November 24, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 1 of today’s Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a packed lineup of major political and cultural stories as we head into Thanksgiving week. Clay returns from Italy and shares behind-the-scenes details of his meeting with the Pope, including a surprising plan for the Holy Father to throw out the first pitch at a future Chicago White Sox game. The hour dives deep into the headline-grabbing Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City’s incoming mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Clay and Buck analyze Trump’s strategic, upbeat tone during the meeting, highlighting his congratulatory remarks and willingness to work together for a “safe and strong New York.” They discuss why Trump avoided confrontation, the political optics, and what this means for crime policy in America’s largest city. Buck breaks down the role of NYPD leadership under Jessica Tisch and contrasts Eric Adams’ crime reduction record with concerns about Momani’s progressive agenda. Listeners also get an urgent update on a high-stakes congressional race in Tennessee’s 7th District, which Clay calls his home district. Democrats are pouring millions into this special election scheduled for December 2, hoping low Republican turnout during the holiday season will flip a Trump +20 seat. Clay warns that the Democratic candidate, Aftyn Behn, has an extreme record—supporting defunding police, cheering riots, and even chasing ICE agents—while Republicans must mobilize early voting to prevent a major upset. This race could become a national narrative ahead of the midterms, making turnout critical. The hour closes with breaking legal news: a judge dismisses DOJ cases against James Comey and Letitia James on procedural grounds, sparking debate over judicial bias and the future of these indictments.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Monday edition. Happy early Thanksgiving week to all
of you. I am Clay Travis, he is Buck Sexton.
We will be with you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of the
week taking you into Thanksgiving. I know that many of
you have probably already begun your Thanksgiving travels. You are
on the road, you are headed to airport's record number
(00:28):
of American travelers expected all time for Thanksgiving this week,
So we want all of you to stay safe, but
we also want to entertain and inform all of you
as we are rolling this week. I'm back from Italy.
Amazing time over there. We'll probably have some fun discussing
all of that. But Buck, there are a ton of
(00:52):
what I would say are pretty significant stories that are
out there that have happened in the last seventy two
hours or so. I think Trump Mom Donnie Brofest happened
right after you would have gone off the air on Friday,
if I'm remembering the timing correctly. We need to dive
into that. We have got Marjorie Taylor Green out of
(01:15):
kind of nowhere announcing that she was going to be
leaving Congress, and we've got a really significant race that
is taking place in actually my congressional district in the
state of Tennessee. It is the last race that will
happen basically before the midterms next year. Matt van Epps,
(01:38):
if you are listening to me in the Nashville area,
will be on with us a little bit after the
top of the next hour. We're also going to talk
with our friend Kaylee mcadaney.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
All that on the way.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But Matt van Epps is running against a crazy left
wing they're calling her the AOC of Tennessee, and we
will play some of those cuts. And the biggest challenge there,
buck is a lot of people are not aware that
this election is taking place a week from right after
Thanksgiving on December second. So Democrats are really good. Their
(02:12):
base always knows whenevery regularly.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Unscheduled.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's just kind of an oxymoron, but an unscheduled race
is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
A lot of Republicans. You're out there working, you're traveling
for Thanksgiving. Early voting is underway in the Tennessee seventh
Congressional District. But they're spending a ton of money I
watched college football all weekend, Buck. They were running ads
throughout the entire day's games. The amount of money the
DNC is in the streets, knocking on doors a lot.
