October 3, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show delivers a powerful deep dive into breaking news and cultural flashpoints shaping America. The hour opens with an exclusive interview with journalist Nick Sorter, who recounts his shocking arrest in Portland during violent Antifa-led protests outside an ICE facility. Sorter describes being assaulted while documenting the chaos, saving a burning American flag, and then being charged with disorderly conduct despite Antifa’s ongoing lawlessness. He reveals that Attorney General Pam Bondi personally called him, announcing a Department of Justice civil rights investigation into the Portland Police Bureau. Clay and Nick expose how Portland’s leadership and police culture have allowed five years of unchecked riots, fueling public demand for federal intervention and National Guard deployment.
The conversation escalates as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addresses Sorter’s arrest live from the podium, condemning Portland’s failure to protect journalists and pledging to review federal aid to states that “allow anarchy.” Clay underscores how this crisis reflects a broader collapse of law and order in Democrat-run cities, warning that Portland’s inability to restore safety has even cost it opportunities like a Major League Baseball franchise—an example of how urban decay impacts economic growth and corporate investment.
Hour 2 then pivots to Michigan politics with State Senator Eric Nesbitt, a Hillsdale College graduate and GOP candidate for governor. Nesbitt outlines why Michigan is a critical battleground for 2026 and 2028, citing Trump’s recent victory and growing Republican momentum. He blasts Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s COVID lockdowns, sharing a deeply personal story of being barred from comforting his wife during a miscarriage due to pandemic restrictions. Nesbitt vows to reverse Whitmer’s policies, restore parental rights, and fight progressive agendas like men competing in women’s sports and pronoun enforcement in schools. He frames Michigan as the “front line” in the battle to protect families, small businesses, and traditional values, pledging to make Michigan competitive again for jobs and education.
The hour closes with breaking news: President Trump posts a dramatic video on Truth Social showing U.S. forces destroying a drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela, signaling his aggressive crackdown on cartels. Clay takes listener calls reacting to Portland’s chaos, federal intervention, and cultural politics, emphasizing how Trump’s law-and-order approach resonates nationwide.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh well again, Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are
rolling through the Friday edition of the program. We'll take
a bunch of your calls and continue to react to
everything going on in the world at large. But right
now we head up to the Pacific northwest to Portland, Oregon,
and we are joined by Nick Sorder, who was arrested
(00:21):
last night in the midst of all the chaos outside
the ice facility in Portland, where President Trump has said
we need to send in reinforcements, and where the leaders
of the state of Oregon have claimed there is no
need whatsoever for that to occur. So Nick, I just
want to give you the floor here. I want you
to tell everyone what happened to you. Just walk me
(00:43):
through and walk us through your experiences last night.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me here. And it's
still surreal thinking about this, about how this all went
down last night. You know, I had said a couple
of days ago on X that this city is so
messed up that if I were to defend myself, I
would be arrested while my assailant would get away. And
(01:10):
that's exactly what happened here. I have every right these
people don't understand this. I have every right as a
journalist to be on the sidewalk and record what's going
on in public, no matter how much they wind, scream
and cry about it. I have every right to do so.
And these Antifa thugs, they've been able to get away
(01:31):
with physical violence for so long now that they feel
empowered to harass you, to hit you, to break your equipment,
and sometimes even mace you. The amount of times I
had mace thrown in my face this week has been crazy,
Like I'm surprised I still have visions and nothing has
ever done about any of that. Ever, it's when I
(01:55):
try to defend myself after ten people gang up on
me and throw me in a flower pit, that that's
when the police decide, okay, we're going to actually do
something for once. So all these series that we've had
about how Antifa has pretty much infiltrated the Portland Police Department,
or that Antifa has been by the balls, it's just
(02:16):
it was confirmed true last night. I mean, this goes
to show that the conspiracy theories quote unquote were true.
And you know it's it's not going to intimidate me,
it's not going to stop me. If anything, I'm going
to be more aggressive with it because now we've got
the DOJ involved, Now we've got you know, national headlines
about about this. The six hours in jail was really
(02:39):
worth it for what I think is going to come
out of Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now, okay, let me let me dive in a couple
of things that happened last night. You witnessed them trying
to burn a American flag last night, and you stepped
in to save the flag, and that certainly antagonized them
as well. Correct.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Absolutely, Yeah, that's when they started following me around. I
was talking to to to somebody on the other side
of the something walk. I saw the set the flag
on fire. So I walked over them and grabbed it.
I yanked it out of his handlance and uh and
took the fire. And I actually took the flag. I
still had the feld and because I immediately went and uh,
(03:22):
you know, I gas about ten. I had it for
about ten minutes and then I brought it to my
car and and put it in my far And you know,
I don't feel bad about that. I'm sorry if somebody
got their feelings hurt that I uh put the flames
out of the American flag. I'm not gonna apologize for that,
and I would do it again in the heart beat.
(03:42):
So I knew that I was I was risking, you know,
getting my button by these people by doing that, but
at the time, I just I didn't care because it's
what needed to be done. I'm so sick of watching
these people just dethecrate our flag and crap on our country.
It's es actually when these same people are you know,
(04:03):
they're waiting foreign flags while burning the American flag. I'm
set up with it. I warn't most Americans.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What were you charged with? Have you officially been charged
with anything? I know you were arrested and you were
held for several hours. What charges are you facing?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, so it took them an hour to figure out
what to charge me with. They had me in the
back of the patrol car sitting on the side of
the road while they had because they basically were like, okay, yeah,
we won't we want to take him into custody, but
we don't know what for yet, so we'll figure it
out as we go. So they arrested me, put me
in the back of the car. They started driving around.
They pulled over randomly and and got out of the
(04:40):
car because they could talk to the lieutenant without me
hearing it. And that's when they decided they were going
to charge me with disorderly conduct. And naturally I was
like okay, disorderly conduct, Like okay, what did I do?
Tell me what I did? And they're like, oh, well,
we don't know that information. We just know that you're
being charged with disorderly conduct. So it took until after
(05:02):
I was out of jail to see what the official
narrative was, because the disorderly conduct can mean disorderly conduct
too in Oregon can mean either blocking the road, blocking
a sidewalk, or fighting. And I'm like, okay, well, the
Antifa Paris are doing the first two, you know, constantly
(05:22):
on a rolling basis. They're always blocking. It was always
blocking the sidewalk, and every other minute they're fighting each other.
None of them are ever charged with this crime, just me.
Is that a coincidence? Or was I targeted?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You were called already, I believe by the Attorney General
of the United States, Pam BONDI. What did she tell you?
What was that conversation?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Like? That was a pretty incredible phone call to gain
this morning from Attorney General Bondi on her cell phone
calling me and telling me that she was immediately ordering
ar Meet Dylan, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,
to launch a full investigation into the Portland Police Bureau too,
(06:06):
because like, this isn't a one off situation. This happens
frequently to It's just the difference is this time I
have a platform, right, how many other victims of this
police department are there? I would argue that half of
Portland are victims of this police department from their lack
of action, from their support for Antifa. And so that
(06:27):
was really good. If you know anything about part meat Dylan,
I'm telling you that that part excited you the most.
