October 21, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show delivers a dynamic mix of political analysis, historical reflection, and breaking news, centered around President Donald Trump’s remarks, the ongoing government shutdown, and the intensifying New York City mayoral race. The hour opens with commentary on Trump’s East Wing renovation, including a ballroom project and a humorous historical anecdote about JFK’s infamous White House pool parties. The hosts use this to critique the media’s long-standing romanticization of Democratic figures like JFK and FDR, highlighting how past administrations manipulated public perception with the help of a compliant press.
The conversation shifts to Trump’s speech on the shutdown, where he praises OMB Director Russ Vought—nicknamed “Darth Vader”—for cutting Democrat priorities and wasteful spending. Clay and Buck argue that the shutdown has allowed the administration to eliminate unnecessary programs, particularly in blue states, and that Democrats are struggling to justify their resistance. They mock Chuck Schumer’s attempt to frame the shutdown as a Republican failure, labeling it the “Schumer Shutdown” and pointing out the hypocrisy of Democrats who once promised Obamacare would lower healthcare costs.
A key segment features TN Senator Marsha Blackburn, who joins live from Washington, D.C. after attending a lunch with President Trump in the Rose Garden. Blackburn discusses the shutdown’s impact, the Democrats’ push to supercharge Obamacare, and the strategic budget cuts being implemented. She also highlights the success of Trump’s National Guard deployment in Memphis, Tennessee, citing dramatic reductions in crime, gang arrests, and the rescue of missing children. Blackburn suggests Memphis could become a national model for urban crime reduction.
The hosts then pivot to economic policy, playing a clip of Jon Stewart criticizing Democrats for relying on subsidies that inflate costs in healthcare and education. Bernie Sanders responds with his usual rhetoric about taxing billionaires, prompting Clay and Buck to debunk the myth that higher taxes on the wealthy can solve systemic budget issues. They emphasize that inflation acts as a hidden tax on everyday Americans and that government overspending is the root cause of economic instability.
Listener calls round out the hour, with discussions on free speech and workplace consequences following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. One caller shares a story about a colleague being fired over social media comments, while another highlights a viral video of a teacher celebrating Kirk’s death in front of students. The hosts reiterate that First Amendment protections do not shield individuals from professional accountability, especially in public service roles.
The hour closes with more analysis of the New York City mayoral race, where Curtis Sliwa’s refusal to drop out is seen as paving the way for Zohran Mamdani’s victory. Callers debate whether Republicans should support Andrew Cuomo to block Mamdani, with some arguing that a Mamdani win would expose the dangers of far-left governance and benefit the GOP nationally. The show ends with a preview of Clay and Buck’s upcoming visit to Fort Wayne, Indiana for a station anniversary event.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into the third hour of the Clay Travis en
Buck Sexton Show. We're gonna be joined at bottom of
the hour by our friend, Senator Marsha Blackburn of the
Great State of Tennessee, which may be adding to its
numbers from some New Yorkers at Mont Donnie wins. We'll see.
I know Florida is going to Florida. Real estate price
(00:22):
is already sky high, probably gonna go up a little
bit more in some areas. It's only going to be
in a couple of places right where I live, and
also probably in the West Palm Beach del Rey Boca Corridor.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll see. Maybe Kami Mon Donnie is not really that awful.
I think that's very unlikely, but it could be the case.
We also have Trump just speaking a few moments ago.
As you know, there's a and the team pointed this
out to me, privately funded renovation, really a remodel, a
(00:56):
demo and remodel of the East wing of the White
House to accommodate a ballroom that some people are saying
going to be the most fabulous ballroom of all ballrooms.
It's going to be spectacular, I'm sure. And This is
President Trump speaking about the West Wings history and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
More.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Play thirty.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This is as you see over here, the Presidential Walk
of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And we had this long wall with half windows because
that used to be a swimming pool. On the other
side of the wall. That was the swimming.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Pool where Jackie would say, I hear women inside? Are
women inside? Quite a famous I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
This was a part of a movie.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And the Secret Service said, no, ma'am, there's no women inside.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm sorry, ma'am. You're gonna have to move along. But
I hear women inside.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No, ma'am, you'll have to move along, ma'am. So that
was the famous swimming pool. Now it's even worse. It's
for the media. They covered the pull up. They covered
the pull up, and now it's for the media. And
I think we have a small representative group. I don't
think they allowed the rest of them. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
What happened. They're roll on the other side of the wall.
Can you believe it? That is one hell?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
So the story. Should I tell the story that Trump
is telling? I guess I have to tell the story
that Trump is telling. Buck this I think they do
these angry emails are buck Section's fault. So word is
from the White House historian crew that back in the
day JFK, as soon as Jackie Kennedy would leave the
(02:38):
White House would roll in girls and they would have
naked swimming parties in the White House swimming pool. So
if you think Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was scandalous,
but what Trump is referencing is that they would have
skinny dipping sessions when AFK was president with girls that
(03:03):
they would they would bring in so that pools now
covered up and it's worth the prescoes. But that is
a accurate so far as I have heard a historical
rendition that Trump was referencing there. Probably did not expect
that that would be the opening of the Third Hour,
But that is what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
JFK and Camelot and all that stuff is a pure
the same way that they went with Biden doesn't have dementia.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
It was a pure fabrication.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of the Democrat aligned media, and not just then, but
a continuation perpetuation because it created this Kennedy dynasty, so
called dynasty that led to someone like Ted Kennedy who
let a woman drown in the back of his car. Right,
these are the kind of people that the Kennedys brought
(03:56):
us in politics. And isn't there a wasn't there like
the red haired guy who was gonna be the you know,
the great hope of the Kennedys, And he gave some
like sweaty face speech after the you know what I'm
talking about, There was a young Kennedy another a member
of Congress. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, Patrick, Yes, that
sounds right, Yeah, I did. Basically, they're they're a Democrat
(04:21):
brand and they're protected as such. But if you actually
look at the conduct of JFK in the in the
Oval office in the White House, and as a person,
he was also a very sickly guy, needed a whole
bunch of of different controlled substances to get through the day.
