September 23, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Clay and Buck dive into a packed lineup of political and cultural hot topics dominating the news cycle. The hour kicks off with a sharp critique of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, highlighting the traffic chaos and questioning why the UN remains in Manhattan instead of a less disruptive location. The hosts then pivot to Donald Trump’s bold remarks at the UN, where he dismissed climate change alarmism and called out global elites.
The conversation shifts to the mainstream media’s fading obsession with climate change, referencing a recent New York Times piece asking why the issue has “vanished” from public discourse. Clay and Buck also tackle the Ukraine war fatigue, noting the disappearance of Ukraine flags and waning liberal enthusiasm for the conflict.
Next, the hosts take aim at YouTube’s admission of COVID-era censorship, exposing how the platform silenced voices that ultimately proved correct on masking and pandemic policies. This leads to a broader discussion on Big Tech’s role in shaping narratives and stifling dissent.
The hour also covers the Jimmy Kimmel controversy, dissecting his brief suspension and return to ABC amid backlash over inflammatory comments. Clay and Buck argue that liberal media figures cry “censorship” while ignoring years of conservative deplatforming. They also explore Disney’s strategic motives, speculating that the company wants out of the news business to focus on sports and entertainment partnerships.
Finally, the segment turns to Kamala Harris’s new book tour for 107 Days and her disastrous past interview moments, including the infamous “not a thing I would have done differently” answer about the Biden administration. The hosts analyze why this response reinforced perceptions of Harris as unprepared and politically tone-deaf, and they debate what her future in the Democratic Party looks like heading into 2026.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. We are racked in, stacked a lot to
talk to you about today, breaking down all the news
for you. Trump at the United Nations producer Greg among others,
snarled in endless traffic while bureaucrats from around the planet
(00:20):
run up their government expense accounts that are very nice
New York City restaurants and block off lots of streets,
which makes it impossible to get anywhere. If we're gonna
have the UN on US soil, which I don't really
think we should, we should have it in like you know,
I don't know, Wilmington or Omaha or you name it.
(00:40):
It should not be in New York City because it
makes everything a mess for the eight million people who
actually live there for the two weeks it's there. I know,
Omaha listeners, we have a robust audience there. You're yelling
at me. Absolutely not. Okay, Well, maybe Wilmington. I don't
know how many Wilmington listeners we have. But it should
be in some place, you know, Clay, there's a reason
(01:01):
that so many countries have these capitals that they've set
up to be the capital and this is true, which
is originally true of Washington, d C. But it's true
in a lot of countries more recently. You know, whether
it's Brazilia in Brazil or Islamabad, because they want to
put all the government infrastructure there, and it's just easier.
(01:21):
Putting the United Nations in midtown Manhattan is a mess anyway,
enough for the logistics of that. I've given love to
our WR listeners who have probably had a rough commute.
If you can work remote for the next week or
two at with the UN General Assembly going on, you
should do so. But Trump was there. He's laying down
the law and a whole bunch of things. I love
that he is telling people forget about this climate change nonsense,
(01:44):
because this is going to be a moment Clay where
the Libs all of a sudden pretend again to care
about climate change. It's one of these rare issues that
it's not just that it's a big issue. And we're
about to get into Jimmy Kimmel, We're about to get
into Kamalist book. We got a million things I'm a
little fired up about.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You reminded me. I meant to mention yesterday about how
climate change has vanished? Sunday New York Times magazine cover
Why does no one talk about climate change?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now? That's like I'm saying this for weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's meant I meant to bring it up yesterday because
I was reading the Sunday New York Times. I do
it so you don't have to, much like buck, this
brand new Kamala Harris first edition is going to be
reading it so you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is it a signed condition? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It will be when Clay goes to the book. Event
though it was a huge cover story. Uh, and again
I'm paraphrasing, but it basically this Sunday was why do
we not talk about climate change anymore? Have we just
given up? You know, you're true, You're correct that it
has vanished.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It went from the thing that they were obsessed with
that we didn't care about at all, and nobody cares
about it, and now they're going to pretend they care again,
sort of like also the war in Ukraine where all
those Ukraine flags, Ukraine needs the Libs that care so
much about who controls don Boss now more than ever,
and yet not seeing a lot of that, not seeing
a lot almost like this is the thing that people
(03:02):
attach themselves to so that they can feel good about
themselves without any actual skin of the game or doing anything. Okay,
certainly true of climate change, I might add, But we
we will talk more about what Trump has said at
the United Nations. We'll certainly discuss Kamala's book, which is
I gotta say, it's just everybody just crashing this thing
(03:24):
so far. And I don't mean to be clear. Usually
this book would come out from a Democrat who would
just run and if she had a future, not gonna
argue with clever this today, but we all know how
we feel about this. If she had a future, there
would be a lot of people in the Democrat establishment
who were saying, you know, oh, man like it just
was so tough for her, and and you know, she's
(03:45):
she's a great candidate, and everyone's saying, wow, it's kind
of nasty and uh and really not so good. And
we'll talk about some of the clips and some of
her promo for the book. And yes I did buy
a copy of it, which I feel guilty about, but
I had to do it. That team you know that
that that that just is one of these things I
will take one for the team. I don't know what
(04:05):
else to tell you. Uh so I'm doing that. And
we've also got uh what else is in the mix here? YouTube?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
YouTube diving in And this is gonna be a big
story going forward because just as yet another thing that
we were right about and told you what was happening,
and now they're like, oh, yeah, by the way, we
were censoring everybody about COVID and banning all sorts of
people who ended up being right about everything. Are bad,
you know, are bad, sorry, and you're just around Like
(04:35):
I had a personal.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
YouTube channel that shut down, strike strike shut down, I mean,
over and over again. I stopped with YouTube because I
was like, this is crazy because you couldn't even say,
I could not say, don't that mask wearing outside was
unnecessary outside? Which every single study, all of the data
is that is absolutely worthless and insane. There's no reason
(04:57):
it didn't Yes, didn't matter. Masking was a religion, kind
of like climate change is a religion for people who
think they're too smart for religion. As I've told you.
We'll get into all that though, And yeah, the YouTube censorship.
Speaking of censorship, Jimmy Kimmel, Oh, Jimmy Kimmel's his face
painted on walls and water towers across America. And what
(05:19):
happened to Jimmy Kimmel. He was off the air for
four days, four shows, four shows, and Disney brings him
right back. This is funny because there have been libs
who have canceled. Here's Howard Stern who's become a huge,
very annoying lib. Maybe he always was, but at least
(05:40):
now he's really bad. Here he is fifteen saying, well,
I'll let you hear it from this guy, play fifteen.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I just know when the government begins to interfere, When
the government says I'm not pleased with you, so we're
going to orchestrate a way to silence you. It's the
wrong direction for our country. And I should know. I've
been involved in something like this, and now ABC is
put in the same position. And it's unfortunate that ABC
even has to be.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
In this position.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
They shouldn't have to be in this position. I feel
for them too in this, but someone's got to step
up and be saying, hey, enough, we're not gonna bow now.