Putting har Meat Dylan on this Portland isn't ready for
what's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm just saying, why do you think this has been
allowed to occur for so long? Because Portland is a
great city, don't. I don't know where your home base is,
but it is a jewel of America if you just
consider natural beauty. It had been in long, had been
a thriving place, but it was safe, right Like it
(06:56):
might be left leaning, but it wasn't a violent place.
There were not very many murders, the city was safe.
Now that downtown is a mess, and I know we've
got a ton of people listening to us right now
on eleven ninety k e X in the Portland area.
This all kind of went to hell starting with the
George Floyd protests and it has continued for for a
(07:19):
long time. Left uh, left wing politicians will say antifa
is not a thing. What would you say to those people?
What would you say to anyone out there who's saying, oh, Antifa,
that's not really anything to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well that's that's say Joe Biden era talking point, right,
because you know they they don't want to they at
the end of the day, these these far left Democrats
are really I mean hell, the leaders of the Democrat
Party at this point, Johan Omar and Jasmine Crockett and AOC,
they're never going to condemn these people, right, They actually
(07:53):
support the message that they're doing. So the saying that
antifa is just an idea, I mean, come down here
and talk to any of them on the street. It's
an organized group. They have subgroups too, like the one
here is Rose City Antifa. It's an organized group, an
organized effort. So I mean, it's just blatantly false to
(08:15):
say that it's just an idea and not an organization.
I don't even know, but I mean, that's that's pretty
much the modern day Democrat Party at this point. You
just blatantly lie to your face and let me ask
you this that you don't think anything else of it, And.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, no, I think that's totally true. We're talking to
Nick Sorder, who has done incredible sort of on the
ground journalism surrounding these protests in Portland. What do you
think of the police force in Portland? Because I'm gonna
be honest with you. I meet officers all over the
country and they say, hey, you're you know, we listen
(08:50):
to the show. We agree with you on everything. When
you got arrested, did anybody say, hey, man, I agree
with you. I gotta stay undercover a little bit. Do
you think the Portland police as a group have been
basically taken over by left wing activism and that's why
they're not arresting or do you think the police force
recognizes how much a BS this is, but they're being
(09:14):
led from above and not allowed to actually make the
community safe. What's going on in your mind with the
culture of the Portland Police as it pertains to these protests.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm gonna be totally honest with you and I'm not
gonna have any disrespect for the officers that arrested me yesterday.
But they had a very tough time figuring out how
to write a police report. It's like they just never
do it anymore. And that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
They are.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I was. When I was there for that six hours,
three people came into the jail. The jail houses it's
the only one in Portland and all of Portland, and
three people came in and a major American city overnight.
They're not arresting anybody. They're not arresting anybody. And in
there was an officer that from a neighboring jurisdiction that
(10:04):
was there with me yesterday. He was he had left
right before this entire thing went down, that he was
providing a security for me, and he went up to
some of the officers there in Portland and said, you
guys have no shame. You should resign in disgrace. You
should not be following these bs orders. Orders that you
know are BSU because they're told to stand down constantly.
(10:27):
You have these foe unquote liaison officers that stand there.
Bill Malluchin posted a video would be being assaulted by
these anti foot thugs the other day and you can
see in the background these officers just standing there, watching
doing nothing. Because what do you think following orders?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What do you think would happen?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Get too from a patriot and just follow orders like
that and watch, you know, people get beaten the street
like I'm sorry, I'm not going to follow that order.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
If you have President Trump, the White House you mentioned
you talked with Pam BONDI, what should they do to
take control of Portland streets because it sounds like the
Governor's not going to allow it. It sounds like the
Mayor's not going to allow it. But I know there's
a lot of people out there that are listening to
us right now in Portland that are just saying, much
(11:12):
like with what happened with Seattle, Hey, we've got to
have some sanity come in. What should the White House do?
What should the National Guard do? Nobody's getting arrested? What
should happen?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Caroline Levitt is talking about it right now. Actually, she
is going off on on Portland about how they're being
ravaged that she's speaking about the arrest and such. Honestly,
I think that the if you talk to residents here,
this is what they want to see. They actually support
(11:43):
the idea of the federal government coming in and taking
more control here. They're going to say it publicly because
they'll be you know, harassed and assaulted for it. But okay, well, sorry,
I'm little to describe the by Caroline.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Kind of a bit kind of a big deal to
have the White House or talking about your arrest while
you're being interviewed on the biggest radio show in the country.
So we certainly understand that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, I don't mean to pause there, but but
but yeah, but I live at Washington, d C. Right
where they act like all these people are not wanting
or not liking the federal intervention that's happened there, and
that's just not true. Everyday residents love it. They're excited
by it, they feel safe, they can walk around again.
(12:29):
The people of Portland want the same thing. They just
can't saint publically or else they'll be beating the street too.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nick while we're talking to you, Mary, Margaret Olihan, I'm
sure you're talking about this, But for there seeing this
for yourself because I can hear Caroline the background. Mary
Margaret Olihan at the Daily Wire says, Caroline Levitt says
Nick Sorder's arrest should be very should is unacceptable and
everyone should be concerned that you were arrested rather than
(12:54):
the violent rioters in Portland. And so we will let
you con and you to watch that just we'll be
in touch. Are you going to be out in the
streets again in Portland? What's you're planning now? And do
you feel like you're going to be safe?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh? Yeah, I've got the guy. I've got a lot
of patriots coming today, so it'll be it'll it'll be good,
It'll be safe. Uh, it's there's a lot of people
flying in just to support me today.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So well, we appreciate everything you're doing. We know it's
a crazy time. We appreciate you making the time to
come on with us. Stay safe, and thank you to
everybody out there that can be and will be patriots.
If people are listening in Portland and they want to
support you, what should they do? What could you tell them.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
To do on the street? Just uh, just support me
on X That's that's that's what that's That's what we
need the most is just uh uh support independent journalists,
not even just me, just people that are there are
a lot of well if you know Katie Davis corn
with the the post millennial that just got assaulted. I'm
gonna uh a freaking hype on the streets to Portland
(13:54):
the other day, and of course nothing is done about it.
It posted do anything, but like support independent journalist. That's
what needs to happen, because we're the ones that are
actually embedded, boots on the ground, you know, risking our
own safety and even freedom doing this stuff. And you know,
the outpating and support has been incredible from so many
people from around the world. And I appreciate you giving
(14:14):
me the platform today.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Thank you for coming on with us. And stay safe.