This this idea that he was this strapping, handsome, you know,
(04:41):
all American guy and all this is all I'm just saying,
it's all a fabrication. Yes, this is all stuff that
was fed to people because there was no you know,
it's different. You didn't have the constant media cycle. You
didn't have so many people that have not just access
but are able to use their own methods of of
capturing information and everyone walks around. Now, think about it
(05:03):
this way. When Kennedy was actually President Clay, the press
had a fraction of the access and the ability to
create content that every single one of our listeners right
now does.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yes, I mean no, the evolution. I mean look, and
it wasn't just Kennedy, right They pretended that FDR was
not in a wheelchair. I mean that that's maybe one
of the most staggering complicit related media aspects. They pretended
that that that FDR wasn't actually needing to be pushed
(05:40):
around in a wheelchair because because the press was asked
to do so.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And well, they also got away with with Woodrow Wilson's
wife running the White House, Edith.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Was basically the President of the United States, because he
had such a bad stroke.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I also think that that we didn't talk about it
that much much. I think that same dynamic factored in
with doctor I love that we all call our doctor
and just gosh, doctor Jill Biden. I think she recognized
that her frail husband meant that she was in a
more powerful role than a first lady certainly could or
(06:18):
should be generally, so that was a part rep But
let's get back to Trump here what he just said
about this or what he was just saying. He spoke
about the shutdown. All along there has been the things
that the shutdown has made possible as part of what
the White House can do. It's a great refutation of
the note King's rally. I might add, right, the government
(06:38):
is shut down. The king can't just open the government
because he's not a king, as we all know. It's
such a stupid rally, a stupid name. It's just not good.
But back to what Trump is saying about the shutdown.
He talked about Russ vaughtuh and here's what he says
about this individual and his cutting and the prioritization underway,
Play thirty two.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I will say this that we have Darth Vader.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You know Darth Vader, right, Darth Vader is a man
who I think he's sitting right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is that Darth stand up? Please? Darth Vader stand up?
Does everybody know this? Is they call him Darth Vader.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I call him a fine man, but he's cutting Democrat
priorities and they're never going to.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Get him back.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And they've caused us, and they've really allowed us to
do it. And by the way, thank you. You doing a
great job. I have to tell you so really a
great job. Because many of the things that they're cutting,
like the New York Project twenty billion dollars, we're cutting it.
They're not going to get it back. I mean, they're
not going to get a lot of things back. They
may not get back. Maybe we'll talk to him about it.
(07:45):
But they're losing the things that they wanted. But many
of the things that they wanted are things that we
don't want, the things that are just so bad for
our country, and.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're cutting those things out.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Clay russ Watt is the head of O b Offics
Management and Budget, and they're able to get in there
with the scalpel and cut some of these government programs
because of the shutdown. So another component of this.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Not only that it is just not registering in any
way that the government shutdown still going on. I understand
that some of you out there are going to have
to get back pay if you're in military. Trump is
saying that he wants to make sure that everybody gets
paid again. They're going to have a press availability for
the Republican senators that are all at the White House
(08:35):
right now, and we're scheduled talking with Marsha Blackburn at
the bottom of the hour, so we'll hear what President
Trump said. But I just think that they are in
such incredible difficulty here because they didn't want to shut down.
They didn't want to bend the knee before the government protests,
before the no Kings protests. And now a part of
(08:57):
me thinks buck that they may think this is advantageous
for them on some small level in Virginia and New
Jersey and two close governor's races. Maybe it motivates a
little bit turnout. I don't know, but I think the
idea that there was going to be some mass rallying
effect to the Democrat side has certainly not been reflected
(09:20):
in the polls, and it hasn't been reflected in the
reactions by and large, as most people have just kind
of said, yeah, there's not a lot to this.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well here is since we're talking about the shutdown a
little bit. The latest explanation of this that we get
from Chuck Schumer, who is really it is the Schumer shutdown.
I mean, this guy, more than any other, is responsible
for where this is. This is cut twelve hit it.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
We enter another week of Donald Trump's government shutdown, and
Republicans seem happy not to work, happy not to negotiate,
happy to let healthcare premium spike for over twenty million
working middle class Americans. Our country is staring down the
barrel of a healthcare catastrophe, and Republicans will spend this
week either vacationing or holding pep rallies at the White House.
(10:10):
It's been over a month since the House of Representatives
even took a single roll call vote. That's shameful, that's derelict.
Government workers must work without getting paid. House Republicans get
paid without working.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And yet it's the humor shutdown. You can say whatever
he wants about it. Clay, I don't think that's gonna work.
I also think that the more they talk about healthcare,
hold on a second. Obamacare was supposed to make everything cheaper.
Why do we have to shovel billions and billions of
dollars into Obamacare to make it even temporarily seem solvent.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
All of us are paying way more than we were
told we would ever have to pay for healthcare to
a large extent, because Obamacare has failed, and this idea
that your insurance was going to be cheaper, or you
were going to have more flexibility when it came to
your doctors. It has been proven to be I think
(11:05):
a complete and total lie, and so everybody out there
who is dealing and I think it's all of us
when you have to go to the doctor and you
get back your bill and you say, how in the
world could it possibly have cost this much? Or how
can my insurance premiums have risen to the level that
they have. Obamacare has actually made as many people argued
that would be the case, everything more expensive and worse
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than it would be if we had never fiddled with
it at all, and in fact kind of ties in
with this. I can't believe I'm going to give him
credit here what John Stewart said about Bernie Sanders. The
Democrat solution is always subsidies, and when the government causes
endless funds to be spent, John Stewart's actually making sense here.
Prices rise, This was cut fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The Democratic solutions have never been to directly provides. It's
always been a subsidy.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The absolutely rital man.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But what happens is when the government promises endless funds
to insurance companies or private universities without any cost controls.