It might sound stupid, but the thing I did this morning,
I'm canceling my Disney. Plus, I'm trying to say with
the pocketbook that I do not support what they're doing
with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay, can I just point this out now, we say
you cancel Disney, so I guess he's going to resubscribe
to Disney off the air for four days. These libs
are such babies. This is not even a scentilla Clay.
This is not even a tiny little sliver of the
cancelation and censorship and everything that the right has been
(06:48):
dealing with for twenty years now, especially online. And we're
supposed to care that Jimmy Ki. The government didn't take
him off the air, you know how we know that
he's back on the air. I guess the government wasn't
so scary after all. ABC News did this, I think
to protect him, because the second round of what he
was going to say on air was even dumber than
the first. I think there's truth to that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I have been saying since this all started, and I
think people are going to slowly start to recognize this
is about Disney trying to buy the NFL network. I'm sorry,
Jimmy Kimmel is just a pawn here. I think if
Disney could just do away with almost all news. I
think they would because they've basically done it at ESPN.
(07:30):
ESPN breaks no news. Now they're in bed with the NFL,
they're in bed with the SEC, they're in bed with
the NBA. Every time they break news, it just hurts
their business partners, and so they're basically just a glorified
middleman when it comes to sports. And then I think
Disney just wants to make look left wing unfortunate programming.
(07:52):
But I don't think they actually want to do news.
I think if they could sell ABC News and get
out of the news business completely, I think it's just
a mess to them. It doesn't make any money. Jimmy
Kimmel's show loses money at this point. If you were
just analyzing aspects of their business, this creates way more
headaches than it does provide profits. And that's a bad combination.
(08:15):
And I think they won out.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know. I gotta say, uh, when I'm at the
Jim Clay down to one ninety by the way, I'm
coming for you, buddy, where you want to You're gonna
catch me. You want eighty five? Yeah, I don't know.
I saw you putting away that ham sandwich other day.
I'm thinking one eighty seven maybe, But anyway, yes, I'm uh.
By the way, I have to respect one thing about Clay.
(08:37):
You know, you all know Clay is uh. Clay is Clay,
and he's been a he's been a very uh successful entrepreneur.
Put it that way. He will still drink a big
old bottle of mountain dew in our studio. He is
the only person I know, the only human being I
know who in his forties drinks mountain dew. So I'm
i gotta say Clay does not changed one bit. Laura
(09:00):
has gotten me to give up soda. But did I
just blow you up in front of it?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, I occasionally will have a soda, but it is
super unhealthy. I get ripped all the time for the
clothes that I wear, for the uh for the food
choices that I make. I really haven't changed very much
since I was like eighteen, for better or worse. So
when it comes to what I wear or what I
eat and uh So.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I would just say all back to the Kimmel thing
for a second, because I was I was saying when
I when I go to the gym, and I've gotten
that one ninety now whenever I see the screen, it's
always sports in my gym. They know, they don't allow
Fox News. All these sports are on all they don't
have any news to be fair, really, maybe CNN's on sometimes.
I got to talk to them about that, but I
see what that what the headlines are, And it's never
(09:49):
news about sports. It's always just people having inane, inane
discussions like is so insite? And you know, I know,
you know all these people in their backgrounds, I mean
the people they're talking about, but it's always is so
and so's new coaching contract? Like too much or just
about right? And then you have adults sitting around talking.
I'm like, who cares? Like what is this? You're very
(10:10):
someone else's coaching pay And they are four people at
a table and I can just see because it's all
scrolling with the text, Like I cannot believe there are
adults having this conversation and this is like a thing
that they're doing on this show. Who Cares? But I
have even noticed that it's not sports reporting anymore. Yeah,
they're not breaking news about the sports industry. It's like
(10:31):
who's better? You know, it's all versions of who's better
Lebron or Jordan it's all you know. I take this side,
you take that side of inane argument at ESPN, and
I think it's just because you're right about how they
really just want to be a middleman broadcasting of live
sports with a lot of chatter in between the last.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The worst thing for them would be to blow up
one of their franchise properties because they do a story
that knocks a really good talented player out of being
able to be on television for them because it costs
them money. Speaking of being on television, I now have
an FS one show where I sit around and talk
about all the inane sports things that airs at six
(11:09):
pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I got everyt gym now every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
If you're working out at six pm FS one, you'll
just see me. This is actually pretty funny. It's just
me sitting and making sports arguments. I don't have anybody
that I'm debating. It's just me in my own head. Laura, today,
this is one hundred percent try. We're taping it. We
tape it a day early. She said what time are
you taping? And I was like, oh, maybe she wants
to come up pay attention to see the you know,
(11:35):
sports arguments. And I was like, oh, you know two
thirty and she said okay, and I was like, you know,
you got something going on. She was like no, I
just want to make sure that we have someone putting
makeup on you because and I was like, well, I've
been doing television for a long time. You know, I
don't ever wear makeup unless I'm in a studio. And
she was like yeah, but this one, they really kind
(11:56):
of zoom in on you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This is all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And I was like, so you're telling me I have
to wear She was like, yeah, yeah, I think you
have to wear makeup, so this is I will be
made up, but I but I usually am never in
makeup for any hit. But Laura was like, no, the
camera's two h to D. They're too close. They really
zoom in on you. You need to have makeup on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
She's just look, she's just looking out for you. Noone's
got to tell you the hard truths Clay and I
guess ready, she's ready for it. I will say this
Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. We both said this
was going to happen, so we knew this was going
to happen. I pointed out immediately when this happened, I said, guys,
it's an indefinite suspension. That does not mean And even
the White House was saying, oh, he's been canceled. He
you know, his show has been can No, it hasn't.
(12:39):
He's back on the air. Very curious to see if
there's I don't think they'll really. My guess is there
won't only be any shift in the ratings. But to
me Clay, more than anything else, this just goes to
show you libs have no idea what actual censorship and
being shut down is because they don't experience it. And
the moment that they can even make a fake argument,
in my opinion, this was always a VC was always
(13:00):
driving this ship. It was not the Trump Trump administration
that was at the helm here. And and the fact
that they tried to make this argument so quickly and
so you know, so vociferously, just goes to show you
they're a bunch of cry babies and they just want
different rules for us and different rules for them. And
unfortunately they still have it at ABC.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
One wrinkle here that is not being talked about very
much but is still in play. Next Star and Sinclair
are not carrying it. So, for instance, in Nashville, my
ABC affiliate, I won't be able to watch the Jimmy
Kimmel Show. And many of you out there that have
(13:39):
either a Sinclair or Next Star affiliate, you wouldn't know
unless you put your television on at eleven thirty pm
Eastern ten thirty Central, you wouldn't really know whether or
not probably who your affiliate is. But that is something
that I think could still be an issue because around
thirty five percent of viewers nation wide will not have
(14:01):
access to this show. And I'm curious somewhat to see
what he says. I'll tell you what I think he
should say when we come back. In the meantime, it's
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(14:22):
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weighing three score and twelve year old here who still
drinks mountain dew. So Clay's in good company. One thing
to remember, do not drink it and drive, or else
(15:26):
you will get a d Do ui do Ui? That
is a very good dad joke out there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I can just see him wearing his big khaki shorts
and his new balanced sneakers and his fanny pack full
of or I should say tool belt, because that's what
the dads wear, the tool belt.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I that is very well said. So on the Jimmy
Kimmel thing. If I were advising him on what he
should do when he comes back. We had Adam Carolla
on the show yesterday. Some of you heard he's been
buddies with Adam Carolla. Jimmy has for a long time.
