Let's see, let's see how it shakes out.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Sue them.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
And also the public should start to demand accountability and.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Openness about what's going on here.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
So City Group no longer says that we're going to
have these weird policies when it comes to guns, because
the idiot leftists who are busy, i'm sure counting their
huge bonuses who run that place, realize.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
This is not going to be a good look for us.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
We need this to extend to all companies and any
I'm just gonna say it to you. Any company that
will put money, okay on Rachel Maddow's show and not
not talk radio, not conservative conservative content is not your friend.
(32:00):
And they're getting away with not being your friend. They're
getting away with spitting in your face. And I think
we put an end to that. This is a different moment. Now,
this is a changed moment. They don't have the same
control they used to. Now is the time to push.
Now is the time to make demands. Sell your stuff
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Hey man, this I think this is my inaugural visit
to the program. Thanks for having me on that. Appreciate it.
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Absolutely, We're honored to have you. Clay sends his regards.
He is on the golf course today. I'm hearing rumors
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Speaker 4 (34:39):
Teez.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
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Let's just leave it.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Play on the golf course on the day I show up.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, let's let's do this, though.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Tell me what's going on. Particularly, I'm a New Yorker
at least I grew up in New York, so I
spent plenty of time in Newark. Air It has been
a total mess. The air traffic control situation. Seems like
it's a disaster that you inherited here. And is it
getting better? What is the problem? Why are we constantly
(35:13):
having all these flight delays that aren't weather related?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How does it get fixed?
Speaker 2 (35:17):
You got a lot of frustrated flyers out there who
are hoping you're going to help clear all this nonsense up.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, So, first we have to recognize this has been
a problem that's been burning for a long time, but
it was coming to a head over the last four years.
Over the last administration. Our government watchdog group sold Biden
and Blueta judge listener, you're going to have real problems.
You need to fix the air traffic control system, and
they didn't do anything. So they've left it to us.
And what you saw in Newark is kind of a
(35:45):
culmination of several of the problems that we have in
the airspace, and they happened at the same time. So
in Newark you have three things. One they shut down
a runway to repave it, right, they open it up
thirteen days before ski as well. Great on the port authority.
But the two issues that remaining, our issues that we
see throughout the whole system were three thousand air traffic
(36:08):
controllers short nationwide, and so you're seeing a lack of
controllers in the Philly tracon that controls the Newark air space.
And then we're having teletoon issues. Our our infrastructure for
air traffic control still uses copper wires. Nobody uses copper
wires anymore. Everyone's on fiber. So we were having telecom
(36:32):
issues in the Philly traycon and UH we resolved that
issue on on the on the on the copper wire.
But Verizon moved incredibly fast our partner there and laid
brand new fiber between Philly and New York and so
it's not but we're still testing that that that uh,
(36:54):
that fiber you want to be ultra safe before you
switch it over. That will be tested through at the
end of June or early July. And then there's twenty
two controllers in the Philly Traycon. Six of them are
out right now, five for the trauma that they had
because of the outages from late April early May. One
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is on sick lead. We brought in twenty two new
controllers to train in Silly right now. Now when I
say a new controller, what I mean is this could
be an air traffic controller who is certified in a
different airspace, say Denver. If they come to the Philly
tray Con to control a different airspace, they have to
get recertified on that specific airspace. And so most of
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these are experienced controllers, but it's going to take them
time to get certified. So the problems of telecom and
the problems of the runway and the problems of the controllers,
you're going to have a slow roll of continual improvement.
But you're seeing and I'm giving you a lot of
information here, Buck, but what you saw was this, we
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reduced the capacity at Newark. So all these flights were scheduled,
but they weren't flying because we reduced the capacity, and
you saw delays and cancelations, and it was a disaster
for a couple of weeks. What we've done is we've
got all the airlines to agree that we're gonna reduce
our capacity. So if you book in Newark now, you
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actually fly. And that's what's key. No one wants to
go to be here, wait four hours and be canceled.
So because of the agreement that we have at Newark,
everyone says, Okay, we're not gonna have as many flights
coming out of here, but the ones we do have
will actually go. So we're on the path to resolve
in it. But all these solutions take time because you
can't set your fingers and create more controllers, and you
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can't you know, quickly run fiber and then you know
cou be tested. But we're doing it and it's going
to get better in Newark. But give me some.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Grace now nationwide, mister secretary. There's also it feels like
and you see a lot of people complaining about it
on X I'm sure just flight delays have it feels
like the problem is constantly getting worse, not better. So
you've talked to us about Newark, but just in general
across the country, how do we get it so that
(39:14):
especially a lot of these routes where people are flying,
you know, and there's a sixty or seventy percent delay rate,
some of these delay rates just seems unconscionable. Is that
a function of airlines got to scale back the flights?
Is it air traffic control? How do we get it
so that people can really believe credibly if there's clear skies. Okay,
I'm not talking about if there's tornadoes or crazy weather,
(39:36):
but if the weather is fine, their plane's probably going
to take off when it's supposed to, and they're probably
going to get off.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
It when they're supposed to.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
Yeah, So we are using equipment that is, you know,
twenty five thirty five years old, in whether it's the
towers that are at the airports, the traycon you know,
is the next ring out from the tower. It's really
the old equipment and it's you'll telecom and so I'm
gonna need a lot of money from Congress. It should
(40:05):
have been done, you know, a decade ago. It wasn't,
and we have to basically gut and build brand new
our air traffic control system with the best technology in
the world. We can do it really quickly. It's going
to take you know, three years. If the Congress clears
the committing process for me, If I don't have to
go through an EPA, that just you know stack you know,
(40:27):
in a month upon month or a year upon year,
they clear that for me, we're gonna be able to
do it fast. And what you'll see is you can
handle greater capacity with the new system that we're going
to build, and as new technology becomes available, you can
deploy it off this new system to get even more efficiencies.