And Trump seems to understand this price has rised far
beyond the rate of inflation. And we've seen it in tuition,
and we've seen it in pharmaceutical and we've seen it
(12:23):
in healthcare. So my question is will democrats recognize the
poison pill that they've often placed into well intentioned policy.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
They don't understand basic economics. And I think, to John
Stewart's credit, he's elucidating that democrats don't understand market based
policies and get all of their prescriptions wrong, which ends
up costing us all more.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Let's play the Bernie response to that. On the other
side of this. You can have Bernie Sanders, it's gonna
be like, but the more we spent comes from the
millionaires and the billion is it's it gonna be something
like that. There's gonna be some yes, non psychic I
like your argument. I think that is likely to be proven. Sure, yeah,
I don't know what it is. I'm just guessing, but
economic illiterate Bernie Sanders is going to have some foolish
(13:11):
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Speaker 6 (14:33):
Welcome back in Clay Travis, buck Sexton. Show Buck predicted
that after John Stewart pointed out that democrats big problem
was they don't understand basic economics and everything they claim
is going to make everything more affordable actually makes things
more expensive, that Bernie will likely respond and say billionaires
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are to blame. Let's find out cut sixteen.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
We have got to make it simple. In the wealthiest
country in the history of the world world. Should healthcare
be a huven right, Yes it should be. Should we
have the best quality education in the world from childcare
to graduate school, yes we should.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Right, But these are these are how do you have
Let's get there.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
What we need is a very simple, straightforward agenda which says,
by the way, and this is this is really just
STI Key point you gotta finally say to the oligous
who have never ever had.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It so good to make a money hand over.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Fist, all right, and you got to say to them, sorry, guys.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
A billion dollars is enough.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
You ain't gonna have two hundred billion or three hundred billion,
try to survive.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And the a billion, you're gonna.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Start paying your fair share of taxes.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, A million is and billion is just it's always
it's this guy's the ultimate broken record has noticed he
said one hundred billion, two hundred billion, You got to
live on a billion? Does you understand what that would
actually mean?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How are you even going to get there? Second of all,
it would mean the destruction companies because people don't sit
on one hundred This isn't Scrooge McDuck and ductails swimming
in the vault of gold coins. People don't have one
hundred billion dollars in cash.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Ninety percent of money doesn't physically exist. And so I
wish that there had been an immediate pushback there from
John Stewart and say, okay, you always have this slogan,
everybody should pay their fair share. Billionaires often are paying,
like Elon Musk did fifty percent tax rates. When they
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live in in California and they sell stock, what is
their fair share? Because over half of what you make
seems like way more than a fair share, particularly when
over half of Americans don't pay a single dollar in
income tax. So again, over half of all Americans don't
(16:55):
pay a dollar in federal income tax. They're also but
the tax is even worse than the tax rate on
everybody because inflation is really just a tax on everybody
that particularly hits those without assets that are getting inflated.
So this is why everything is feeling like it's more expensive,
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and this is why you know, wages are not keeping up,
and all the challenges that a lot of people speak
about in general terms economically play worse. The government, the
federal government of which Bernie Sanders is a part in
the Senate, spends more than it takes in, even at
the current tax rates.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So this idea that if they took.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
In more money they wouldn't also be adding on top
of that the debasement of our currency is absurd. They
would just take in more money and spend more money
than they're even taking in, because that's.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What they always do.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And there aren't enough billionaires to balance the budget, meaning
that eventually what they do to the richest trickles down
to everybody else as well.
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Welcome back into cli Buck. We're joined by Senator Marshall Blackburn. Now,
Senator Blackburn, thank you for making the time for Thank.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're making time.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh I'm delighted to join you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Let's start with some shutdown talk, if we can, Senator,
the heck is going on here with these Democrats. They
had their little silly no Kings rallies, so they made
it seem like they have something to say other than
Trump is bad, although that's really the same thing, Trump
is bad, No Kings, little childish whatever. But now the
government's been closed, I think twenty one days, what's going
(19:31):
to happen here? Are they going to blink? Are they
going to finally give up? What do you see going on?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Some of the Democrats are beginning to say, well, we
need to bring an end to this, and then you've
got Chuck Schumer saying, well, we did the No Kings
and now if we vote to reopen the government, it's
going to look like we are giving in and caving in.
And oh, By the way, the notices on the Obamacare
premiums are going to go out November first, and we
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will to keep it shut to then. I think the
important thing that we need to remember is this, what
they are wanting to do is to supercharge Obamacare. You know,
in the beginning when they did Obamacare, they said this
was a step toward a single payer system, government run healthcare,
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and this has been their goal.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
So what we have to.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Do is realize that is their goal and we can't
let them continue with these enhance COVID credit premiums where
they took off the caps and anybody that was in
the marketplace got a subsidie.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn. I think based on
the background there, you may still be at the White House.
President Trump came out and spoke for some time. There's
also been a press conference with Senate Republicans there. What
did you learn today? What's the what should we know?
It looks like a beautiful day in Washington. Also about
(21:04):
the changes that President Trump has made to the White House.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You know, Clay, we were in the Rose Garden for
lunch and had a wonderful time with him. We're on
our way back to the Capitol right now to vote.
It was a very upbeat lunch. We were delighted to
have some time with the President to talk about what
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is taking place as we are in this shutdown, to
talk about our concerns for making certain that the troops
are going to be tended to that women and infants
and children are going to get the benefits that they need,
and talk about the importance of getting the government reopened
so we can return to the appropriations process. And we've
(21:56):
done great work in the Senate. Our Appropriate Committee has
all our bills ready to go to the floor. Three
of them are already finished and are ready to go
into conference with the House, and regular order would be
a very good thing. Getting onto a Republican budget instead
of a Biden COVID era budget is something that's important.
(22:19):
Part of the silliness of this whole thing with the
Democrats is that they have already voted five times for
these funding levels, not once or twice, but five times,
and now they're saying, well, they're so full of hatred
for Donald Trump, they're trying to make excuses and then
(22:40):
not vote to reopen the government.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Senator Blackburn, Trump spoke a bit about Russ Vought going
after some spending that this administration thinks is graceful taxpayer
dollars not going to good effect. Can speaks with any
specificity to some of what those programs are, what is
able to be done in terms of cutting during this period,
(23:08):
because Trump has referred to it many times, and he
gave really a big high five to OMB Director Director
Vaught earlier today.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yes he did, and Ruts was there at lunch with us.
There are programs, some of these programs that some of
the big blue states have wanted, some infrastructure projects that
many times conservatives have questioned the usefulness or appropriateness of
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using taxpayer dollars for some of these programs. And indeed
there's the opportunity to cut and eliminate those There's the
opportunity to eliminate some of these jobs, like over at
the IRS. And I was seated with Secretary Besant at
the lunch. I'm glad he is overseeing the IRS. But
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you know, that is where you can begin to cut
the fat out of some of these government programs. And
I commit to kind of being like Goge on steroids,
where you can say this is wasteful. The other is
wasteful government shutdowns. We have to be careful with the resources,
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and so these programs and things that are not necessary
can be eliminated, and it is part of the president's
prerogative during a government shut down to remove those programs.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
In the background, we can hear what sounds like an
emergency going off.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Well, actually it is the motorcade. You're going from the
side house back to the Capitol for the vote. So
you're getting this in real time.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Well, so, I was just going to say, it made
me think about the President calling out the National Guard
not only in Washington, DC, but also in Memphis. And
so you have unique opportunity to see it happen in
both places because you spend a lot of time in Washington,
d C. And also you have traveled and represent Memphis.