I would actually advise him to say, I screwed up.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It was a left winger who killed I don't think
he'll do this, but this is what I would advise.
It was a left winger who killed Charlie Kirk. It's
completely unacceptable that that happened. And I spoke, spoke inarticulately
as I was attempting to try to tell a joke,
which was probably timing on a joke that was unnecessary
and ill decided as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So one, yes, you're right in terms of he should
do an apology, but we both know he won't. Two,
he wasn't telling a joke. He was telling a lie
and spitting in the faces of millions and millions of
grieving people. It wasn't a joke that went too far.
It wasn't a ooh too soon. It was basically bleep
all of you who are upset about the most horrific
(16:53):
political assassination in you know, fifty years, And what I
would look at Buck as you know, and a lot
of people probably know this, but all this is written
in a teleprompter, and he has an entire team of writers.
I would advise get some writers who voted for Trump,
because I think people would have said, Hey, you're living
(17:14):
in blue sky, You're living in this crazy alternate universe
where a lot of people believed.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That this killer was a left winger. And then the
second part is I would have Trump voters on every week.
I would say going forward, That's what my advice would be. Yes,
it's good advice, but Clay, this is like fantasy land stuff.
I was at CNN before it went totally insane.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Every writer that he has, every person with any say
on that show, every executive weigh in hate Trump voters,
all of them. There is no sanity over there.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, let's talk Tamala for a little bit years
because she's on her book tour. You'll remember Kamala Harrish's
a vice president for years. She was disastrous in every
role they pretended to give her. She didn't even have
to do anything. She just had to not make it
clear that she had no idea about the thing that
she had been made in charge of, or the czar of,
(19:14):
like the border. Well, we all remember we've been to
the border, unless you halt being like lady, you haven't
been to the border, like you can't, you know, there's
only so much we can do for you here at
was the ABC News, right NBC.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I think if less if Lester Holt lights you up,
I mean, that's like, you know, that's like like mister.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Rogers throwing an elbow and hit you right in the jaw.
You know, that's tough.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Like you know, like if if you were walking down
the street and you bumped into Al Roker and he
like just beat beat you up, you'd be like, I
don't feel good about your chances to defend yourself against anybody.
I mean, when you get bodied by Lester Holt, you're
probably not a very serious politician.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Old school owl would have had a little more weight
to throw behind it. But uh, you know, to be fair.
But now yeah, now you can't. You can't get you
can't get slapped around by him. We have so much
much about Kamala that's worth discussing, and let's let's just
go back to this one because her book is out now.
And remember, if you're like buck, why do we care? Well,
(20:10):
first of all, there's an election coming up in a year,
basically fifteen months or so, you're going to start to
see people at the exploratory committees and raising money and whatever.
So it's not that far out. But even beyond that,
who's the leader of the Democrat Party right now? And
we talk about this day to day because we know
there's opposition to Trump and the Republicans out there. We
(20:31):
know that they actually got a lot of votes in
this last election. We're not forgetting about that, but there
has to be some group of people, if not one person,
who are really driving the you know, driving the vote
or you know, making making the decisions about where the
party's going. And it's very unclear right now in a
way that it has never been. We we have lived
(20:53):
Clay right through the era of Clinton's Obama's bide ins
a little bit. But you know, there have been these
names in politics, like we all knew who the top
Democrats were more or less for the last twenty years,
who the big names were. And you know, there was
a little period where you had some you know, John
Kerry was making a play for it, right and there
(21:14):
have been some others, But now we don't know, and
it's worth noting that they don't know either, and it's
fun to watch the scramble here on the View trying
to push her book, and I'm sure she wants to
sell out of copies because Kama wants to make money.
The View host Sonny Houston, who I am told reliably
by the way Clay from a source very close to
(21:36):
the show, is incredibly hostile to both staff and fellow
panelists on that. Does that surprise you at all? Nope,
but I was just told that recently. I cannot divulge sources,
but she is the story. I am told that she
is a nightmare to deal with for everybody. Everybody on
that show and Seid so all the like we love
(21:58):
each other's stuff is nonsense. If you had to pick
one who is impossible, it's her, I guess by far.
I don't even think there would be a close second. Look.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I think that Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behart often say
and make moronic arguments, but they are to be fair
comedians and background. Sonny is arrogant and dumb, which is
a bad combination because she has no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What she's talking about. This is one of the things
like Notre Dame Yeah, there's like a bitterness to her
too all the time. Notre Dame Law School should ask
for the JV back. She is awful and she seems awful.
So that does not surprise me at all. So you
will recall little throwback here, little throwback Tuesday to October
(22:45):
eighth of twenty twenty four, so coming up on almost
exactly a year ago. And that's also the other part
of this, right, it was a year ago that they
were telling us Kamala is great. Vote for Kamala. You
gotta vote for Kamala. We could tell they're like, do
you really want to for Kamala?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Do you really want to? Not really? But here was
about a year ago Kamala when asked on the View
by Sonny Austin if she would do anything differently, and
this was mannafique perfection play it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
If anything, would you have done something differently than President
Biden during the past four years? There is not a
thing that comes to mind in terms of and I've
been a part of most of the decisions that have had.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Impact Clay Clay. That was that was a moment where
I was feeling so good about the prediction that he
was going to do even better against against Kamla that
Trump was than he did against Hillary. She did you
want she was react. Let's repack to that again.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I mean Kamala has had and even back then, had
months to prepare for every possible question that could be answered,
could be asked.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
This is not a very difficult proposition. You and I.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You're going to have your book coming out in in January.
I'll have my book coming out in November. We will
be asked hundreds of questions as part of book promotion,
and we will have had no preparation. We'll have no whiteboarding,
we'll have no team that sits around and just sketches
out what our answers to questions should be, because we're
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not morons. This was an inevitable and totally expected question
that she bungled, and then she's talking about it now,
she's promoting. She went back on for the first time,
and I don't even know what the conversation was, but
we've got audio of Sunny houstin following thirty four play it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I asked you if there was anything you would have
done differently than President Biden during the past four years,
and you said, quote, there is not a thing that
comes to mind end quote. You're right, you had no idea.
You just pull the pin on a hand grenade. In
the moment, I knew the Trump campaign weaponized your answer
(24:57):
against you my question, and some including James Carvill and
Jake Tapper point to that answer as a turning point
in your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Do you think that moment tipped the election? No? Good,
because Sonny doesn't want to take the blame.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, can I can I point something out, Clay, just
in the lack of logic that even Sonny hostin in
that one little moment shows us she knows that it's
a horrible answer herself. She said that she knew right away.
Oh my god, Kamala's answer is absolutely atrocious. But then
she goes to and Republicans weaponized weaponized, meaning like they
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what they took it out of context. They were on fair. No,
if you knew it was a moronic answer, Sonny, everybody
knew it was.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
A moronic answer. They didn't weaponize her answer, they just
used her answer. Yes, she weaponized the answer by being
a moron. But I so I jotted down on my
little yellow notepad, weaponized your answer, which you just hit
second part there that I also jotted down. Everybody laughed
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because they know that Sonny Hostin is not there to
actually do journalism. She's there to burnish Kamala Harris's credentials.