(40:47):
It's it's instead of having buck instead of having the
flip phone that you can send as many updates as
you want to your razor flip phone. If that's in
your genre, it was in mine. You can you know,
it's not an update. It is what it is. It's
all it's antiquated. That's what we have right now. But
if I build you an iPhone fifteen, you can deploy
a ton of technology off of it. We're gonna build
(41:10):
you the iPhone fifteen that you can build technology off of.
And you have to think that we're gonna have more
air travel, but it's gonna get more complicated because we're
gonna deploy. In the next years, you're gonna see drone
technology expand and services expands throughout the country. Where you're
gonna get Amazon deliveries, you're gonna get your your Uber Eats,
you're gonna get a hocked up of coffee from Starbucks
(41:32):
if you stop, if you get your coffee at Starbucks,
all by a drone. And we're gonna have evatols. These
are like the Ubers in the air. They're they're they're
they're they're they're big drones that you can hold, you know,
three four people in. You're gonna see those deploy in
the airspace.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
How far are we from that, mister Secretary, because that
sounds pretty cool, it's very cool.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
So they're they're testing these uh these uh evatols right now.
They're they're they're I think you can see the technology
advance or sure, which is one of the technologies is
actually has a contract with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight,
and it's not just the showcase of technology. They actually
have to use that technology to move people around all
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the different sites at the LA Olympics. So it's moving
very fast. The FAA has to certify it, make sure
it's safe. Eventually you'll see you and have These will
not be piloted. They can be autonomous or right now
in certain parts of the country like in Texas, the
the drone deliveries are are happening in certain parts of
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the country right now, easy successful. People love them. And
what they're done with drones is obviously the noise becomes
a concern. They've done really well innovating on props to
reduce the noise. You really know what's in the sky
when it's covering over your house, drop in product or
setting product down.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's very cool. Well, that's looking forward to having that
going on.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
But obviously, if it's tough to air traffic control for planes,
if we put thousands, tens of thousands however many drones
and air taxis in the sky, that's gonna I assume
that's going to result in some interesting air traffic issues
as well.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
So hopefully that'll all get squared away.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
Tell us about the report you just released California's high
speed rail sixteen billion dollars, seventeen years, no track laid.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
How is that possible.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Yeah, it's a great question. So first, I'm a conservative.
I would love to have high speed rail in America.
I think it would be great if we could do it.
This was the first big project and like liberals seem
to always deliver the same results, which are not very good.
This was supposed to be done years ago, and it
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was supposed to cost a little over twenty billion dollars.
They haven't laid any track. They've spent billions. They've now
told us that they can complete a truncated poor of
the project by twenty thirty three. We looked at their data.
They've given us eighty thousand pages of documents. They just
can't do it. And so they have what four billion
(44:11):
dollars of grants that have been given by the DOT
And it's our philosophy that there's if we give them
that for if we let that four billion dollars go,
that's four billion we don't have for other good projects
around the country. And I think the taxpayer expects us
to spend their money well and not to invest in boondoggles.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
And so where do the money I got to ask,
mister sig where sixteen billion dollars, it's a lot of
money for a state level project.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
What was it spent on?
Speaker 4 (44:41):
So they were buying land right and by the way,
there's there is an eyebrow raised for me in that
I was the land Who is buying land along the
route of this of this pro pose high speed rail?
And how much money did they make and how they
(45:03):
connected to politicians? All those questions need to be asked
and looked at. Is you know, was there any criminal activity?
I don't know, but I think it should be looked
at the project now it's it's out over ten years,
and if they did the full project, there was supposed
to be you know, you know, tens of billions. It
(45:24):
would be one hundred and thirty billion dollars to actually
build it, and they still don't know that they can
do it in any specific timeframe. So you have to
recognize that it's a nice concept. But liberals all spend
money well and they haven't been it well in this project.
And so at what point does does the government cut
bait and say, you know what, We're not going to
(45:44):
do this one, but maybe there's other good projects across
the country that we could invest in that would that
would serve the population law and.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
Tell us about what's in the assuming it gets passed
more or less as as is, uh, what is in
the big beautiful bill that will go to transportation that
will make a difference to the American people.
Speaker 4 (46:05):
So for us, there's twelve billion dollars for this brand
new air traffic control system. That's not going to be enough.
You got to think about this. It's this is the biggest,
it's nationwide infrastructure. It is the most important infrastructure that
we're going to build on in the last several decades.
(46:26):
For sure, because it's such a big part of our economy.
People find, whether it's business or pleasure, we move a
lot of products through the air. And so we have
twelve billion, we'll need more than that at a later point.
They're going to have to give it to us. One
of the problems buck in the past is that Congress
would give conscies of money to the FAA and then
(46:49):
the priority would change or the administration changes, and they
never got the money. So we need to get the
money up front. So twelve billion is a nice start.
We can begin the product. But this year I need
to get the rest of the money, and then in
that secondary bill we can hopefully get the throwing the
deck of the of the of the permits. I also
(47:11):
think that pull us in making sure I don't get
a massive tax increase. That's big force and the big
beautiful bill. Also, there's a provision that if you buy
a brand new car that was made in America, you
can write up to right off up to ten thousand
dollars of your interest payments on the vehicles. So again
incentivizing people to buy new cars, and the presidents doing
all kinds of things to deliver on the promises that
(47:33):
he made during the campaign, which, by the way, is
nice that we have presidents that actually do what they
say or try to accomplish what they promised.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Transpretation Secretary Sean Duffy, sir, thank you so much for
being with us, and please fix all the things.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
In the pot hole of two bout right house, I
got to you.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Yeah, you got me. Thank you, sir. Good to talk
with you.
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