That is nick sorder. Encourage you guys. You can go
follow and we'll share some of his videos and some
of the stories. But again, he was arrested last night
at the Antifa attack event, basically the protest that Antifa
is putting on surrounding Ice and being talked about right
now in the White House as President Trump prepares, I
(14:38):
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Speaker 1 (16:10):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. While we were just talking with Nick Sorder
about his arrest, the White House was talking about Nick
Sorder's arrest. Here's our friend Caroline Levitt at the White
House podium discussing that just moments ago, Cut thirty one.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Just last night we saw an extremely troubling incident where
conservative journalist Nick Sorder was captured on video being taken
into custody by the Portland police after he was ambushed
by Antifa and was defending himself from these assaults. But
instead of arresting these violent mob members nights after nights
after night who are ravaging this community, the police arrested
(16:51):
a journalist who was there trying to document the chaos.
And everyone in this room should be extremely concerned about that.
The Department of Justice spoke with that journalist this morning
and they be launching a full investigation into his arrest.
This incident is part of a troubling trend in Portland
where left wing mobs believe they get to decide who
can visit and live in their city. It is not
their city, it is the American people city. And President
(17:13):
Trump is going to restore that. I just spoke with
the President about this and he has directed his team
here at the White House to begin reviewing aid that
can potentially be cut in Portland. We will not fund
states that allow anarchy.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, so Portland is in the FO stage of FAFO
and we will see what ends up happening. We want
Nick to stay safe. And so I know many of
you in the Portland area and beyond, but certainly in Portland,
appreciate the reporting that he's doing. But we got to
arrest all these all these kooks, all these crazy people.
(17:48):
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Show joined now by Eric Nesbitt. He is a state
senator in Michigan running for the governor's office. Up there,
we talked about how Michigan is probably the most important state.
I honestly mean this, if you look at twenty twenty
(19:14):
six and twenty twenty eight and the amount of serious
offices that are up for grabs as there will be
no incumbent governors. The awful Gretchen Whitmer will hop on
her broomstick and right off into the night sky. Eric
nesbit with us. Now, what do you see on the ground.
We talked about this yesterday as well. What do you
(19:35):
see on the ground in Michigan? And are you optimistic
that Michigan can become much more of a red state
in the years ahead?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Hey, Clay, thanks for having me on, And I'll tell
you one thing. Michigan Republicans are excited after last year
President Trump winning the state again and drawing out a
record setting number of people as we continue to grow
the party here Michigan because we've seen what it means
under Governor Whitmer and the Democrats here in Michigan that
(20:06):
it's tougher to make it in Michigan. It's tougher to
do business in Michigan. Three out of four fourth graders
can't read at grade level, so it's tougher for our
kids to learn in Michigan and our job creators. It's
tough for them. With the highest energy cost highest insurance
costs in the Midwest, it's just tougher to expand and invest.
And with Governor Whitmer term limited out, with Gary Peters
(20:28):
leaving and fleeing the US Senate, with three competitive congressional seats,
with the state House. With President Trump's leadership, last year,
we won back the state House in Michigan and we
ended a Democrat trifecta. I feel positive on the ground
and motivated as we continue to grow our campaign and
(20:49):
activate folks on the ground to turn out. I was
in Menominee last Saturday, which is a small community I
think about twenty thousand people. Actually, Tudor Diiction was up
there as one of the speakers. Her and I were
the keynote speakers there and there was a sold out
crowd over one hundred and thirty people in this small county,
and they already had sixty tickets for Lincoln Day sold
(21:10):
for next years. There's a lot of energy that's around there,
and we're continuing to see that around the state.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Talking to Eric Nesbitt, I'm curious when you went to Hillsdale,
and we love Hillsdale College here. Doctor Larry arn has
built a powerhouse. What was that experience like for you?
And I know you have young kids, as do I.
You've got three. As you start to look forward in
the larger educational environment, how impactful do you think Hillsdale
(21:39):
is becoming not only in the state of Michigan where
you are, and obviously as your alma mater, has a
lot of connection to it, but it's a cultural force
across the nation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now, Yeah, doctor harn has been a great mentor at
me over the years. He's continues to show leadership and
light and darkness. You know where there's a lot of
darkness and higher education and you saw that with Charlie
Kirk going into college campuses. He was at Michigan State
University this spring. I have a plenty of staff that
(22:08):
used to work for Turning Point or bounteered on campuses.
But you see how the left wing tries to shut
down debate and dissent and try to indoctrinate our kids
in public universities and private colleges. And God blessed Charlie
for taking it on, and they tried to cancel them
and silence them. An Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, an
(22:30):
assassin's bullet took them out. But unlike a lot of
these schools, Hillsdale was one that Charlie Kirk actually believed in,
and he knew that they taught the basics foundations of
American government, of why our rights actually come from a creator,
(22:51):
our God, not from government, where Democrats and the left
wing progressives believe our rights come from government. And we
saw that during the COVID lockdown. So it was disgusting
and wrong the way Governor Whitmer shut down our schools,
shut down our businesses. And this is part of the
reason why I'm running. My wife and I we went
(23:13):
to the OB's office. We're expecting our second kid, and
for me, it began with COVID. My wife was pregnant
in twenty twenty and I wasn't even allowed to attend
a OB's appointment with her. And I'll never forget the
text message she sent when we had when we found
out we had a miscarriage, as I sat in the
parking lot when she informed me that she had a miscarriage.
(23:35):
She was experienced the worst thing a parent can go through,
losing a child, and the Democrats said I could not
be there and comfort her as her husband as the father.
And I'll never forgive Gretchen and Whitmer for that she
did that to our family. We cannot let that happen
ever again, never again. And that's why I'm fighting, and
that's why we need to understand. It's not just about COVID.
(23:58):
People can't make it in me Michigan anymore, and our
businesses it's tougher for them. They cannot make it in Michigan.
Our farmers cannot make it in Michigan, our families cannot
make it a Michigan and the next generation. Unfortunately, our
largest export used to be cars, and now it's our
young people that needs to stop.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're talking to Eric Nasabit, running for governor in Michigan.
That's an awful story about your wife and what she
had to discover about the baby while she was by herself. Unfortunately,
there's tons of people out there who weren't able, who
had similar emotionally heartrending experiences, weren't able to say goodbye
to mom or dad, or grandma or grandpa, or people
of their families and friends because they were restricted from
(24:41):
being able to enter under these broken COVID policies. Gretchen
Whitmer actually thinks she did a good job with COVID,
and she may well run for President of the United
States based partly on what she considers to be her
great leadership of Michigan. What happens next with her and
how does Michigan as the front lines of a fifty
to fifty country, helped to determine not only the future
(25:03):
of Gretchen Whitner, but the nation as well.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well. You got to have strong leadership, just the way
Florida was a fifty to fifty state ten years ago
before President Trump came on the scene. He's effectively worked
it to make it a lot more Republican, and you're
seeing that in Michigan. I think we're becoming more and
more Republican because of President Trump's leadership and working to
bring out working class voters. We're the party of small
(25:28):
business owners, farmers, workers, seniors vote, you know, folks that
actually trust parents. And I believe this is our last
chance to save the state of Michigan. That's why I'm
running for governor is because I want everyone to be
able to make it in Michigan. And if we want
people to be able to make it in Michigan, we
got to turn the chapter from the Biden Whitmer administration
(25:51):
to the Trump Nesbent administration. We have to make Michigan
work for working families, for our seniors, for our small
business owners, and our farmers. And this is what we're
building up and we're getting some great responses across the state.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Would you have ever believe you have two daughters, Would
you ever believe that it would become Democrat Party orthodoxy,
including in the state of Michigan where there have been
many controversies relating to this about men competing in women's
sports being something that needs to be protected by the
state of Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
And I had two younger daughters, a six year old
and a six month old. That's just blessed on both
of them. And I couldn't imagine ten years ago that
anybody would be defending having a man shower in a
gym with my daughter, or having them play on girls' sports,
or having them learn all the different pronouns instead of
(26:46):
twenty six pronouns being taught in schools. When you get
back to the twenty six letters of the alphabet I had.