(25:15):
What have you heard from people about the impact the
safety do you see it? Do you feel it that
the President's call up of the National Guard and the
State Guard has had.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I'd have to tell you. In Memphis and Shelby County,
and I was there twice last week, people come up
to me and say thank you so much. They know
that I've worked very hard on this. Senator Haggarty has
worked very hard on this also, and one of the
things that I have put a lot of energy into
(25:50):
is drawing the attention of Cash Bettel and Pam Bondi
and the President to what we need in Shelby County
and Memphis. The Mayor of Memphis has done a great
job working with us. People are thrilled that Memphis is safe.
We're going to make certain that Memphis is the safest
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city in the United States and that they lose this
moniker of having been the most dangerous for capita. We
also feel like with things going so well in Memphis
and the governor and the Guard and the Highway Patrol
and the TBI and thirteen federal agencies all working together,
(26:36):
that we can show what we did in Memphis and
that can be the model for fighting crime all across
the country and Memphis right at twelve hundred gang members
have been apprehended. Most of those gang kingpins have been apprehended.
(26:58):
You've got sixty missing children that have been rescued. You've
got two hundred and twenty seven illegal firearms that have
been pulled off the streets. And that is what has
happened in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Senator Blackbird, appreciate you being with us. Thanks so much,
you got it.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Take care back, Clay.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I think if the if the crime program bears the
kind of results that we're hoping it does, this could
be one of the big, one of the big wins
for the Trump for the Trump presidency, for the Trump administration,
because it will break through this idea that Democrat controlled
(27:44):
cities can just be lawless crime hell holes for fifty
years on end, with no one ever stopping to say,
maybe we should do something differently here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yeah, And it reminds me of the border because we
heard for so long if Congress can act, then it
doesn't act, and how could we ever shut down the border,
and then Trump just shut down the border? And there
is an element I think when you see the crime
collapse in Washington, DC and in Memphis, that we've just
come to tolerate this and we don't have to. And yes,
(28:19):
why would the precedent that's brought to bear and both
of those cities not also be used other places? It
seems like this could be really potentially transformative in a
positive way for everybody of all different backgrounds. Since as
we have talked about on this program for a long time.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We are
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forgot what day of the week it is. Already we'll
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Speaker 10 (30:12):
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All right, we got a bunch of people who want
to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I say this will be my This will be my
third trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
But there is a veteran of Fort Wayne, Indiana I
have never been. We will be there all day tomorrow.
WOO dot com if you want to come hang out
with us post show. Jeff in Phoenix, let's take some
of your calls well Rack and stack him to close
out the show today. Thank y'all for calling Jeff. What
you got.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (31:09):
Regarding the free speech thing. The company I work for,
nice some guy within roughly a week of when Charlie
Kirk got killed was terminated from the company. My boss
pulls us all into a quick impromptu conference call. He goes,
please be careful what you say on social media, and
he specifically mentioned Facebook. I'm like, what was.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Said, who said it?
Speaker 11 (31:33):
And we all know who said it, but we don't
know what was said. So I'm all about free speech,
but consequences are coming, guys.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, no doubt. Look, I mean I think everybody has
to be aware. In fact, I think this is California.
We talked about the Chicago public school teacher, but this
is going viral right now. Another teacher. This is audio,
but the video is out there of a public school
teacher celebrating Charlie kirk assassination.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
This is what.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
You can hear it a little bit there. They're chanting
Charlie Kirk in favor of him. Those are kids and
this teacher is chanting is dead, is dead, celebrating Crazy
Tom in Florida fire away.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
For forty years, and the stuff I saw during that
period of time was incredible. I know one thing. When
a person reaches the rock bottom, they go one of
two ways. They get help and survive, they keep going
and they die. New York is in the same situation.
They've just about hit rock bottom, and if they put
mom Donnie in, they are going to hit rock bottom.
(32:44):
And they can only go one of two ways. They
can start voting differently and get help for themselves. They
can collapse and hopefully for them, a Democrat will get
elected and bail them out, because that's their only hope
to These morons keep voting the same way all the time,
and they can fiction and regret it, but I kind
of hope it sort of happens. They need to get
there and get this help.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Buck, you live through it. Things are just not bad
enough in New York City for somebody like Giuliani to
come in and be the savior.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well, this is this is where you when you look
at the historical comparisons. When Giuliani came in, I should
say after a few years of Dinkins. When Guliani came in,
you had an incredibly high murder rate, yes, right, and
so that was even the communists at some point are
(33:33):
saying there are too many people being shot on the
streets of New York. And when I say too many,
over two thousand. Yeah, okay, murders. So you got to
think how many thousands of people were shot on top
of that. I mean, it was really out of control.
New York now has, for a city of its size,
a pretty low murder rate, actually American you know system
(33:54):
not obviously, you know, Taiwanese or something where they have
almost no murders, very low murder rate. And so the
stuff that we're really talking about is quality of life issues,
you know, trash on the streets, illegals piling in, taking
over whole hotels, people acting like maniacs on the subway,
(34:16):
and a lot of libs will tell themselves, you know,
that's a price other people are going to pay. It
makes me feel good about myselves. While the drivers putting
up the partition on the way to the Hamptons to
vote for this stuff. And a lot of a lot
of left wingers will even tell themselves no matter what happens,
Clay Real Mom Donnism has never been tried. They these
(34:38):
people don't learn their lessons.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
It is the point Positive News will take a couple
more year calls to finish the show. There are a
lot of polls rolling in as we get close to
Virginia and New Jersey elections. Jason Miaraz, who we had
on last week, I believe or the week before last,
the Virginia Attorney general candidate is surging. And Jay Jones,
(35:01):
who said in text messages, I hope these Republicans' kids die.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
We may have seen.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Something where normal people say, ah, that's maybe a bit
too far, as his chances are collapsing. And one thing
one wonders, as they called in Barack Obama to campaign,
whether that is also starting to have an impact on
the governor's race, because Spanberger has not called for Jay
Jones to drop out yet. Dave and Gilminton, New Hampshire, Dave,
(35:32):
what you got for us?