Play that cut again because the weaponized answer is interesting.
But the joke that everybody laughs at because it's true
is Sonny Hostin didn't want to do anything that might
(26:24):
in any way harm Kamala Harris's candidacy, and all of
the audience understands it too. Play that cut one more
time because I think it just goes to the failure
of the view of all things to actually have a
wide variety of views is one of the issues that
I think ABC News is dealing with in general. Let's
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play that one more time.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I asked you if there was anything you would have
done differently than President Biden during the past four years,
and you said, quote, there is not a thing that
comes to mind.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
End quote. You're right, you had no idea. You just
pull the pin on a hand grenade.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
In the moment, I knew the Trump campaign weaponized your
answer against you my question, and some including James Carville
and Jake Tapper, point to that answer as a turning
point in your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Do you think that moment tiped the election?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No good because Sonny doesn't want to take the blend.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I don't think it. Yeah, I don't think it tipped
the election. I just think it was solidifying. I think Clay,
if anything, that was a straw that broke the camel's
back situation. I don't think that it was. It's not
like everybody thought Kamala was great and then she said
that and they said, whoa where did that come from?
It was, oh my god, she's as dumb and unprepared
as we thought she was this whole time. And even
(27:51):
people who maybe were open to I'll vote either way
had to see that and say this is preposterous.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I also think you're going to be the expert on
this because you have bought and downloaded the newest Kamala book.
You know how you when you finished your book, and
certainly when I finished my book, at some point, you've
gone over it enough times that it's hard to see
it with a fresh eye because you poured over it
so much. I think one of the most challenging aspects
(28:19):
I would bet of making a movie, certainly, I know
writing a book is eventually seeing it as a fresh reader,
will I think that is where instincts politically matter. And
what I have read already of the reviews of Kamala's
book is that I think she didn't understand how much
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distaste there was for Joe Biden, and she didn't think
she had given a bad answer to that question. And
her advisors might not have realized it was a bad
answer either, because they're so close to the Biden administration
that they've lost perspective on how it looks to the
larger voting public, and they thought she needed to ally
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herself with Biden because he was popular enough that she
couldn't show any distinction between herself and him.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
She she should have. If she were a skilled politician,
she would have known that the single biggest vulnerability that
Democrats had in this last election was the ten million
people who poured into the country via illegal and fraudulent means. Uh.
And if she had said, you know, we, if she
was a skilled politician, she would have said something, in
(29:30):
my opinion, play like, you know, Joe Biden, we had
so many victories and and you know there's I don't
want to forget about those, but I would say that
given the realities of the complexities of our immigration system.
We needed to have that reform done earlier to make
sure that only you know, the the legitimate asylum seekers
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and the best and the brightest blah blah blah. And
that's what we'll do in my next term, is to
figure out how we're only getting how we are getting
not only getting you know, great immigrants from all over
the world. You know, by the way, this audience is
not gonna like that answer, but that's an answer that
could have worked. That's the point. Instead, you just said nonsense.
I don't even think the answer is that hard. If
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you are a decent politician, I think the answer to
that question is Joe Biden did a lot of things.
We took over an economy and disaster because of the
awful leadership. I'm answering it as if I were Kamala
the awful leadership of Donald Trump, who failed to lead
us well during COVID.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
We took over a dumpster fire. First thing we had
to do was put the fire out. I understand that
people feel like they haven't seen the results of the
work we've done yet. That's what I'm here to do.
We've put the fire out we're put America back on
its feet, and we are working towards getting things infinitely better.
So there are a lot of things that I think
(30:50):
we both could have done better. I think we did
a much better job than Trump, and I know we're
going to do a much better job in the next
four years. Look, that's me off the cuff answering that question,
and that's a great non answer. That's a great non
answer answer. But that's all she had to do, right,
is say something like we've done great things. We're gonna
do more great things. You don't say I can't think
of anything, because that makes you seem like an empty vessel.
(31:12):
Not only that, it actually makes you endorse every decision
that has been made, as opposed to saying again, I
would pivot and attack Trump in that answer.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
He's so bad.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
We took over a dumpster fire. The first thing you
have to do is put out the fire, and it
takes a while for the results of the work we're doing.
I'm a younger version of Joe Biden. I'm gonna do
a better job connecting with the American public going forward.
But I think we put the country on great footing.
Any answer like that, it vanishes, nobody pays attention to it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Look, I'll say this and people will get mad at me,
But that's okay because you all know that it's true.
Whatever you may think of Sarah Palin. The answer with
Katie Kuric was a similar It was when someone asks
you what do you read? You say something, you say something,
You don't say things like I read things basically, you know,
or what do you mean by that? Right now? You
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could say that's unfair, No one is. You know, I've
a crash Katie Kirk more than probably anybody else on
the right these days. I mean, I still think that
the fact that she got as far as she did
in her career, she's just a ruthless mediocrity. But I'm
just saying that was a bad answer from Sarah Pellin.
So you can't do that. You can't have the non
answer to the question. That's an obvious question you should
be ready for because even passers by in politics pick
(32:28):
up on that and go, oh, that wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And your job is to do two things as president,
make decisions and communicate. That's really it. Now, there are
complexities associated with it. If you can't answer basic questions,
your job is a communicator. Let's leave aside the fact
that I think Kamalo would have been an awful decision
maker too, But if you can't even communicate answers to
(32:52):
basic questions, then you're in real trouble. Trump is an
elite communicator. I think he's making really good decisions too.
But those are the two jobs of the president, and
if you can't do both at a high level, you're
going to fail. And Biden was awful at everything. He
would have done better going full Costanza buck and just
taking the opposite of every choice he made. The country
(33:13):
would have been better off.
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Speaker 1 (34:38):
Guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome Back in Play Travis, Buck Sexton
Show Comala Tour Underway YouTube. Admitting that it's censored people
who had conservative thoughts. We'll talk about that as well
as additional new that may be coming out about the
Jimmy Kimmel situation. I did want to say it is
(35:09):
very interesting if you look at the Kamala angle. This
is me kind of teasing where we're going buck Rachel
Maddow actually kind of went after her because Rachel Maddow
is a lesbian over Kamala Harris saying she couldn't pick
Pete may or Pete because he is gay, and I
want to play that answer, but I also think it
(35:29):
goes to the tension inherent in the Democrat Party going forward.
They've got a lot of pro and con identity groups
now that they're trying to keep together, whether it is
the gay and lesbian alliance, also with the trans whether
it is black voters being responsive to gay politicians, and
(35:53):
also the Israel angle, because I think that really went
into how Kamala Harris ended up with Tim Way Walls,
which was she kind of got herself into a corner
because everybody else had an interest group that was allied
against them, and then you get this imbecile Tim Walls,
(36:13):
who I would love if he lost the governor's race.