I was out in Wayne County a few weeks ago
at a fundraiser mind and a parent came up to
me and said that they have a twelve year old
son going to a public school sixth grade and he
(27:07):
didn't use the they them pronoun for another boy, he
was sent to the principal's office. This is not the
America you and I grew up and and God blessed
that twelve year old kid. And when he went down
to the principal's office, he says, well, with President Trump's orders,
I thought we could actually tell what people are by
(27:28):
the secs that they were born as.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I mean, Wayne County is Detroit for people who don't know.
And yeah, congrats to that twelve year old boy for
actually recognizing biological reality, something that virtually every Democrat elected
official nationwide refuses to do so. Eric Nasbit, how can
people find your website? Where should they go if they
want to know more about the campaign?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, it's a nusbent for governor. Dot com is the
campaign address. I'm on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram all
that others. But it's Eric with an A. Middle of
five kids all started with a's, and by the time
mom got to me, it was either going to be
Eric or Erica with an A, and boy, I'm glad
you with Eric, I would have grown up a little tougher.
I it was Erica, but yeah, Eric Nesbit and just
(28:17):
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up the status quar and Lansing. Turn the chapter from
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an ally at President Trump into that that Governor's office
and lead Michigan. Is President Trump's working to make things
in the USA. We need to make sure that it's
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Speaker 1 (28:39):
Awesome. I appreciate the time and have a great weekend,
and good luck with that six month old. I hope
you sleep and tell your wife that we've got her
back here as a community. That's a tough story you
had to go through in twenty twenty, but I'm glad
you have a new baby girl.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Hey, Clay, thank you so much and God bless you.
Thanks for covering the issues that matter and bringing it
to the people. And unfortunately she started sleeping right after
Mother's Day and actually Mother's Day was the first full
night to the night.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That was a big gift, no doubt. It's one of
the best days out there. We appreciate you that's Eric Nesbit.
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Welcome back in Clay. Travis buck Sexton show a couple
of breaking news stories we have just at least it's
just been released that we did it. Trump posted a
video on truth Social just a little bit ago showing
us blowing up another drug boat off the coast of Venezuela,
four different smugglers on it. This has this is at
(31:07):
least the fourth different boat that has been blown up.
That is carrying drugs. President Trump posting that let's see,
I want to make sure that I get it right,
that this boat was loaded with enough drugs to kill
twenty five to fifty thousand people stopped early this morning
off the coast of Venezuela from entering American territory. So
(31:32):
if you wondered, hey, when Trump said I'm going after
the cartels, did he mean that he was really going
to go after the cartels? I would imagine that every
one of these videos is ricocheting around and the text
message threads of anyone that is engaged in drug smuggling
on boats, because instead of knowing that you might risk
being arrested and prosecuted, now you know every time you
(31:57):
hop on a boat and potentially try to make that
drug run, that at any moment you may get blown up,
which I would imagine is something that changes the calculus
a bit. Let's go some of your talkbacks. Podcast listener
Dan from Eastern Oregon. EE, he's got thoughts on what
we talked about earlier in the hour, the situation going
on in Portland.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
This is Dan from Oregon. I'm from the central eastern
part of Oregon where Trump lover's out here and it's
the morons over on the on the coast in Portland
and that area saw the liberal idiots and cotex moron
the governor, and I say, Trump, bring it on, bring
(32:39):
the National Guard in here and clean this place up.
It's been a long time needed.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Thank you, no doubt. I think there are a lot
of people in Oregon, rational, reasonable people that look at
what's going on and say they've effectively destroyed Portland. You wonder,
by the way, this is not a huge thing, but
I think Portland would have gotten a Major League Baseball franchise,
for instance, because I don't know how many of you
(33:05):
are paying attention to this, but in the next few years,
Major League Baseball is going to expand, and there is
talk that they're going to put one in the West
and one in the East. Now, maybe that ends up changing.
I think my hometown of Nashville is going to get
a Major League Baseball franchise. Be super cool. Again, that's
several years into the future. Portland may well have been
the choice. I was talking to some people from Major
(33:28):
League Baseball and they said the way the city downtown
has fallen apart has taken Portland out of significant running
to get a major League baseball franchise. Now you may say, well, okay, well,
who cares that much about a Major League baseball franchise.
To me, it's emblematic of any organization that decides, hey,
where should we put our new plant, Where should we
(33:50):
put our new corporate headquarters. Blue states are losing out
over their inability to constrain violence, and it's become a major,
major issue, and as a result, I think a city
like Salt Lake may end up getting a baseball team.
I'm not saying salt Lake City's perfect, but there aren't
people rioting every night downtown such that you feel unsafe
(34:14):
walking around in the city of salt Lake. Now Vegas
got a team. Vegas is not perfect, but they don't
stand for constant riots in the streets. I think that
there is a legitimate argument that the last five years
of constant riots in Portland that has diminished and demean
the safety and livelihood of people who live in the
(34:35):
downtown Portland area has directly cost them a major League
baseball franchise. I don't know anybody else is going to
tell you that let's have some fun Sondra in New
Jersey and then we got some cuts potentially from Caroline
Levitt Sondra.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
What you got for us, Hi, Clay, thank you for
taking my call. I had two thoughts. One with ma'am
Donnie with the flowers for the bachelor thing. To me,
he's not original at all. To me, he copied Donald Trump.
Donald Trump went to McDonald's, Donald Trump went on that
big truck, So to me, that was a copycat. I feel,
(35:15):
what do you think of that, that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
He's a well, look, I don't know that it's a copykite,
a copycat, but I think what you hit on is important.
When Trump went to McDonald's, When Trump put on the
garbage outfit and drove around in the garbage truck in
the final days of the campaign, Trump gets how to
cut through the noise and take advantage of larger cultural
issues that connect with people that aren't necessarily Hey, how
(35:38):
should we analyze the Bill of Rights in the modern era?
That stuff matters, but punching through the noise matters more. Sorry,
So I think that's unfortunately where mom Donnie is really good.
His policies are awful, but he's going to people where
they are okay.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
And the other thode I had was you know people, okay,
I want you to give you in and out. For instance,
like you have a state and they're troubled and they
need help, and the leaders don't want to admit it.