(02:45):
They are gambling. They are hoping that Republicans just don't
show up in the measures that usually happen in midterms
or certainly in presidential election cycles. This is a Trump
plus twenty district. This is my district.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Will dive into this a bit, but we'll circle back
around to it in a moment.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Were you as blown away by the Trump Mam Donnie
Brofest as I was? Or did you kind of expect
that this is what would happen. I'm just gonna say
I nailed it. I said this on product.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I said he's gonna be very chummy and friendly, and
Trump's gonna seize the moment. He's gonna be very He's
going to be very trump Like. He's not going to
have anything other than a smile on his face about this,
because he, I think, gains nothing by coming out guns blazing,
so to speak with Mom Donnie. At this stage, why
(03:41):
not say he's rooting for New York's success. Why not
say he's willing to extend a hand, and that way,
when Mam Donnie completely messes everything up, Trump can look
at him and say, I tried, I offered, I was
there for him. But also Mam Donnie is good at
exactly this, the grip and grin, the smile for the cameras,
the I will talk around the issues, but be somewhat
(04:05):
charming in his Mom Donnie way, and so everything. When
I watched this on Friday, Karen, happened right when we went.
When I went off the air, you were out Friday,
and Karen and I were watching the whole thing, and
it was exactly, honestly, was exactly as I thought it
would be. It was even pretty funny that the reporters
tried to debate Trump into taking some swipes at Mom
(04:25):
Donnie over things that he had said. You know, he
called you a fascist, and Trump was like, eh, no,
big deal, very Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, he said I've been called worse, I believe when
he was said, hey, you know he called you a despot,
and he just kind of shrugged it all off and said,
I don't think this is very significant in terms of
in terms of what was going on there. And look,
I think the biggest the biggest thing that is going
(04:57):
to come out here is what's play a couple of
these cuts.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Maybe here's cut two. Here's Trump saying we have one
thing in common. We both want New York City to
do very well. Here's cut too.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I wanted to congratulate the mayor.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
He really ran an incredible race against you know, a
lot of smart people, starting with the early primaries, against
some very tough people, very smart people, and he beat him,
and he beat him easily, and I congratulated him. And
we talked about some things in very strong common like
housing and getting housing built, and food and prices and
(05:32):
the price of oil is coming way down.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Anything I do is going to be good for New York.
But I just want to congratulate. I think you're going
to have, hopefully a really great mayor.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The better he.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Does, the happier I am.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I will say, there's no difference in party, there's no
difference in anything. And we're going to be helping him
to make everybody's dream come true having a strong and
very safe New York. And congratulations, mister mayor.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Breaking this present, Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now one more thing, I thought this was the funniest
part of the whole meeting was when Trump is asked
When Mamdannie is asked about calling Trump a fascist, Trump
just says, you can just go ahead and say yes.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And here is what that sounded like.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I thought probably the funniest part, and for many of you,
probably the part of this entire process, where you just
said they don't believe any of the things they say
about Trump, and Trump knows that to be true.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Here was cut seven their meeting, verifying your answers.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Just you and must and he asked about your comment
column President a fascist and your answer was, but Prsident.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Trump and I have been clear about our positions in
our views. Are you affirmed that you think President Trump's
a fascist?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I've spoken about Okay, It's it's easier than explaining a pedal, but.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You can go ahead and say yes. Okay, So you
predicted this buck. A lot of people out there are
upset that there was not fireworks between the two eight
hundred and two A two two eight A two. Maybe
some of New Yorkers wanted it, but I agree with you.
I kind of expected them to get along. This is
how Trump typically behaves. The Zelensky sort of situation is
(07:16):
actually the rarity as opposed to the expected outcome. Well,
this is expected, I think, Clay, because what would be
what would be the benefit of Trump getting aggressive with
Mamdanni before he's even taken office.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We don't know what he's going to do. In fact,
if anything, it would any for anyone who is trying
to observe this and make a determination about whether Mamdanni
is in fact a lunatic commy in terrible news for
New York or not, for anyone who's still somewhat open
minded about how this whole thing is going to go.