Speaker 10 (35:35):
I wanted to make a comment about the New York's
Post assertion that if Slee were to drop out, he
could save New York City from Mondami by increasing Cuomo's
chances of winning the mayoral race. Understand this. Cuomo's political
aspirations do not end with being mayor of New York City.
He wants to use it as a springboard to be
the party nominee for president in twenty twenty eight. And
(35:57):
why would Republicans want to do anything to help him
do that because he'll be touted as the moderate Democrat.
I'm with Clay, New York City needs to suffer the
pain of electing a communist so that the rest of
the country can see the Democrats had a chance to
move to the center after Trump one in twenty four
and instead they're moving further left. And what they're doing
(36:18):
in New York City with Mom Damie is what they
want to do for the rest of the country. To
the rest of the country. Once that realization is made,
then our constitutional republic is safe for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We have such excellent, excellent callers, you know, fantastic. Okay,
listen to good radio hosts all day and they pick
something up from it, you know, and I.
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Welcome into the third hour of the Clay Travis en
Buck Sexton Show. We're gonna be joined at bottom of
the hour by our friend, Senator Marsha Blackburn of the
Great State of Tennessee, which may be adding to its
numbers from some New Yorkers at Mont Donnie wins. We'll see.
I know Florida is going to Florida. Real estate price
(00:22):
is already sky high, probably gonna go up a little
bit more in some areas. It's only going to be
in a couple of places right where I live, and
also probably in the West Palm Beach del Rey Boca Corridor.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
We'll see. Maybe Kami Mon Donnie is not really that awful.
I think that's very unlikely, but it could be the case.
We also have Trump just speaking a few moments ago.
As you know, there's a and the team pointed this
out to me, privately funded renovation, really a remodel, a
(00:56):
demo and remodel of the East wing of the White
House to accommodate a ballroom that some people are saying
going to be the most fabulous ballroom of all ballrooms.
It's going to be spectacular, I'm sure. And This is
President Trump speaking about the West Wings history and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
More.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Play thirty.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
This is as you see over here, the Presidential Walk
of Fame.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And we had this long wall with half windows because
that used to be a swimming pool. On the other
side of the wall. That was the swimming.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Pool where Jackie would say, I hear women inside? Are
women inside? Quite a famous I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
This was a part of a movie.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And the Secret Service said, no, ma'am, there's no women inside.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Ma'am.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I'm sorry, ma'am. You're gonna have to move along. But
I hear women inside.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
No, ma'am, you'll have to move along, ma'am. So that
was the famous swimming pool. Now it's even worse. It's
for the media. They covered the pull up. They covered
the pull up, and now it's for the media. And
I think we have a small representative group. I don't
think they allowed the rest of them. I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
What happened. They're roll on the other side of the wall.
Can you believe it? That is one hell?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
So the story. Should I tell the story that Trump
is telling? I guess I have to tell the story
that Trump is telling. Buck this I think they do
these angry emails are buck Section's fault. So word is
from the White House historian crew that back in the
day JFK, as soon as Jackie Kennedy would leave the
(02:38):
White House would roll in girls and they would have
naked swimming parties in the White House swimming pool. So
if you think Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was scandalous,
but what Trump is referencing is that they would have
skinny dipping sessions when AFK was president with girls that
(03:03):
they would they would bring in so that pools now
covered up and it's worth the prescoes. But that is
a accurate so far as I have heard a historical
rendition that Trump was referencing there. Probably did not expect
that that would be the opening of the Third Hour,
But that is what I was talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
JFK and Camelot and all that stuff is a pure
the same way that they went with Biden doesn't have dementia.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
It was a pure fabrication.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Of the Democrat aligned media, and not just then, but
a continuation perpetuation because it created this Kennedy dynasty, so
called dynasty that led to someone like Ted Kennedy who
let a woman drown in the back of his car. Right,
these are the kind of people that the Kennedys brought
(03:56):
us in politics. And isn't there a wasn't there like
the red haired guy who was gonna be the you know,
the great hope of the Kennedys, And he gave some
like sweaty face speech after the you know what I'm
talking about, There was a young Kennedy another a member
of Congress. He was yeah, yeah, yeah, Patrick, Yes, that
sounds right, Yeah, I did. Basically, they're they're a Democrat
(04:21):
brand and they're protected as such. But if you actually
look at the conduct of JFK in the in the
Oval office in the White House, and as a person,
he was also a very sickly guy, needed a whole
bunch of of different controlled substances to get through the day.
This this idea that he was this strapping, handsome, you know,
(04:41):
all American guy and all this is all I'm just saying,
it's all a fabrication. Yes, this is all stuff that
was fed to people because there was no you know,
it's different. You didn't have the constant media cycle. You
didn't have so many people that have not just access
but are able to use their own methods of of
capturing information and everyone walks around. Now, think about it
(05:03):
this way. When Kennedy was actually President Clay, the press
had a fraction of the access and the ability to
create content that every single one of our listeners right
now does.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Yes, I mean no, the evolution. I mean look, and
it wasn't just Kennedy, right They pretended that FDR was
not in a wheelchair. I mean that that's maybe one
of the most staggering complicit related media aspects. They pretended
that that that FDR wasn't actually needing to be pushed
(05:40):
around in a wheelchair because because the press was asked
to do so.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And well, they also got away with with Woodrow Wilson's
wife running the White House, Edith.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Was basically the President of the United States, because he
had such a bad stroke.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I also think that that we didn't talk about it
that much much. I think that same dynamic factored in
with doctor I love that we all call our doctor
and just gosh, doctor Jill Biden. I think she recognized
that her frail husband meant that she was in a
more powerful role than a first lady certainly could or
(06:18):
should be generally, so that was a part rep But
let's get back to Trump here what he just said
about this or what he was just saying. He spoke
about the shutdown. All along there has been the things
that the shutdown has made possible as part of what
the White House can do. It's a great refutation of
the note King's rally. I might add, right, the government
(06:38):
is shut down. The king can't just open the government
because he's not a king, as we all know. It's
such a stupid rally, a stupid name. It's just not good.
But back to what Trump is saying about the shutdown.
He talked about Russ vaughtuh and here's what he says
about this individual and his cutting and the prioritization underway,
Play thirty two.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I will say this that we have Darth Vader.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
You know Darth Vader, right, Darth Vader is a man
who I think he's sitting right.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Is that Darth stand up? Please? Darth Vader stand up?