To state, they look like they're not doing right by
the state. But sometimes you need help and it's not
a bad thing. Just like a person who has a
hoarding problem in an apartment, no matter how hard they try,
(36:18):
they can't get rid of the stuff. They need help.
And sometimes it doesn't mean the person is bad. It
means they need help. And the same thing with a
state that has a problem. Don't if you need help.
To me, it doesn't mean anything bad. It just means
you need help.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't disagree. And this goes to my point. Think
about how broken Democrat ideas are. They're arguing that crime
isn't that bad and so far so, therefore it doesn't
need to be lower. They're arguing against Trump putting violent
criminals in prison. They're arguing against Trump going to Memphis, Washington,
d C. Portland cities like Chicago, Baltimore that need all
(36:55):
the help they can get. Seems to me like he's
making the right call.
Oh well again, Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We are
rolling through the Friday edition of the program. We'll take
a bunch of your calls and continue to react to
everything going on in the world at large. But right
now we head up to the Pacific northwest to Portland, Oregon,
and we are joined by Nick Sorder, who was arrested
(00:21):
last night in the midst of all the chaos outside
the ice facility in Portland, where President Trump has said
we need to send in reinforcements, and where the leaders
of the state of Oregon have claimed there is no
need whatsoever for that to occur. So Nick, I just
want to give you the floor here. I want you
to tell everyone what happened to you. Just walk me
(00:43):
through and walk us through your experiences last night.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me here. And it's
still surreal thinking about this, about how this all went
down last night. You know, I had said a couple
of days ago on X that this city is so
messed up that if I were to defend myself, I
would be arrested while my assailant would get away. And
(01:10):
that's exactly what happened here. I have every right these
people don't understand this. I have every right as a
journalist to be on the sidewalk and record what's going
on in public, no matter how much they wind, scream
and cry about it. I have every right to do so.
And these Antifa thugs, they've been able to get away
(01:31):
with physical violence for so long now that they feel
empowered to harass you, to hit you, to break your equipment,
and sometimes even mace you. The amount of times I
had mace thrown in my face this week has been crazy,
Like I'm surprised I still have visions and nothing has
ever done about any of that. Ever, it's when I
(01:55):
try to defend myself after ten people gang up on
me and throw me in a flower pit, that that's
when the police decide, okay, we're going to actually do
something for once. So all these series that we've had
about how Antifa has pretty much infiltrated the Portland Police Department,
or that Antifa has been by the balls, it's just
(02:16):
it was confirmed true last night. I mean, this goes
to show that the conspiracy theories quote unquote were true.
And you know it's it's not going to intimidate me,
it's not going to stop me. If anything, I'm going
to be more aggressive with it because now we've got
the DOJ involved, Now we've got you know, national headlines
about about this. The six hours in jail was really
(02:39):
worth it for what I think is going to come
out of Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Now, okay, let me let me dive in a couple
of things that happened last night. You witnessed them trying
to burn a American flag last night, and you stepped
in to save the flag, and that certainly antagonized them
as well. Correct.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Absolutely, Yeah, that's when they started following me around. I
was talking to to to somebody on the other side
of the something walk. I saw the set the flag
on fire. So I walked over them and grabbed it.
I yanked it out of his handlance and uh and
took the fire. And I actually took the flag. I
still had the feld and because I immediately went and uh,
(03:22):
you know, I gas about ten. I had it for
about ten minutes and then I brought it to my
car and and put it in my far And you know,
I don't feel bad about that. I'm sorry if somebody
got their feelings hurt that I uh put the flames
out of the American flag. I'm not gonna apologize for that,
and I would do it again in the heart beat.
(03:42):
So I knew that I was I was risking, you know,
getting my button by these people by doing that, but
at the time, I just I didn't care because it's
what needed to be done. I'm so sick of watching
these people just dethecrate our flag and crap on our country.
It's es actually when these same people are you know,
(04:03):
they're waiting foreign flags while burning the American flag. I'm
set up with it. I warn't most Americans.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What were you charged with? Have you officially been charged
with anything? I know you were arrested and you were
held for several hours. What charges are you facing?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah, so it took them an hour to figure out
what to charge me with. They had me in the
back of the patrol car sitting on the side of
the road while they had because they basically were like, okay, yeah,
we won't we want to take him into custody, but
we don't know what for yet, so we'll figure it
out as we go. So they arrested me, put me
in the back of the car. They started driving around.
They pulled over randomly and and got out of the
(04:40):
car because they could talk to the lieutenant without me
hearing it. And that's when they decided they were going
to charge me with disorderly conduct. And naturally I was
like okay, disorderly conduct, Like okay, what did I do?
Tell me what I did? And they're like, oh, well,
we don't know that information. We just know that you're
being charged with disorderly conduct. So it took until after
(05:02):
I was out of jail to see what the official
narrative was, because the disorderly conduct can mean disorderly conduct
too in Oregon can mean either blocking the road, blocking
a sidewalk, or fighting. And I'm like, okay, well, the
Antifa Paris are doing the first two, you know, constantly
(05:22):
on a rolling basis. They're always blocking. It was always
blocking the sidewalk, and every other minute they're fighting each other.
None of them are ever charged with this crime, just me.
Is that a coincidence? Or was I targeted?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
You were called already, I believe by the Attorney General
of the United States, Pam BONDI. What did she tell you?
What was that conversation?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Like? That was a pretty incredible phone call to gain
this morning from Attorney General Bondi on her cell phone
calling me and telling me that she was immediately ordering
ar Meet Dylan, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights,
to launch a full investigation into the Portland Police Bureau too,
(06:06):
because like, this isn't a one off situation. This happens
frequently to It's just the difference is this time I
have a platform, right, how many other victims of this
police department are there? I would argue that half of
Portland are victims of this police department from their lack
of action, from their support for Antifa. And so that
(06:27):
was really good. If you know anything about part meat Dylan,
I'm telling you that that part excited you the most.
Putting har Meat Dylan on this Portland isn't ready for
what's coming.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I'm just saying, why do you think this has been
allowed to occur for so long? Because Portland is a
great city, don't. I don't know where your home base is,
but it is a jewel of America if you just
consider natural beauty. It had been in long, had been
a thriving place, but it was safe, right Like it
(06:56):
might be left leaning, but it wasn't a violent place.
There were not very many murders, the city was safe.
Now that downtown is a mess, and I know we've
got a ton of people listening to us right now
on eleven ninety k e X in the Portland area.
This all kind of went to hell starting with the
George Floyd protests and it has continued for for a
(07:19):
long time. Left uh, left wing politicians will say antifa
is not a thing. What would you say to those people?