Trump jumping the gun and acting like Mam Donnie's already
(07:51):
messed everything up would seem unfair.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Again, to us, we're prepared, we know what's going to
happen here. But I'm saying if you're watching this saying, well,
let's give him a chance, you know, let's see, there
was no benefit to Trump being harsh with him. And
if anything, I think you could argue it's something of
the art of the deal where Trump is opening up
the possibility down the line for at least on a
few things, maybe Mom Donni will actually be less crazy
(08:18):
than anticipated. I wouldn't bet money on it. But if
the door is open there you could see I think
on immigration clay and this would be my sense of
where this is going. I think Mum Donnie is a
hard line will not ice, will not get any cooperation
for the NYPD. He will speak out against all the
deportation stuff. I think that's an absolute unchangeable maniacs hurting
(08:42):
people in the streets, you know, clubbing old ladies with
lead pipes after they've already been arrested fifty seventy eighty times.
Maybe Mam Donnie's not gonna want to go as far
in that direction as some of his rhetoric has led us.
That's the only possible silver lining that I could see
from Mam Donnie as and Trump is saying, look, if
you want to be a big boy and you want
(09:02):
to play the right way, I'm here to help. The
most significant thing Mamdanni has done since he won the election.
And you know her because you grew up around her.
We worked together at the NYPD in she was Incounter
Terrorism Division and I was in Intel Division. When I
say work together, we were in different offices but technically
the same umbrella organization in theory Jessica Tish is going
(09:26):
to remain in control of overall NYPD related issues if
the mayor just kind of gets out of the way
and lets her do the job. Which is the big
question right to what extent is he going to allow
the policies that are in place right now, because I
do think this is one of the parts of the
job that Eric Adams deserves substantial credit for. He has
(09:48):
actually managed to reverse much of the crime surge that
we saw in the wake of COVID, when everybody just decided, oh,
it's a racist if we decide to try to put
people behind bars or if we actually enforce the law.
All of that has come back pretty substantially. And so
the question is is that going to be allowed to
(10:09):
continue or is it going to be a case where
he allows the left wingers to decide, for instance, that
the enforcement of the crime that the rest of criminals
and putting him behind bars is not going to be
allowed to occur. Let me give a I think I
mentioned this on the show before, but in my home
(10:30):
city of Nashville, we're on track right now, buck for
a sixty year low and violent crime. No one is
talking about Memphis Memphis is making We need to get
some people from Memphis on to tell the story. There
buck the surge of support from federal and no one
is talking about it. It's being transformative to the lives
of many people in Memphis. One of the reasons why
(10:53):
Matt Nashville is what it is, meaning it's a place
with booming real estate and there's a really good feeling
about the place. It's like the bachelorette capital of the
whole country. What are those things those like mobile bars
where you're peddling, or some pedal taverns. Pedal taverns, thank you.
They got these girls who are all like whoo all
over Nashville with you know who let the dogs out
(11:15):
and they're drinking beer and they have their Like if
you haven't been in Nashville, trust.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Me, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The number of girls in sun dresses and cowboy boots
riding around drinking alcohol in the middle of the day.
Bachelorette party capital of America.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It is.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's because it's so safe that people feel like that's
why girls are like, let's get twenty of us there.
We can all go out and party and it's not
a scary city. There are other cities where look, to
be honest, like, people don't do that in New Orleans
the way they would have even twenty thirty years ago.
Urban Street all that stuff. It's really changed. You know,
people are much more scared in some cities than they
(11:50):
used to be anyway. But Nashville is in the right,
certainly on the right side of this issue. The Memphis thing,
I think is fascinating. We should talk more about that.
But Clay I pulled up the Eric Adams numbers four
hundred and eighty eight homicides in New York, which was
the most since nineteen ninety six, and that would have
been what year, twenty twenty one, the BLM, That was
(12:11):
the BLM year, so that was pre Adams that that
was up, and it was up thirty percent from the
year before that. Now it's at a very low overall rate.