Does everybody know this? Is they call him Darth Vader.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I call him a fine man, but he's cutting Democrat
priorities and they're never going to.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Get him back.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
And they've caused us, and they've really allowed us to
do it. And by the way, thank you. You doing a
great job. I have to tell you so really a
great job. Because many of the things that they're cutting,
like the New York Project twenty billion dollars, we're cutting it.
They're not going to get it back. I mean, they're
not going to get a lot of things back. They
may not get back. Maybe we'll talk to him about it.
(07:45):
But they're losing the things that they wanted. But many
of the things that they wanted are things that we
don't want, the things that are just so bad for
our country, and.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're cutting those things out.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Clay russ Watt is the head of O b Offics
Management and Budget, and they're able to get in there
with the scalpel and cut some of these government programs
because of the shutdown. So another component of this.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Not only that it is just not registering in any
way that the government shutdown still going on. I understand
that some of you out there are going to have
to get back pay if you're in military. Trump is
saying that he wants to make sure that everybody gets
paid again. They're going to have a press availability for
the Republican senators that are all at the White House
(08:35):
right now, and we're scheduled talking with Marsha Blackburn at
the bottom of the hour, so we'll hear what President
Trump said. But I just think that they are in
such incredible difficulty here because they didn't want to shut down.
They didn't want to bend the knee before the government protests,
before the no Kings protests. And now a part of
(08:57):
me thinks buck that they may think this is advantageous
for them on some small level in Virginia and New
Jersey and two close governor's races. Maybe it motivates a
little bit turnout. I don't know, but I think the
idea that there was going to be some mass rallying
effect to the Democrat side has certainly not been reflected
(09:20):
in the polls, and it hasn't been reflected in the
reactions by and large, as most people have just kind
of said, yeah, there's not a lot to this.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well here is since we're talking about the shutdown a
little bit. The latest explanation of this that we get
from Chuck Schumer, who is really it is the Schumer shutdown.
I mean, this guy, more than any other, is responsible
for where this is. This is cut twelve hit it.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
We enter another week of Donald Trump's government shutdown, and
Republicans seem happy not to work, happy not to negotiate,
happy to let healthcare premium spike for over twenty million
working middle class Americans. Our country is staring down the
barrel of a healthcare catastrophe, and Republicans will spend this
week either vacationing or holding pep rallies at the White House.
(10:10):
It's been over a month since the House of Representatives
even took a single roll call vote. That's shameful, that's derelict.
Government workers must work without getting paid. House Republicans get
paid without working.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
And yet it's the humor shutdown. You can say whatever
he wants about it. Clay, I don't think that's gonna work.
I also think that the more they talk about healthcare,
hold on a second. Obamacare was supposed to make everything cheaper.
Why do we have to shovel billions and billions of
dollars into Obamacare to make it even temporarily seem solvent.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
All of us are paying way more than we were
told we would ever have to pay for healthcare to
a large extent, because Obamacare has failed, and this idea
that your insurance was going to be cheaper, or you
were going to have more flexibility when it came to
your doctors. It has been proven to be I think
(11:05):
a complete and total lie, and so everybody out there
who is dealing and I think it's all of us
when you have to go to the doctor and you
get back your bill and you say, how in the
world could it possibly have cost this much? Or how
can my insurance premiums have risen to the level that
they have. Obamacare has actually made as many people argued
that would be the case, everything more expensive and worse
(11:28):
than it would be if we had never fiddled with
it at all, and in fact kind of ties in
with this. I can't believe I'm going to give him
credit here what John Stewart said about Bernie Sanders. The
Democrat solution is always subsidies, and when the government causes
endless funds to be spent, John Stewart's actually making sense here.
Prices rise, This was cut fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The Democratic solutions have never been to directly provides. It's
always been a subsidy.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
The absolutely rital man.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But what happens is when the government promises endless funds
to insurance companies or private universities without any cost controls.
And Trump seems to understand this price has rised far
beyond the rate of inflation. And we've seen it in tuition,
and we've seen it in pharmaceutical and we've seen it
(12:23):
in healthcare. So my question is will democrats recognize the
poison pill that they've often placed into well intentioned policy.
Speaker 6 (12:35):
They don't understand basic economics. And I think, to John
Stewart's credit, he's elucidating that democrats don't understand market based
policies and get all of their prescriptions wrong, which ends
up costing us all more.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Let's play the Bernie response to that. On the other
side of this. You can have Bernie Sanders, it's gonna
be like, but the more we spent comes from the
millionaires and the billion is it's it gonna be something
like that. There's gonna be some yes, non psychic I
like your argument. I think that is likely to be proven. Sure, yeah,
I don't know what it is. I'm just guessing, but
economic illiterate Bernie Sanders is going to have some foolish
(13:11):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis, buck Sexton. Show Buck predicted
that after John Stewart pointed out that democrats big problem
was they don't understand basic economics and everything they claim
is going to make everything more affordable actually makes things
more expensive, that Bernie will likely respond and say billionaires
(14:54):
are to blame. Let's find out cut sixteen.
Speaker 9 (14:56):
We have got to make it simple. In the wealthiest
country in the history of the world world. Should healthcare
be a huven right, Yes it should be. Should we
have the best quality education in the world from childcare
to graduate school, yes we should.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Right, But these are these are how do you have
Let's get there.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
What we need is a very simple, straightforward agenda which says,
by the way, and this is this is really just
STI Key point you gotta finally say to the oligous
who have never ever had.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
It so good to make a money hand over.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Fist, all right, and you got to say to them, sorry, guys.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
A billion dollars is enough.
Speaker 9 (15:34):
You ain't gonna have two hundred billion or three hundred billion,
try to survive.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And the a billion, you're gonna.
Speaker 9 (15:39):
Start paying your fair share of taxes.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Okay, A million is and billion is just it's always
it's this guy's the ultimate broken record has noticed he
said one hundred billion, two hundred billion, You got to
live on a billion? Does you understand what that would
actually mean?