I don't think he will, unfortunately, because I think Minnesota's
got too many crazy people. But it is I think
an intriguing examination into how her VP selection went down
that basically she had to eliminate a lot of people
and he was the last guy left standing.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, yes, And like Kamala realizes, this is the moment
to change the narrative because it's a very bad narrative
for her after that election. I don't think it's going
so well for her. And the Rachel Maddow appearance play,
I don't think it's helping. We're gonna talk about it
in the moment.
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show. We are racked in, stacked a lot to
talk to you about today, breaking down all the news
for you. Trump at the United Nations producer Greg among others,
snarled in endless traffic while bureaucrats from around the planet
(00:20):
run up their government expense accounts that are very nice
New York City restaurants and block off lots of streets,
which makes it impossible to get anywhere. If we're gonna
have the UN on US soil, which I don't really
think we should, we should have it in like you know,
I don't know, Wilmington or Omaha or you name it.
(00:40):
It should not be in New York City because it
makes everything a mess for the eight million people who
actually live there for the two weeks it's there. I know,
Omaha listeners, we have a robust audience there. You're yelling
at me. Absolutely not. Okay, Well, maybe Wilmington. I don't
know how many Wilmington listeners we have. But it should
be in some place, you know, Clay, there's a reason
(01:01):
that so many countries have these capitals that they've set
up to be the capital and this is true, which
is originally true of Washington, d C. But it's true
in a lot of countries more recently. You know, whether
it's Brazilia in Brazil or Islamabad, because they want to
put all the government infrastructure there, and it's just easier.
(01:21):
Putting the United Nations in midtown Manhattan is a mess anyway,
enough for the logistics of that. I've given love to
our WR listeners who have probably had a rough commute.
If you can work remote for the next week or
two at with the UN General Assembly going on, you
should do so. But Trump was there. He's laying down
the law and a whole bunch of things. I love
that he is telling people forget about this climate change nonsense,
(01:44):
because this is going to be a moment Clay where
the Libs all of a sudden pretend again to care
about climate change. It's one of these rare issues that
it's not just that it's a big issue. And we're
about to get into Jimmy Kimmel, We're about to get
into Kamalist book. We got a million things I'm a
little fired up about.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You reminded me. I meant to mention yesterday about how
climate change has vanished? Sunday New York Times magazine cover
Why does no one talk about climate change?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Now? That's like I'm saying this for weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's meant I meant to bring it up yesterday because
I was reading the Sunday New York Times. I do
it so you don't have to, much like buck, this
brand new Kamala Harris first edition is going to be
reading it so you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Is it a signed condition? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
It will be when Clay goes to the book. Event
though it was a huge cover story. Uh, and again
I'm paraphrasing, but it basically this Sunday was why do
we not talk about climate change anymore? Have we just
given up? You know, you're true, You're correct that it
has vanished.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
It went from the thing that they were obsessed with
that we didn't care about at all, and nobody cares
about it, and now they're going to pretend they care again,
sort of like also the war in Ukraine where all
those Ukraine flags, Ukraine needs the Libs that care so
much about who controls don Boss now more than ever,
and yet not seeing a lot of that, not seeing
a lot almost like this is the thing that people
(03:02):
attach themselves to so that they can feel good about
themselves without any actual skin of the game or doing anything. Okay,
certainly true of climate change, I might add, But we
we will talk more about what Trump has said at
the United Nations. We'll certainly discuss Kamala's book, which is
I gotta say, it's just everybody just crashing this thing
(03:24):
so far. And I don't mean to be clear. Usually
this book would come out from a Democrat who would
just run and if she had a future, not gonna
argue with clever this today, but we all know how
we feel about this. If she had a future, there
would be a lot of people in the Democrat establishment
who were saying, you know, oh, man like it just
was so tough for her, and and you know, she's
(03:45):
she's a great candidate, and everyone's saying, wow, it's kind
of nasty and uh and really not so good. And
we'll talk about some of the clips and some of
her promo for the book. And yes I did buy
a copy of it, which I feel guilty about, but
I had to do it. That team you know that
that that that just is one of these things I
will take one for the team. I don't know what
(04:05):
else to tell you. Uh so I'm doing that. And
we've also got uh what else is in the mix here? YouTube?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
YouTube diving in And this is gonna be a big
story going forward because just as yet another thing that
we were right about and told you what was happening,
and now they're like, oh, yeah, by the way, we
were censoring everybody about COVID and banning all sorts of
people who ended up being right about everything. Are bad,
you know, are bad, sorry, and you're just around Like
(04:35):
I had a personal.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
YouTube channel that shut down, strike strike shut down, I mean,
over and over again. I stopped with YouTube because I
was like, this is crazy because you couldn't even say,
I could not say, don't that mask wearing outside was
unnecessary outside? Which every single study, all of the data
is that is absolutely worthless and insane. There's no reason
(04:57):
it didn't Yes, didn't matter. Masking was a religion, kind
of like climate change is a religion for people who
think they're too smart for religion. As I've told you.
We'll get into all that though, And yeah, the YouTube censorship.
Speaking of censorship, Jimmy Kimmel, Oh, Jimmy Kimmel's his face
painted on walls and water towers across America. And what
(05:19):
happened to Jimmy Kimmel. He was off the air for
four days, four shows, four shows, and Disney brings him
right back. This is funny because there have been libs
who have canceled. Here's Howard Stern who's become a huge,
very annoying lib. Maybe he always was, but at least
(05:40):
now he's really bad. Here he is fifteen saying, well,
I'll let you hear it from this guy, play fifteen.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I just know when the government begins to interfere, When
the government says I'm not pleased with you, so we're
going to orchestrate a way to silence you. It's the
wrong direction for our country. And I should know. I've
been involved in something like this, and now ABC is
put in the same position. And it's unfortunate that ABC
even has to be.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
In this position.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
They shouldn't have to be in this position. I feel
for them too in this, but someone's got to step
up and be saying, hey, enough, we're not gonna bow now.
It might sound stupid, but the thing I did this morning,
I'm canceling my Disney. Plus, I'm trying to say with
the pocketbook that I do not support what they're doing
with Jimmy.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Okay, can I just point this out now, we say
you cancel Disney, so I guess he's going to resubscribe
to Disney off the air for four days. These libs
are such babies. This is not even a scentilla Clay.
This is not even a tiny little sliver of the
cancelation and censorship and everything that the right has been
(06:48):
dealing with for twenty years now, especially online. And we're
supposed to care that Jimmy Ki. The government didn't take
him off the air, you know how we know that
he's back on the air. I guess the government wasn't
so scary after all. ABC News did this, I think
to protect him, because the second round of what he
was going to say on air was even dumber than
the first. I think there's truth to that.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I have been saying since this all started, and I
think people are going to slowly start to recognize this
is about Disney trying to buy the NFL network. I'm sorry,
Jimmy Kimmel is just a pawn here. I think if
Disney could just do away with almost all news. I
think they would because they've basically done it at ESPN.
(07:30):
ESPN breaks no news. Now they're in bed with the NFL,
they're in bed with the SEC, they're in bed with
the NBA. Every time they break news, it just hurts
their business partners, and so they're basically just a glorified
middleman when it comes to sports. And then I think
Disney just wants to make look left wing unfortunate programming.