What would you say to anyone out there who's saying, oh, Antifa,
that's not really anything to be concerned about.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well that's that's say Joe Biden era talking point, right,
because you know they they don't want to they at
the end of the day, these these far left Democrats
are really I mean hell, the leaders of the Democrat
Party at this point, Johan Omar and Jasmine Crockett and AOC,
they're never going to condemn these people, right, They actually
(07:53):
support the message that they're doing. So the saying that
antifa is just an idea, I mean, come down here
and talk to any of them on the street. It's
an organized group. They have subgroups too, like the one
here is Rose City Antifa. It's an organized group, an
organized effort. So I mean, it's just blatantly false to
(08:15):
say that it's just an idea and not an organization.
I don't even know, but I mean, that's that's pretty
much the modern day Democrat Party at this point. You
just blatantly lie to your face and let me ask
you this that you don't think anything else of it, And.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Yeah, no, I think that's totally true. We're talking to
Nick Sorder, who has done incredible sort of on the
ground journalism surrounding these protests in Portland. What do you
think of the police force in Portland? Because I'm gonna
be honest with you. I meet officers all over the
country and they say, hey, you're you know, we listen
(08:50):
to the show. We agree with you on everything. When
you got arrested, did anybody say, hey, man, I agree
with you. I gotta stay undercover a little bit. Do
you think the Portland police as a group have been
basically taken over by left wing activism and that's why
they're not arresting or do you think the police force
recognizes how much a BS this is, but they're being
(09:14):
led from above and not allowed to actually make the
community safe. What's going on in your mind with the
culture of the Portland Police as it pertains to these protests.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm gonna be totally honest with you and I'm not
gonna have any disrespect for the officers that arrested me yesterday.
But they had a very tough time figuring out how
to write a police report. It's like they just never
do it anymore. And that's probably true.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
They are.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I was. When I was there for that six hours,
three people came into the jail. The jail houses it's
the only one in Portland and all of Portland, and
three people came in and a major American city overnight.
They're not arresting anybody. They're not arresting anybody. And in
there was an officer that from a neighboring jurisdiction that
(10:04):
was there with me yesterday. He was he had left
right before this entire thing went down, that he was
providing a security for me, and he went up to
some of the officers there in Portland and said, you
guys have no shame. You should resign in disgrace. You
should not be following these bs orders. Orders that you
know are BSU because they're told to stand down constantly.
(10:27):
You have these foe unquote liaison officers that stand there.
Bill Malluchin posted a video would be being assaulted by
these anti foot thugs the other day and you can
see in the background these officers just standing there, watching
doing nothing. Because what do you think following orders?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
What do you think would happen?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Get too from a patriot and just follow orders like
that and watch, you know, people get beaten the street
like I'm sorry, I'm not going to follow that order.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
If you have President Trump, the White House you mentioned
you talked with Pam BONDI, what should they do to
take control of Portland streets because it sounds like the
Governor's not going to allow it. It sounds like the
Mayor's not going to allow it. But I know there's
a lot of people out there that are listening to
us right now in Portland that are just saying, much
(11:12):
like with what happened with Seattle, Hey, we've got to
have some sanity come in. What should the White House do?
What should the National Guard do? Nobody's getting arrested? What
should happen?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Caroline Levitt is talking about it right now. Actually, she
is going off on on Portland about how they're being
ravaged that she's speaking about the arrest and such. Honestly,
I think that the if you talk to residents here,
this is what they want to see. They actually support
(11:43):
the idea of the federal government coming in and taking
more control here. They're going to say it publicly because
they'll be you know, harassed and assaulted for it. But okay, well, sorry,
I'm little to describe the by Caroline.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Kind of a bit kind of a big deal to
have the White House or talking about your arrest while
you're being interviewed on the biggest radio show in the country.
So we certainly understand that.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
All right, I don't mean to pause there, but but
but yeah, but I live at Washington, d C. Right
where they act like all these people are not wanting
or not liking the federal intervention that's happened there, and
that's just not true. Everyday residents love it. They're excited
by it, they feel safe, they can walk around again.
(12:29):
The people of Portland want the same thing. They just
can't saint publically or else they'll be beating the street too.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Nick while we're talking to you, Mary, Margaret Olihan, I'm
sure you're talking about this, But for there seeing this
for yourself because I can hear Caroline the background. Mary
Margaret Olihan at the Daily Wire says, Caroline Levitt says
Nick Sorder's arrest should be very should is unacceptable and
everyone should be concerned that you were arrested rather than
(12:54):
the violent rioters in Portland. And so we will let
you con and you to watch that just we'll be
in touch. Are you going to be out in the
streets again in Portland? What's you're planning now? And do
you feel like you're going to be safe?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh? Yeah, I've got the guy. I've got a lot
of patriots coming today, so it'll be it'll it'll be good,
It'll be safe. Uh, it's there's a lot of people
flying in just to support me today.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So well, we appreciate everything you're doing. We know it's
a crazy time. We appreciate you making the time to
come on with us. Stay safe, and thank you to
everybody out there that can be and will be patriots.
If people are listening in Portland and they want to
support you, what should they do? What could you tell them.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
To do on the street? Just uh, just support me
on X That's that's that's what that's That's what we
need the most is just uh uh support independent journalists,
not even just me, just people that are there are
a lot of well if you know Katie Davis corn
with the the post millennial that just got assaulted. I'm
gonna uh a freaking hype on the streets to Portland
(13:54):
the other day, and of course nothing is done about it.
It posted do anything, but like support independent journalist. That's
what needs to happen, because we're the ones that are
actually embedded, boots on the ground, you know, risking our
own safety and even freedom doing this stuff. And you know,
the outpating and support has been incredible from so many
people from around the world. And I appreciate you giving
(14:14):
me the platform today.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Thank you for coming on with us. And stay safe.
That is nick sorder. Encourage you guys. You can go
follow and we'll share some of his videos and some
of the stories. But again, he was arrested last night
at the Antifa attack event, basically the protest that Antifa
is putting on surrounding Ice and being talked about right
now in the White House as President Trump prepares, I
(14:38):
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. While we were just talking with Nick Sorder
about his arrest, the White House was talking about Nick
Sorder's arrest. Here's our friend Caroline Levitt at the White
House podium discussing that just moments ago, Cut thirty one.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Just last night we saw an extremely troubling incident where
conservative journalist Nick Sorder was captured on video being taken
into custody by the Portland police after he was ambushed
by Antifa and was defending himself from these assaults. But
instead of arresting these violent mob members nights after nights
after night who are ravaging this community, the police arrested
(16:51):
a journalist who was there trying to document the chaos.
And everyone in this room should be extremely concerned about that.
The Department of Justice spoke with that journalist this morning
and they be launching a full investigation into his arrest.
This incident is part of a troubling trend in Portland
where left wing mobs believe they get to decide who
can visit and live in their city. It is not
their city, it is the American people city. And President
(17:13):
Trump is going to restore that. I just spoke with
the President about this and he has directed his team
here at the White House to begin reviewing aid that
can potentially be cut in Portland. We will not fund
states that allow anarchy.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Well, so Portland is in the FO stage of FAFO
and we will see what ends up happening. We want
Nick to stay safe. And so I know many of
you in the Portland area and beyond, but certainly in Portland,
appreciate the reporting that he's doing. But we got to
arrest all these all these kooks, all these crazy people.