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
How are you even going to get there? Second of all,
it would mean the destruction companies because people don't sit
on one hundred This isn't Scrooge McDuck and ductails swimming
in the vault of gold coins. People don't have one
hundred billion dollars in cash.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Ninety percent of money doesn't physically exist. And so I
wish that there had been an immediate pushback there from
John Stewart and say, okay, you always have this slogan,
everybody should pay their fair share. Billionaires often are paying,
like Elon Musk did fifty percent tax rates. When they
(16:33):
live in in California and they sell stock, what is
their fair share? Because over half of what you make
seems like way more than a fair share, particularly when
over half of Americans don't pay a single dollar in
income tax. So again, over half of all Americans don't
(16:55):
pay a dollar in federal income tax. They're also but
the tax is even worse than the tax rate on
everybody because inflation is really just a tax on everybody
that particularly hits those without assets that are getting inflated.
So this is why everything is feeling like it's more expensive,
(17:15):
and this is why you know, wages are not keeping up,
and all the challenges that a lot of people speak
about in general terms economically play worse. The government, the
federal government of which Bernie Sanders is a part in
the Senate, spends more than it takes in, even at
the current tax rates.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
So this idea that if they took.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
In more money they wouldn't also be adding on top
of that the debasement of our currency is absurd. They
would just take in more money and spend more money
than they're even taking in, because that's.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
What they always do.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
And there aren't enough billionaires to balance the budget, meaning
that eventually what they do to the richest trickles down
to everybody else as well.
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Welcome back into cli Buck. We're joined by Senator Marshall Blackburn. Now,
Senator Blackburn, thank you for making the time for Thank.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You're making time.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
Oh I'm delighted to join you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Let's start with some shutdown talk, if we can, Senator,
the heck is going on here with these Democrats. They
had their little silly no Kings rallies, so they made
it seem like they have something to say other than
Trump is bad, although that's really the same thing, Trump
is bad, No Kings, little childish whatever. But now the
government's been closed, I think twenty one days, what's going
(19:31):
to happen here? Are they going to blink? Are they
going to finally give up? What do you see going on?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Some of the Democrats are beginning to say, well, we
need to bring an end to this, and then you've
got Chuck Schumer saying, well, we did the No Kings
and now if we vote to reopen the government, it's
going to look like we are giving in and caving in.
And oh, By the way, the notices on the Obamacare
premiums are going to go out November first, and we
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will to keep it shut to then. I think the
important thing that we need to remember is this, what
they are wanting to do is to supercharge Obamacare. You know,
in the beginning when they did Obamacare, they said this
was a step toward a single payer system, government run healthcare,
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and this has been their goal.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
So what we have to.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Do is realize that is their goal and we can't
let them continue with these enhance COVID credit premiums where
they took off the caps and anybody that was in
the marketplace got a subsidie.
Speaker 6 (20:44):
We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn. I think based on
the background there, you may still be at the White House.
President Trump came out and spoke for some time. There's
also been a press conference with Senate Republicans there. What
did you learn today? What's the what should we know?
It looks like a beautiful day in Washington. Also about
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the changes that President Trump has made to the White House.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
You know, Clay, we were in the Rose Garden for
lunch and had a wonderful time with him. We're on
our way back to the Capitol right now to vote.
It was a very upbeat lunch. We were delighted to
have some time with the President to talk about what
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is taking place as we are in this shutdown, to
talk about our concerns for making certain that the troops
are going to be tended to that women and infants
and children are going to get the benefits that they need,
and talk about the importance of getting the government reopened
so we can return to the appropriations process. And we've
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done great work in the Senate. Our Appropriate Committee has
all our bills ready to go to the floor. Three
of them are already finished and are ready to go
into conference with the House, and regular order would be
a very good thing. Getting onto a Republican budget instead
of a Biden COVID era budget is something that's important.
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Part of the silliness of this whole thing with the
Democrats is that they have already voted five times for
these funding levels, not once or twice, but five times,
and now they're saying, well, they're so full of hatred
for Donald Trump, they're trying to make excuses and then
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not vote to reopen the government.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Senator Blackburn, Trump spoke a bit about Russ Vought going
after some spending that this administration thinks is graceful taxpayer
dollars not going to good effect. Can speaks with any
specificity to some of what those programs are, what is
able to be done in terms of cutting during this period,
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because Trump has referred to it many times, and he
gave really a big high five to OMB Director Director
Vaught earlier today.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Yes he did, and Ruts was there at lunch with us.
There are programs, some of these programs that some of
the big blue states have wanted, some infrastructure projects that
many times conservatives have questioned the usefulness or appropriateness of
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using taxpayer dollars for some of these programs. And indeed
there's the opportunity to cut and eliminate those There's the
opportunity to eliminate some of these jobs, like over at
the IRS. And I was seated with Secretary Besant at
the lunch. I'm glad he is overseeing the IRS. But
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you know, that is where you can begin to cut
the fat out of some of these government programs. And
I commit to kind of being like Goge on steroids,
where you can say this is wasteful. The other is
wasteful government shutdowns. We have to be careful with the resources,
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and so these programs and things that are not necessary
can be eliminated, and it is part of the president's
prerogative during a government shut down to remove those programs.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
In the background, we can hear what sounds like an
emergency going off.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Well, actually it is the motorcade. You're going from the
side house back to the Capitol for the vote. So
you're getting this in real time.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Well, so, I was just going to say, it made
me think about the President calling out the National Guard
not only in Washington, DC, but also in Memphis. And
so you have unique opportunity to see it happen in
both places because you spend a lot of time in Washington,
d C. And also you have traveled and represent Memphis.
(25:15):
What have you heard from people about the impact the
safety do you see it? Do you feel it that
the President's call up of the National Guard and the
State Guard has had.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I'd have to tell you. In Memphis and Shelby County,
and I was there twice last week, people come up
to me and say thank you so much. They know
that I've worked very hard on this. Senator Haggarty has
worked very hard on this also, and one of the
things that I have put a lot of energy into
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is drawing the attention of Cash Bettel and Pam Bondi
and the President to what we need in Shelby County
and Memphis. The Mayor of Memphis has done a great
job working with us. People are thrilled that Memphis is safe.
We're going to make certain that Memphis is the safest
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city in the United States and that they lose this
moniker of having been the most dangerous for capita. We
also feel like with things going so well in Memphis
and the governor and the Guard and the Highway Patrol
and the TBI and thirteen federal agencies all working together,
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that we can show what we did in Memphis and
that can be the model for fighting crime all across
the country and Memphis right at twelve hundred gang members
have been apprehended. Most of those gang kingpins have been apprehended.