It was at three eighty six before that. Adams got
it down basically twenty seven percent. So the BLM decline,
I mean the BLM increase in the murder rate. He
brought it back down to where it was, which is
(12:33):
a very low rate. So he actually wasn't bad on
the crime ish.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yes, which that he wasn't a tish. He let her
do the job. And that's the question.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The biggest question I have about Mondani is is he
going to get in the way of success. I mean,
there are some places that have also had declines since
the BLM spike was so high that it was hard
to get you know, hard to have another year at
quite that level. But a thirty percent decline is you know,
that's that's a respectable decline over the course of four
(13:04):
years that Adams managed. So for a guy who has
like seven percent approval rating or something. You know, there
are other aspects of the city. It's really the corruption stuff,
and I think a lot of that was drummed up
by the media deciding, you know, the Turkish airlines upgrades
and stuff. A lot of that was a propaganda campaign
against him because he didn't think New York City should
(13:25):
be overrun with the illegals. He thought that actually New
Yorker should get the benefits of being in New York.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Look, I wish Eric Kimbley. I'm saying this, but I
wish Eric Adams was coming back for a second term.
We'll get into some of that. We'll continue to break
that down. Maybe some of you want to react and
the MTG A lot of people Marjorie Taylor Green didn't
see that departure coming. We'll discuss what we thought. I
haven't discussed that with Buck. I'm curious what his read
(13:52):
on it is. In the meantime, there is some positivity
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Also.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
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get your podcasts. You know, welcome back in here to
Clay and Buck. Play's in a new studio space. But
I don't think what I'm seeing relates to the studio.
And in fact, I think there's a special light around
his head, sort of like a halo. We the team,
(15:43):
we thought maybe after his meeting with the Pope, Clay
should have his own intro and theme music. Listen up, everybody, Clay,
now that you have been blessed by His Holiness the
Pope himself in person, what wisdom, what insights do you
(16:06):
have to share with all of us here. I've never
gotten to meet the Pope. I'm quite jealous, Go ahead
tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I'm quite godly, as everyone who regularly listens to
this program already knew.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So this is just a further This is just a
further endorsement of that.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I just have to say, first of all, to Ambassador
Brian Birch of the Holy See and Tilman Fertita, who
is running who is the Ambassador of Italy.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We had dinner with them.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
They set this all up, and it's rare when you
just have an awesome story, which is my law school
buddy who now owns the Chicago White Sox, invited the
Pope to throw out the first pitch at a proposed
new stadium that they're working on. And I think buck
as a result of us all pulling together and doing this,
(16:59):
setting up this meeting, getting this done. He and I
talked about this a while back. He said, Hey, how
should I introduce myself? And I said, well, we should
get the.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Pope to throw out the first pitch at your brand
new baseball stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And now he's conveyed the offer. The Pope has said
that he wants to do it. He's a big White
Sox fan, and I just think it's a super awesome story,
regardless of what the background is. The idea Buck, if
I had told you last year, Hey, we're going to
have an American pope and he's just going to be
a normal dude from the South Side of Chicago in
many ways, and he's going to be a huge sports
(17:34):
fan of the White Sox, and he's going to show
up and throw out the first pitch in a few
years at a new stadium. And I got to be
a part of trying to help set that up. I mean,
that's a ridiculous story that all came together.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
The Holy Father didn't ask for a signed copy of Balls.
Somebody asked if I was going to take the Holy
Father a copy of Balls, and even I, who am
shameless when it comes to self promotion, was like, I
don't think the Holy Father needs to be getting a
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you know Clay with the halo in his head currently
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Okay, I
want to give a little bit of a lead up, Buck,
because there is a race that is going to happen
eight days from now. They are one billion percent relying
on the fact that lots of Republicans are not going
(19:26):
to show up and vote, and this is a race
that uh, the white House has gotten involved in uh
that we don't have a very substantial majority in the House. Democrats,
coming off of the win in Virginia and the win
in New Jersey are pouring money and resources like crazy
(19:46):
into this race. It is the Tennessee seventh Congressional District.