(07:52):
But I don't think they actually want to do news.
I think if they could sell ABC News and get
out of the news business completely, I think it's just
a mess to them. It doesn't make any money. Jimmy
Kimmel's show loses money at this point. If you were
just analyzing aspects of their business, this creates way more
headaches than it does provide profits. And that's a bad combination.
(08:15):
And I think they won out.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know. I gotta say, uh, when I'm at the
Jim Clay down to one ninety by the way, I'm
coming for you, buddy, where you want to You're gonna
catch me. You want eighty five? Yeah, I don't know.
I saw you putting away that ham sandwich other day.
I'm thinking one eighty seven maybe, But anyway, yes, I'm uh.
By the way, I have to respect one thing about Clay.
(08:37):
You know, you all know Clay is uh. Clay is Clay,
and he's been a he's been a very uh successful entrepreneur.
Put it that way. He will still drink a big
old bottle of mountain dew in our studio. He is
the only person I know, the only human being I
know who in his forties drinks mountain dew. So I'm
i gotta say Clay does not changed one bit. Laura
(09:00):
has gotten me to give up soda. But did I
just blow you up in front of it?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, I occasionally will have a soda, but it is
super unhealthy. I get ripped all the time for the
clothes that I wear, for the uh for the food
choices that I make. I really haven't changed very much
since I was like eighteen, for better or worse. So
when it comes to what I wear or what I
eat and uh So.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I would just say all back to the Kimmel thing
for a second, because I was I was saying when
I when I go to the gym, and I've gotten
that one ninety now whenever I see the screen, it's
always sports in my gym. They know, they don't allow
Fox News. All these sports are on all they don't
have any news to be fair, really, maybe CNN's on sometimes.
I got to talk to them about that, but I
see what that what the headlines are, And it's never
(09:49):
news about sports. It's always just people having inane, inane
discussions like is so insite? And you know, I know,
you know all these people in their backgrounds, I mean
the people they're talking about, but it's always is so
and so's new coaching contract? Like too much or just
about right? And then you have adults sitting around talking.
I'm like, who cares? Like what is this? You're very
(10:10):
someone else's coaching pay And they are four people at
a table and I can just see because it's all
scrolling with the text, Like I cannot believe there are
adults having this conversation and this is like a thing
that they're doing on this show. Who Cares? But I
have even noticed that it's not sports reporting anymore. Yeah,
they're not breaking news about the sports industry. It's like
(10:31):
who's better? You know, it's all versions of who's better
Lebron or Jordan it's all you know. I take this side,
you take that side of inane argument at ESPN, and
I think it's just because you're right about how they
really just want to be a middleman broadcasting of live
sports with a lot of chatter in between the last.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
The worst thing for them would be to blow up
one of their franchise properties because they do a story
that knocks a really good talented player out of being
able to be on television for them because it costs
them money. Speaking of being on television, I now have
an FS one show where I sit around and talk
about all the inane sports things that airs at six
(11:09):
pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I got everyt gym now every Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
If you're working out at six pm FS one, you'll
just see me. This is actually pretty funny. It's just
me sitting and making sports arguments. I don't have anybody
that I'm debating. It's just me in my own head. Laura, today,
this is one hundred percent try. We're taping it. We
tape it a day early. She said what time are
you taping? And I was like, oh, maybe she wants
to come up pay attention to see the you know,
(11:35):
sports arguments. And I was like, oh, you know two
thirty and she said okay, and I was like, you know,
you got something going on. She was like no, I
just want to make sure that we have someone putting
makeup on you because and I was like, well, I've
been doing television for a long time. You know, I
don't ever wear makeup unless I'm in a studio. And
she was like yeah, but this one, they really kind
(11:56):
of zoom in on you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
This is all.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And I was like, so you're telling me I have
to wear She was like, yeah, yeah, I think you
have to wear makeup, so this is I will be
made up, but I but I usually am never in
makeup for any hit. But Laura was like, no, the
camera's two h to D. They're too close. They really
zoom in on you. You need to have makeup on.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
She's just look, she's just looking out for you. Noone's
got to tell you the hard truths Clay and I
guess ready, she's ready for it. I will say this
Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. We both said this
was going to happen, so we knew this was going
to happen. I pointed out immediately when this happened, I said, guys,
it's an indefinite suspension. That does not mean And even
the White House was saying, oh, he's been canceled. He
you know, his show has been can No, it hasn't.
(12:39):
He's back on the air. Very curious to see if
there's I don't think they'll really. My guess is there
won't only be any shift in the ratings. But to
me Clay, more than anything else, this just goes to
show you libs have no idea what actual censorship and
being shut down is because they don't experience it. And
the moment that they can even make a fake argument,
in my opinion, this was always a VC was always
(13:00):
driving this ship. It was not the Trump Trump administration
that was at the helm here. And and the fact
that they tried to make this argument so quickly and
so you know, so vociferously, just goes to show you
they're a bunch of cry babies and they just want
different rules for us and different rules for them. And
unfortunately they still have it at ABC.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
One wrinkle here that is not being talked about very
much but is still in play. Next Star and Sinclair
are not carrying it. So, for instance, in Nashville, my
ABC affiliate, I won't be able to watch the Jimmy
Kimmel Show. And many of you out there that have
(13:39):
either a Sinclair or Next Star affiliate, you wouldn't know
unless you put your television on at eleven thirty pm
Eastern ten thirty Central, you wouldn't really know whether or
not probably who your affiliate is. But that is something
that I think could still be an issue because around
thirty five percent of viewers nation wide will not have
(14:01):
access to this show. And I'm curious somewhat to see
what he says. I'll tell you what I think he
should say when we come back. In the meantime, it's
been nearly two years since Amas Terris murdered more than
twelve hundred innocent Israelis took two hundred and fifty hostages
before the day was over. In a couple of weekends,
there's going to be a special remembrance and remember Hamas
(14:22):
still has hostages. Two years they have been holding some
of these hostages this weekend. As we get ready a
couple of weekends from now, Flags of Fellowship is going
to be going on, organized by the International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews. Date is Sunday, October fifth, just a
couple of weeks away, millions of Americans will plant an
(14:43):
Israeli flag in honor and solidarity with the victims of
October seventh, twenty twenty three and their grieving families. To
learn how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement,
visit the Fellowship online at IFCJ dot org. Stand up
for Israel and join the movement. That's IFCJ dot org
(15:05):
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weighing three score and twelve year old here who still
drinks mountain dew. So Clay's in good company. One thing
to remember, do not drink it and drive, or else
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you will get a d Do ui do Ui? That
is a very good dad joke out there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I can just see him wearing his big khaki shorts
and his new balanced sneakers and his fanny pack full
of or I should say tool belt, because that's what
the dads wear, the tool belt.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
I that is very well said. So on the Jimmy
Kimmel thing. If I were advising him on what he
should do when he comes back. We had Adam Carolla
on the show yesterday. Some of you heard he's been
buddies with Adam Carolla. Jimmy has for a long time.
I would actually advise him to say, I screwed up.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It was a left winger who killed I don't think
he'll do this, but this is what I would advise.