(26:58):
You've got sixty missing children that have been rescued. You've
got two hundred and twenty seven illegal firearms that have
been pulled off the streets. And that is what has
happened in the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Senator Blackbird, appreciate you being with us. Thanks so much,
you got it.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Take care back, Clay.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I think if the if the crime program bears the
kind of results that we're hoping it does, this could
be one of the big, one of the big wins
for the Trump for the Trump presidency, for the Trump administration,
because it will break through this idea that Democrat controlled
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cities can just be lawless crime hell holes for fifty
years on end, with no one ever stopping to say,
maybe we should do something differently here.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yeah, And it reminds me of the border because we
heard for so long if Congress can act, then it
doesn't act, and how could we ever shut down the border,
and then Trump just shut down the border? And there
is an element I think when you see the crime
collapse in Washington, DC and in Memphis, that we've just
come to tolerate this and we don't have to. And yes,
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why would the precedent that's brought to bear and both
of those cities not also be used other places? It
seems like this could be really potentially transformative in a
positive way for everybody of all different backgrounds. Since as
we have talked about on this program for a long time.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We are
closing the Tuesday edition of the pro Almost man almost
forgot what day of the week it is. Already we'll
be I wanted to say this off the top. We
will be in Fort Wayne, Indiana tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (30:12):
If you are.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
Listening to us on WOO right now, whoa WO dot
com for the details about that visit and they are
doing a post show gathering. Woa WO dot com for
the details. We travel all over the place and we
are looking forward to meeting those of you at that
big one hundred year anniversary celebration of that station. Again
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woa WO dot com if you are listening to us
right there and you want to be at our event.
All right, we got a bunch of people who want
to weigh in.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I say this will be my This will be my
third trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
But there is a veteran of Fort Wayne, Indiana I
have never been. We will be there all day tomorrow.
WOO dot com if you want to come hang out
with us post show. Jeff in Phoenix, let's take some
of your calls well Rack and stack him to close
out the show today. Thank y'all for calling Jeff. What
you got.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Hey?
Speaker 11 (31:09):
Regarding the free speech thing. The company I work for,
nice some guy within roughly a week of when Charlie
Kirk got killed was terminated from the company. My boss
pulls us all into a quick impromptu conference call. He goes,
please be careful what you say on social media, and
he specifically mentioned Facebook. I'm like, what was.
Speaker 12 (31:32):
Said, who said it?
Speaker 11 (31:33):
And we all know who said it, but we don't
know what was said. So I'm all about free speech,
but consequences are coming, guys.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Yeah, no doubt. Look, I mean I think everybody has
to be aware. In fact, I think this is California.
We talked about the Chicago public school teacher, but this
is going viral right now. Another teacher. This is audio,
but the video is out there of a public school
teacher celebrating Charlie kirk assassination.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
This is what.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
You can hear it a little bit there. They're chanting
Charlie Kirk in favor of him. Those are kids and
this teacher is chanting is dead, is dead, celebrating Crazy
Tom in Florida fire away.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
For forty years, and the stuff I saw during that
period of time was incredible. I know one thing. When
a person reaches the rock bottom, they go one of
two ways. They get help and survive, they keep going
and they die. New York is in the same situation.
They've just about hit rock bottom, and if they put
mom Donnie in, they are going to hit rock bottom.
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And they can only go one of two ways. They
can start voting differently and get help for themselves. They
can collapse and hopefully for them, a Democrat will get
elected and bail them out, because that's their only hope
to These morons keep voting the same way all the time,
and they can fiction and regret it, but I kind
of hope it sort of happens. They need to get
there and get this help.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Buck, you live through it. Things are just not bad
enough in New York City for somebody like Giuliani to
come in and be the savior.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Well, this is this is where you when you look
at the historical comparisons. When Giuliani came in, I should
say after a few years of Dinkins. When Guliani came in,
you had an incredibly high murder rate, yes, right, and
so that was even the communists at some point are
(33:33):
saying there are too many people being shot on the
streets of New York. And when I say too many,
over two thousand. Yeah, okay, murders. So you got to
think how many thousands of people were shot on top
of that. I mean, it was really out of control.
New York now has, for a city of its size,
a pretty low murder rate, actually American you know system
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not obviously, you know, Taiwanese or something where they have
almost no murders, very low murder rate. And so the
stuff that we're really talking about is quality of life issues,
you know, trash on the streets, illegals piling in, taking
over whole hotels, people acting like maniacs on the subway,
(34:16):
and a lot of libs will tell themselves, you know,
that's a price other people are going to pay. It
makes me feel good about myselves. While the drivers putting
up the partition on the way to the Hamptons to
vote for this stuff. And a lot of a lot
of left wingers will even tell themselves no matter what happens,
Clay Real Mom Donnism has never been tried. They these
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people don't learn their lessons.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
It is the point Positive News will take a couple
more year calls to finish the show. There are a
lot of polls rolling in as we get close to
Virginia and New Jersey elections. Jason Miaraz, who we had
on last week, I believe or the week before last,
the Virginia Attorney general candidate is surging. And Jay Jones,
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who said in text messages, I hope these Republicans' kids die.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
We may have seen.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Something where normal people say, ah, that's maybe a bit
too far, as his chances are collapsing. And one thing
one wonders, as they called in Barack Obama to campaign,
whether that is also starting to have an impact on
the governor's race, because Spanberger has not called for Jay
Jones to drop out yet. Dave and Gilminton, New Hampshire, Dave,
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what you got for us?
Speaker 10 (35:35):
I wanted to make a comment about the New York's
Post assertion that if Slee were to drop out, he
could save New York City from Mondami by increasing Cuomo's
chances of winning the mayoral race. Understand this. Cuomo's political
aspirations do not end with being mayor of New York City.
He wants to use it as a springboard to be
the party nominee for president in twenty twenty eight. And
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why would Republicans want to do anything to help him
do that because he'll be touted as the moderate Democrat.
I'm with Clay, New York City needs to suffer the
pain of electing a communist so that the rest of
the country can see the Democrats had a chance to
move to the center after Trump one in twenty four
and instead they're moving further left. And what they're doing
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in New York City with Mom Damie is what they
want to do for the rest of the country. To
the rest of the country. Once that realization is made,
then our constitutional republic is safe for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
We have such excellent, excellent callers, you know, fantastic. Okay,
listen to good radio hosts all day and they pick
something up from it, you know, and I.
Speaker 6 (36:39):
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