This is a big district. It stretches all the way
up to basically Fort Campbell. For many of you out
there that are in the military or have served, you know,
Fort Campbell goes all the way to the border basically
with Kentucky, runs all the way to the border with
(20:08):
Alabama on the south side. I'm in this district.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They cut Nashville into three different congressional districts.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I am in this district.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The congressman is retiring Mark green All they they are trying.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
To pull off a huge upset. And let me give
you an idea, Buck, this is a headline right now
in the Bulwark.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm reading from.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
This is the What was the initial impetus of the Bulwark.
It was like, we're the Trump Republicans, who the anti
Trump Republicans like that, the real Republicans.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That was their entire existence.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
For now they're basically just like all they do is
vote for Democrats, right, I mean they basically are a
Democrat operative. Now this is what they wrote. This is
a story up on their site. The seventh Tennessee District
is reliably publican Trump carried it by twenty two percentage
points in twenty four Green won his last two races
(21:07):
by a similar margin. It includes parts of Williamson County,
one of the wealthiest counties in the country. The Fort
Campbell Military Base also falls within the district, along with
a vast swath of rural farmland.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Perhaps most tantalizing for Democrats listen to this, A number
of MAGA fire brands live in or near the district,
like conservative sports radio personality Clay Travis, YouTuber Brett Cooper,
and right wing podcaster Candice Owens. Imagine as an example,
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the psychic shock of a Republican emerging victorious in the
movie star enclave of Beverly Hills. Tennessee seven isn't where
the two political parties tend to fight it out, but
they have poured tons of money in here, and here's
what they're relying on, and we're going to bring on
the congressman in the top of the next hour. They're
(22:03):
relying on Republicans not showing up.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Buck. You know this the crazy base of the Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Party, the people who have the most fervent Trump derangement
syndrome on the planet. They show up for dog catcher
races to vote against Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
They show up for every race.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Their base, they are going to show up and vote,
and they're trying to steal this election to try to
diminish Republican control of the House. So we got to
show up is a big deal because they're going to
use this as a if they can pull this off
as a rallying cry for the mid terms, they're going
(22:46):
to say it's a harbinger for the midterms. This shows
where the momentum is.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is and it's a It's one of these things
where even if they get close enough, they're willing to
pour all this money into it and all this resource,
all these resource in time because they feel like they're
playing with house money. They'll get money from the coasts,
they'll get the big big Democrat money will pour in
if they can steal a seat from dare I say,
(23:12):
Clay Travis's back yard my seat, which is this is
what But this is what I'm saying, like they're going
right into your kitchen and they're trying to eat your drumsticks,
my friend, they're trying to trake it right off your plate.
And h and you and and what they said Brett Cooper,
I mean, there's a bunch Tommy Lamar and Tommy texted
me over the weekend. Uh fired up about this because
(23:34):
again the election. You can go early vote right now.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
In Tennessee seven. Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And if you don't know if this is your district
and they're counting on this too, Fort Campbell, all of
you guys who were up there, who are soldiers or
who have lived in the Clarksville area, it is likely
your district.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All the way down to the border with Alabama. If
you live in that range, this is likely your district.
If you're in the Franklin area where I live, Brentwood, Nashville,
many parts of Nashville, this is your district. It's a
little bit confusing, Buck, because even in my neighborhood they
divide it by street, so some people are represented by
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one congressman, others by another, and it can be literally
it's divided in my neighborhood. So it's sometimes confusing for
people to know what district they're in. They're taking advantage
of this. If you're not sure. Worst case scenario, show
up again, this is Mark Green's district, but a lot
of you out there you may not know because the lines,
(24:32):
especially in the Nashville area, are street to street in neighborhoods.
Worst is a case scenario you show up and they say, hey,
this is not your district.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I just don't. They're trying to take advantage of us.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, you gotta go all out here, my friend, because
the Democrat media narrative is going to be not even
play Travis and and Tommy and shots at me already
in the article, right, but I'm saying if they win,
then it's going to be see how deflated Maga is.