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Show joined now by Eric Nesbitt. He is a state
senator in Michigan running for the governor's office. Up there,
we talked about how Michigan is probably the most important state.
I honestly mean this, if you look at twenty twenty
(19:14):
six and twenty twenty eight and the amount of serious
offices that are up for grabs as there will be
no incumbent governors. The awful Gretchen Whitmer will hop on
her broomstick and right off into the night sky. Eric
nesbit with us. Now, what do you see on the ground.
We talked about this yesterday as well. What do you
(19:35):
see on the ground in Michigan? And are you optimistic
that Michigan can become much more of a red state
in the years ahead?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Hey, Clay, thanks for having me on, And I'll tell
you one thing. Michigan Republicans are excited after last year
President Trump winning the state again and drawing out a
record setting number of people as we continue to grow
the party here Michigan because we've seen what it means
under Governor Whitmer and the Democrats here in Michigan that
(20:06):
it's tougher to make it in Michigan. It's tougher to
do business in Michigan. Three out of four fourth graders
can't read at grade level, so it's tougher for our
kids to learn in Michigan and our job creators. It's
tough for them. With the highest energy cost highest insurance
costs in the Midwest, it's just tougher to expand and invest.
And with Governor Whitmer term limited out, with Gary Peters
(20:28):
leaving and fleeing the US Senate, with three competitive congressional seats,
with the state House. With President Trump's leadership, last year,
we won back the state House in Michigan and we
ended a Democrat trifecta. I feel positive on the ground
and motivated as we continue to grow our campaign and
(20:49):
activate folks on the ground to turn out. I was
in Menominee last Saturday, which is a small community I
think about twenty thousand people. Actually, Tudor Diiction was up
there as one of the speakers. Her and I were
the keynote speakers there and there was a sold out
crowd over one hundred and thirty people in this small county,
and they already had sixty tickets for Lincoln Day sold
(21:10):
for next years. There's a lot of energy that's around there,
and we're continuing to see that around the state.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Talking to Eric Nesbitt, I'm curious when you went to Hillsdale,
and we love Hillsdale College here. Doctor Larry arn has
built a powerhouse. What was that experience like for you?
And I know you have young kids, as do I.
You've got three. As you start to look forward in
the larger educational environment, how impactful do you think Hillsdale
(21:39):
is becoming not only in the state of Michigan where
you are, and obviously as your alma mater, has a
lot of connection to it, but it's a cultural force
across the nation.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Now, Yeah, doctor harn has been a great mentor at
me over the years. He's continues to show leadership and
light and darkness. You know where there's a lot of
darkness and higher education and you saw that with Charlie
Kirk going into college campuses. He was at Michigan State
University this spring. I have a plenty of staff that
(22:08):
used to work for Turning Point or bounteered on campuses.
But you see how the left wing tries to shut
down debate and dissent and try to indoctrinate our kids
in public universities and private colleges. And God blessed Charlie
for taking it on, and they tried to cancel them
and silence them. An Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, an
(22:30):
assassin's bullet took them out. But unlike a lot of
these schools, Hillsdale was one that Charlie Kirk actually believed in,
and he knew that they taught the basics foundations of
American government, of why our rights actually come from a creator,
(22:51):
our God, not from government, where Democrats and the left
wing progressives believe our rights come from government. And we
saw that during the COVID lockdown. So it was disgusting
and wrong the way Governor Whitmer shut down our schools,
shut down our businesses. And this is part of the
reason why I'm running. My wife and I we went
(23:13):
to the OB's office. We're expecting our second kid, and
for me, it began with COVID. My wife was pregnant
in twenty twenty and I wasn't even allowed to attend
a OB's appointment with her. And I'll never forget the
text message she sent when we had when we found
out we had a miscarriage, as I sat in the
parking lot when she informed me that she had a miscarriage.
(23:35):
She was experienced the worst thing a parent can go through,
losing a child, and the Democrats said I could not
be there and comfort her as her husband as the father.
And I'll never forgive Gretchen and Whitmer for that she
did that to our family. We cannot let that happen
ever again, never again. And that's why I'm fighting, and
that's why we need to understand. It's not just about COVID.
(23:58):
People can't make it in me Michigan anymore, and our
businesses it's tougher for them. They cannot make it in Michigan.
Our farmers cannot make it in Michigan, our families cannot
make it a Michigan and the next generation. Unfortunately, our
largest export used to be cars, and now it's our
young people that needs to stop.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
We're talking to Eric Nasabit, running for governor in Michigan.
That's an awful story about your wife and what she
had to discover about the baby while she was by herself. Unfortunately,
there's tons of people out there who weren't able, who
had similar emotionally heartrending experiences, weren't able to say goodbye
to mom or dad, or grandma or grandpa, or people
of their families and friends because they were restricted from
(24:41):
being able to enter under these broken COVID policies. Gretchen
Whitmer actually thinks she did a good job with COVID,
and she may well run for President of the United
States based partly on what she considers to be her
great leadership of Michigan. What happens next with her and
how does Michigan as the front lines of a fifty
to fifty country, helped to determine not only the future
(25:03):
of Gretchen Whitner, but the nation as well.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Well. You got to have strong leadership, just the way
Florida was a fifty to fifty state ten years ago
before President Trump came on the scene. He's effectively worked
it to make it a lot more Republican, and you're
seeing that in Michigan. I think we're becoming more and
more Republican because of President Trump's leadership and working to
bring out working class voters. We're the party of small
(25:28):
business owners, farmers, workers, seniors vote, you know, folks that
actually trust parents. And I believe this is our last
chance to save the state of Michigan. That's why I'm
running for governor is because I want everyone to be
able to make it in Michigan. And if we want
people to be able to make it in Michigan, we
got to turn the chapter from the Biden Whitmer administration
(25:51):
to the Trump Nesbent administration. We have to make Michigan
work for working families, for our seniors, for our small
business owners, and our farmers. And this is what we're
building up and we're getting some great responses across the state.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Would you have ever believe you have two daughters, Would
you ever believe that it would become Democrat Party orthodoxy,
including in the state of Michigan where there have been
many controversies relating to this about men competing in women's
sports being something that needs to be protected by the
state of Michigan.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
And I had two younger daughters, a six year old
and a six month old. That's just blessed on both
of them. And I couldn't imagine ten years ago that
anybody would be defending having a man shower in a
gym with my daughter, or having them play on girls' sports,
or having them learn all the different pronouns instead of
(26:46):
twenty six pronouns being taught in schools. When you get
back to the twenty six letters of the alphabet I had.