It was a left winger who killed Charlie Kirk. It's
completely unacceptable that that happened. And I spoke, spoke inarticulately
as I was attempting to try to tell a joke,
which was probably timing on a joke that was unnecessary
and ill decided as well.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
So one, yes, you're right in terms of he should
do an apology, but we both know he won't. Two,
he wasn't telling a joke. He was telling a lie
and spitting in the faces of millions and millions of
grieving people. It wasn't a joke that went too far.
It wasn't a ooh too soon. It was basically bleep
all of you who are upset about the most horrific
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political assassination in you know, fifty years, And what I
would look at Buck as you know, and a lot
of people probably know this, but all this is written
in a teleprompter, and he has an entire team of writers.
I would advise get some writers who voted for Trump,
because I think people would have said, Hey, you're living
(17:14):
in blue sky, You're living in this crazy alternate universe
where a lot of people believed.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
That this killer was a left winger. And then the
second part is I would have Trump voters on every week.
I would say going forward, That's what my advice would be. Yes,
it's good advice, but Clay, this is like fantasy land stuff.
I was at CNN before it went totally insane.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Every writer that he has, every person with any say
on that show, every executive weigh in hate Trump voters,
all of them. There is no sanity over there.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
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Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, let's talk Tamala for a little bit years
because she's on her book tour. You'll remember Kamala Harrish's
a vice president for years. She was disastrous in every
role they pretended to give her. She didn't even have
to do anything. She just had to not make it
clear that she had no idea about the thing that
she had been made in charge of, or the czar of,
(19:14):
like the border. Well, we all remember we've been to
the border, unless you halt being like lady, you haven't
been to the border, like you can't, you know, there's
only so much we can do for you here at
was the ABC News, right NBC.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I think if less if Lester Holt lights you up,
I mean, that's like, you know, that's like like mister.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Rogers throwing an elbow and hit you right in the jaw.
You know, that's tough.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Like you know, like if if you were walking down
the street and you bumped into Al Roker and he
like just beat beat you up, you'd be like, I
don't feel good about your chances to defend yourself against anybody.
I mean, when you get bodied by Lester Holt, you're
probably not a very serious politician.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Old school owl would have had a little more weight
to throw behind it. But uh, you know, to be fair.
But now yeah, now you can't. You can't get you
can't get slapped around by him. We have so much
much about Kamala that's worth discussing, and let's let's just
go back to this one because her book is out now.
And remember, if you're like buck, why do we care? Well,
(20:10):
first of all, there's an election coming up in a year,
basically fifteen months or so, you're going to start to
see people at the exploratory committees and raising money and whatever.
So it's not that far out. But even beyond that,
who's the leader of the Democrat Party right now? And
we talk about this day to day because we know
there's opposition to Trump and the Republicans out there. We
(20:31):
know that they actually got a lot of votes in
this last election. We're not forgetting about that, but there
has to be some group of people, if not one person,
who are really driving the you know, driving the vote
or you know, making making the decisions about where the
party's going. And it's very unclear right now in a
way that it has never been. We we have lived
(20:53):
Clay right through the era of Clinton's Obama's bide ins
a little bit. But you know, there have been these
names in politics, like we all knew who the top
Democrats were more or less for the last twenty years,
who the big names were. And you know, there was
a little period where you had some you know, John
Kerry was making a play for it, right and there
(21:14):
have been some others, But now we don't know, and
it's worth noting that they don't know either, and it's
fun to watch the scramble here on the View trying
to push her book, and I'm sure she wants to
sell out of copies because Kama wants to make money.
The View host Sonny Houston, who I am told reliably
by the way Clay from a source very close to
(21:36):
the show, is incredibly hostile to both staff and fellow
panelists on that. Does that surprise you at all? Nope,
but I was just told that recently. I cannot divulge sources,
but she is the story. I am told that she
is a nightmare to deal with for everybody. Everybody on
that show and Seid so all the like we love
(21:58):
each other's stuff is nonsense. If you had to pick
one who is impossible, it's her, I guess by far.
I don't even think there would be a close second. Look.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I think that Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behart often say
and make moronic arguments, but they are to be fair
comedians and background. Sonny is arrogant and dumb, which is
a bad combination because she has no idea.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
What she's talking about. This is one of the things
like Notre Dame Yeah, there's like a bitterness to her
too all the time. Notre Dame Law School should ask
for the JV back. She is awful and she seems awful.
So that does not surprise me at all. So you
will recall little throwback here, little throwback Tuesday to October
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eighth of twenty twenty four, so coming up on almost
exactly a year ago. And that's also the other part
of this, right, it was a year ago that they
were telling us Kamala is great. Vote for Kamala. You
gotta vote for Kamala. We could tell they're like, do
you really want to for Kamala?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Do you really want to? Not really? But here was
about a year ago Kamala when asked on the View
by Sonny Austin if she would do anything differently, and
this was mannafique perfection play it.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
If anything, would you have done something differently than President
Biden during the past four years? There is not a
thing that comes to mind in terms of and I've
been a part of most of the decisions that have had.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Impact Clay Clay. That was that was a moment where
I was feeling so good about the prediction that he
was going to do even better against against Kamla that
Trump was than he did against Hillary. She did you
want she was react. Let's repack to that again.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
I mean Kamala has had and even back then, had
months to prepare for every possible question that could be answered,
could be asked.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
This is not a very difficult proposition. You and I.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
You're going to have your book coming out in in January.
I'll have my book coming out in November. We will
be asked hundreds of questions as part of book promotion,
and we will have had no preparation. We'll have no whiteboarding,
we'll have no team that sits around and just sketches
out what our answers to questions should be, because we're
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not morons. This was an inevitable and totally expected question
that she bungled, and then she's talking about it now,
she's promoting. She went back on for the first time,
and I don't even know what the conversation was, but
we've got audio of Sunny houstin following thirty four play it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
I asked you if there was anything you would have
done differently than President Biden during the past four years,
and you said, quote, there is not a thing that
comes to mind end quote. You're right, you had no idea.
You just pull the pin on a hand grenade. In
the moment, I knew the Trump campaign weaponized your answer
(24:57):
against you my question, and some including James Carvill and
Jake Tapper point to that answer as a turning point
in your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Do you think that moment tipped the election? No? Good,
because Sonny doesn't want to take the blame.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Okay, can I can I point something out, Clay, just
in the lack of logic that even Sonny hostin in
that one little moment shows us she knows that it's
a horrible answer herself. She said that she knew right away.
Oh my god, Kamala's answer is absolutely atrocious. But then
she goes to and Republicans weaponized weaponized, meaning like they
(25:37):
what they took it out of context. They were on fair. No,
if you knew it was a moronic answer, Sonny, everybody
knew it was.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
A moronic answer. They didn't weaponize her answer, they just
used her answer. Yes, she weaponized the answer by being
a moron. But I so I jotted down on my
little yellow notepad, weaponized your answer, which you just hit
second part there that I also jotted down. Everybody laughed
(26:03):
because they know that Sonny Hostin is not there to
actually do journalism. She's there to burnish Kamala Harris's credentials.
Play that cut again because the weaponized answer is interesting.