I was out in Wayne County a few weeks ago
at a fundraiser mind and a parent came up to
me and said that they have a twelve year old
son going to a public school sixth grade and he
(27:07):
didn't use the they them pronoun for another boy, he
was sent to the principal's office. This is not the
America you and I grew up and and God blessed
that twelve year old kid. And when he went down
to the principal's office, he says, well, with President Trump's orders,
I thought we could actually tell what people are by
(27:28):
the secs that they were born as.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I mean, Wayne County is Detroit for people who don't know.
And yeah, congrats to that twelve year old boy for
actually recognizing biological reality, something that virtually every Democrat elected
official nationwide refuses to do so. Eric Nasbit, how can
people find your website? Where should they go if they
want to know more about the campaign?
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, it's a nusbent for governor. Dot com is the
campaign address. I'm on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram all
that others. But it's Eric with an A. Middle of
five kids all started with a's, and by the time
mom got to me, it was either going to be
Eric or Erica with an A, and boy, I'm glad
you with Eric, I would have grown up a little tougher.
I it was Erica, but yeah, Eric Nesbit and just
(28:17):
farm boy, and that needs to We need to shake
up the status quar and Lansing. Turn the chapter from
Gretchen Whitmer away from Biden, and we need to bring
an ally at President Trump into that that Governor's office
and lead Michigan. Is President Trump's working to make things
in the USA. We need to make sure that it's
easier to make things here in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Awesome. I appreciate the time and have a great weekend,
and good luck with that six month old. I hope
you sleep and tell your wife that we've got her
back here as a community. That's a tough story you
had to go through in twenty twenty, but I'm glad
you have a new baby girl.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Hey, Clay, thank you so much and God bless you.
Thanks for covering the issues that matter and bringing it
to the people. And unfortunately she started sleeping right after
Mother's Day and actually Mother's Day was the first full
night to the night.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That was a big gift, no doubt. It's one of
the best days out there. We appreciate you that's Eric Nesbit.
When we come back, we'll take some of your calls
talk back Friday. No more guest schedule for the rest
of the show. You can react to everything as we
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(29:27):
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Welcome back in Clay. Travis buck Sexton show a couple
of breaking news stories we have just at least it's
just been released that we did it. Trump posted a
video on truth Social just a little bit ago showing
us blowing up another drug boat off the coast of Venezuela,
four different smugglers on it. This has this is at
(31:07):
least the fourth different boat that has been blown up.
That is carrying drugs. President Trump posting that let's see,
I want to make sure that I get it right,
that this boat was loaded with enough drugs to kill
twenty five to fifty thousand people stopped early this morning
off the coast of Venezuela from entering American territory. So
(31:32):
if you wondered, hey, when Trump said I'm going after
the cartels, did he mean that he was really going
to go after the cartels? I would imagine that every
one of these videos is ricocheting around and the text
message threads of anyone that is engaged in drug smuggling
on boats, because instead of knowing that you might risk
being arrested and prosecuted, now you know every time you
(31:57):
hop on a boat and potentially try to make that
drug run, that at any moment you may get blown up,
which I would imagine is something that changes the calculus
a bit. Let's go some of your talkbacks. Podcast listener
Dan from Eastern Oregon. EE, he's got thoughts on what
we talked about earlier in the hour, the situation going
on in Portland.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
This is Dan from Oregon. I'm from the central eastern
part of Oregon where Trump lover's out here and it's
the morons over on the on the coast in Portland
and that area saw the liberal idiots and cotex moron
the governor, and I say, Trump, bring it on, bring
(32:39):
the National Guard in here and clean this place up.
It's been a long time needed.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Thank you, no doubt. I think there are a lot
of people in Oregon, rational, reasonable people that look at
what's going on and say they've effectively destroyed Portland. You wonder,
by the way, this is not a huge thing, but
I think Portland would have gotten a Major League Baseball franchise,
for instance, because I don't know how many of you
(33:05):
are paying attention to this, but in the next few years,
Major League Baseball is going to expand, and there is
talk that they're going to put one in the West
and one in the East. Now, maybe that ends up changing.
I think my hometown of Nashville is going to get
a Major League Baseball franchise. Be super cool. Again, that's
several years into the future. Portland may well have been
the choice. I was talking to some people from Major
(33:28):
League Baseball and they said the way the city downtown
has fallen apart has taken Portland out of significant running
to get a major League baseball franchise. Now you may say, well, okay, well,
who cares that much about a Major League baseball franchise.
To me, it's emblematic of any organization that decides, hey,
where should we put our new plant, Where should we
(33:50):
put our new corporate headquarters. Blue states are losing out
over their inability to constrain violence, and it's become a major,
major issue, and as a result, I think a city
like Salt Lake may end up getting a baseball team.
I'm not saying salt Lake City's perfect, but there aren't
people rioting every night downtown such that you feel unsafe
(34:14):
walking around in the city of salt Lake. Now Vegas
got a team. Vegas is not perfect, but they don't
stand for constant riots in the streets. I think that
there is a legitimate argument that the last five years
of constant riots in Portland that has diminished and demean
the safety and livelihood of people who live in the
(34:35):
downtown Portland area has directly cost them a major League
baseball franchise. I don't know anybody else is going to
tell you that let's have some fun Sondra in New
Jersey and then we got some cuts potentially from Caroline
Levitt Sondra.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
What you got for us, Hi, Clay, thank you for
taking my call. I had two thoughts. One with ma'am
Donnie with the flowers for the bachelor thing. To me,
he's not original at all. To me, he copied Donald Trump.
Donald Trump went to McDonald's, Donald Trump went on that
big truck, So to me, that was a copycat. I feel,
(35:15):
what do you think of that, that.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
He's a well, look, I don't know that it's a copykite,
a copycat, but I think what you hit on is important.
When Trump went to McDonald's, When Trump put on the
garbage outfit and drove around in the garbage truck in
the final days of the campaign, Trump gets how to
cut through the noise and take advantage of larger cultural
issues that connect with people that aren't necessarily Hey, how
(35:38):
should we analyze the Bill of Rights in the modern era?
That stuff matters, but punching through the noise matters more. Sorry,
So I think that's unfortunately where mom Donnie is really good.
His policies are awful, but he's going to people where
they are okay.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
And the other thode I had was you know people, okay,
I want you to give you in and out. For instance,
like you have a state and they're troubled and they
need help, and the leaders don't want to admit it.
To state, they look like they're not doing right by
the state. But sometimes you need help and it's not
a bad thing. Just like a person who has a
hoarding problem in an apartment, no matter how hard they try,
(36:18):
they can't get rid of the stuff. They need help.
And sometimes it doesn't mean the person is bad. It
means they need help. And the same thing with a
state that has a problem. Don't if you need help.
To me, it doesn't mean anything bad. It just means
you need help.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't disagree. And this goes to my point. Think
about how broken Democrat ideas are. They're arguing that crime
isn't that bad and so far so, therefore it doesn't
need to be lower. They're arguing against Trump putting violent
criminals in prison. They're arguing against Trump going to Memphis, Washington,
d C. Portland cities like Chicago, Baltimore that need all
(36:55):
the help they can get. Seems to me like he's
making the right call.
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