But the joke that everybody laughs at because it's true
is Sonny Hostin didn't want to do anything that might
(26:24):
in any way harm Kamala Harris's candidacy, and all of
the audience understands it too. Play that cut one more
time because I think it just goes to the failure
of the view of all things to actually have a
wide variety of views is one of the issues that
I think ABC News is dealing with in general. Let's
(26:47):
play that one more time.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
I asked you if there was anything you would have
done differently than President Biden during the past four years,
and you said, quote, there is not a thing that
comes to mind.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
End quote. You're right, you had no idea. You just
pull the pin on a hand grenade.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
In the moment, I knew the Trump campaign weaponized your
answer against you my question, and some including James Carville
and Jake Tapper, point to that answer as a turning
point in your candidacy.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Do you think that moment tiped the election?
Speaker 4 (27:22):
No good because Sonny doesn't want to take the blend.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I don't think it. Yeah, I don't think it tipped
the election. I just think it was solidifying. I think Clay,
if anything, that was a straw that broke the camel's
back situation. I don't think that it was. It's not
like everybody thought Kamala was great and then she said
that and they said, whoa where did that come from?
It was, oh my god, she's as dumb and unprepared
as we thought she was this whole time. And even
(27:51):
people who maybe were open to I'll vote either way
had to see that and say this is preposterous.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I also think you're going to be the expert on
this because you have bought and downloaded the newest Kamala book.
You know how you when you finished your book, and
certainly when I finished my book, at some point, you've
gone over it enough times that it's hard to see
it with a fresh eye because you poured over it
so much. I think one of the most challenging aspects
(28:19):
I would bet of making a movie, certainly, I know
writing a book is eventually seeing it as a fresh reader,
will I think that is where instincts politically matter. And
what I have read already of the reviews of Kamala's
book is that I think she didn't understand how much
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distaste there was for Joe Biden, and she didn't think
she had given a bad answer to that question. And
her advisors might not have realized it was a bad
answer either, because they're so close to the Biden administration
that they've lost perspective on how it looks to the
larger voting public, and they thought she needed to ally
(29:01):
herself with Biden because he was popular enough that she
couldn't show any distinction between herself and him.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
She she should have. If she were a skilled politician,
she would have known that the single biggest vulnerability that
Democrats had in this last election was the ten million
people who poured into the country via illegal and fraudulent means. Uh.
And if she had said, you know, we, if she
was a skilled politician, she would have said something, in
(29:30):
my opinion, play like, you know, Joe Biden, we had
so many victories and and you know there's I don't
want to forget about those, but I would say that
given the realities of the complexities of our immigration system.
We needed to have that reform done earlier to make
sure that only you know, the the legitimate asylum seekers
(29:52):
and the best and the brightest blah blah blah. And
that's what we'll do in my next term, is to
figure out how we're only getting how we are getting
not only getting you know, great immigrants from all over
the world. You know, by the way, this audience is
not gonna like that answer, but that's an answer that
could have worked. That's the point. Instead, you just said nonsense.
I don't even think the answer is that hard. If
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you are a decent politician, I think the answer to
that question is Joe Biden did a lot of things.
We took over an economy and disaster because of the
awful leadership. I'm answering it as if I were Kamala
the awful leadership of Donald Trump, who failed to lead
us well during COVID.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
We took over a dumpster fire. First thing we had
to do was put the fire out. I understand that
people feel like they haven't seen the results of the
work we've done yet. That's what I'm here to do.
We've put the fire out we're put America back on
its feet, and we are working towards getting things infinitely better.
So there are a lot of things that I think
(30:50):
we both could have done better. I think we did
a much better job than Trump, and I know we're
going to do a much better job in the next
four years. Look, that's me off the cuff answering that question,
and that's a great non answer. That's a great non
answer answer. But that's all she had to do, right,
is say something like we've done great things. We're gonna
do more great things. You don't say I can't think
of anything, because that makes you seem like an empty vessel.
(31:12):
Not only that, it actually makes you endorse every decision
that has been made, as opposed to saying again, I
would pivot and attack Trump in that answer.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
He's so bad.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
We took over a dumpster fire. The first thing you
have to do is put out the fire, and it
takes a while for the results of the work we're doing.
I'm a younger version of Joe Biden. I'm gonna do
a better job connecting with the American public going forward.
But I think we put the country on great footing.
Any answer like that, it vanishes, nobody pays attention to it.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Look, I'll say this and people will get mad at me,
But that's okay because you all know that it's true.
Whatever you may think of Sarah Palin. The answer with
Katie Kuric was a similar It was when someone asks
you what do you read? You say something, you say something,
You don't say things like I read things basically, you know,
or what do you mean by that? Right now? You
(32:05):
could say that's unfair, No one is. You know, I've
a crash Katie Kirk more than probably anybody else on
the right these days. I mean, I still think that
the fact that she got as far as she did
in her career, she's just a ruthless mediocrity. But I'm
just saying that was a bad answer from Sarah Pellin.
So you can't do that. You can't have the non
answer to the question. That's an obvious question you should
be ready for because even passers by in politics pick
(32:28):
up on that and go, oh, that wasn't good.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
And your job is to do two things as president,
make decisions and communicate. That's really it. Now, there are
complexities associated with it. If you can't answer basic questions,
your job is a communicator. Let's leave aside the fact
that I think Kamalo would have been an awful decision
maker too, But if you can't even communicate answers to
(32:52):
basic questions, then you're in real trouble. Trump is an
elite communicator. I think he's making really good decisions too.
But those are the two jobs of the president, and
if you can't do both at a high level, you're
going to fail. And Biden was awful at everything. He
would have done better going full Costanza buck and just
taking the opposite of every choice he made. The country
(33:13):
would have been better off.
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Show Comala Tour Underway YouTube. Admitting that it's censored people
who had conservative thoughts. We'll talk about that as well
as additional new that may be coming out about the
Jimmy Kimmel situation. I did want to say it is
(35:09):
very interesting if you look at the Kamala angle. This
is me kind of teasing where we're going buck Rachel
Maddow actually kind of went after her because Rachel Maddow
is a lesbian over Kamala Harris saying she couldn't pick
Pete may or Pete because he is gay, and I
want to play that answer, but I also think it
(35:29):
goes to the tension inherent in the Democrat Party going forward.
They've got a lot of pro and con identity groups
now that they're trying to keep together, whether it is
the gay and lesbian alliance, also with the trans whether
it is black voters being responsive to gay politicians, and
(35:53):
also the Israel angle, because I think that really went
into how Kamala Harris ended up with Tim Way Walls,
which was she kind of got herself into a corner
because everybody else had an interest group that was allied
against them, and then you get this imbecile Tim Walls,
(36:13):
who I would love if he lost the governor's race.
I don't think he will, unfortunately, because I think Minnesota's
got too many crazy people. But it is I think
an intriguing examination into how her VP selection went down
that basically she had to eliminate a lot of people
and he was the last guy left standing.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yes, yes, And like Kamala realizes, this is the moment
to change the narrative because it's a very bad narrative
for her after that election. I don't think it's going
so well for her. And the Rachel Maddow appearance play,
I don't think it's helping. We're gonna talk about it
in the moment.
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