Even these big Maga names couldn't couldn't help pull this off. Right,
(25:06):
So this, uh, this would be like if Republicans are
trying to win a congressional seat from the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
In malibu Ya Hill. Was what Borg said. I mean,
this is our base, Like, we gotta show up. I'm
fire up about this because you're right, people are gonna
attack me if this happens. They're gonna say Clay Travis
doesn't even live in a Republican district anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
This, I mean, that'll be a headline.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You gotta just you know, you gotta talk to the
guy at peg Leg Porker, who was my favorite barbecue there.
And you gotta have like a big thing, outdoor thing
a rally, and you gotta get everybody to show up.
My friend, you gotta get the you gotta get the
turnout operation in full swing. Matt Van Epps is gonna
be on with us at the top of the next hour.
I talked to him over the weekend. I'll say it
again on the air, but I told him, whatever you
(25:48):
want me to do. You want to do a rally,
you want to do an event, I will show up.
Obviously getting him on the show is substantial. I've been
sharing a bunch of the clips.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
This chick is crazy, isn't she who said she hates Nashville? Yes,
isn't that How do run if you hate a place?
I don't understand this. Actually, no, that's what democrats do.
They want powers, they can destroy the places they live.
But she was on MSNBC. I need to pull up
the sound bites. Do we have a couple of these
things just to kind of give you a sense of
how crazy this chick is. Here she was on MSNBC
(26:22):
buck This is MSNBC. She didn't just say she wanted
to defund the police. She said she wanted to shut
down the Metro Nashville Police Department. She also said she
supported people burning down police stations. MSNBC asked her about
this This is MSNBC cut sixteen.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
You said in those sins deleted tweets that the Metropolitan
Nashville Police Department should be dissolved. Another shared on a
teachers union saying that defund the police should be a
requirement for schools reopening, and another saying good morning, especially
to the fifty four percent of Americans that believe burning
down a police is justified. Do you still stand by
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those comments and if not, is there anything you want
to clarify?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I'm not going to engage in kiber news talking points, so.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You don't want to clarify whether you still believe that
the police should be defunded.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Once again, I don't remember these tweets, but I'm what
I'm saying is.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Is that I'm not asking you if you remember, what
is your position?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Today.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
How's that on this issue.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
I mean, once again, I'm here to talk about my race,
which is in literally nine days.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Clay, Clay, this chick is insane. If you guys cannot,
you cannot allow this to happen. You have to get
everybody out.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's MSNBC asking her, do you still support defunding the police?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
She cheered on the burning down of police stations.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I mean, look, there are democrats out there where you
talk and you're like, man, I don't agree with these perspectives.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
This chick is.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I'm trying to avoid cursing crazy. She is absolutely insane.
So again they're counting on their base of crazies. Think
about how crazy she is. She won't even walk back
saying that she wants to defund the police. I think
we listened to this ad two Buck she chased ice
agents around in Nashville to try to keep them from
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being able to do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I believe this is cut fifteen. Listen, aften Ba says,
I'm a very radical person. So radical.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Bane thinks rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The Worst Bang went on a midnight joy ride, harassing
ice officers and state troopers.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
This is great.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
We've got our girl flaught and we're bullying the ice.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sample and state troopers. So this is like unhuged and
it's really scary. Stop aften banged so radical, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
This is real. Yeah, I don't even I have never
heard have you met anyone or heard of anyone before
named Afton? I didn't know this was a name. She's
a rich kid from East Tennessee who went to rich
private schools. She's thirty five, I think, unmarried. She is
the quintessential crazy left wing. She's a white left wing
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chick that's been able to support herself in the upper
upper echelons of society with money made by other people
her entire life, and has no idea how the real
world actually works and has insane ideas that would destroy civilization.
Also known as the base of the Democrat Party. Cool good.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They're going to show up and vote for her. They're
going to show up and vote for her. This chick
makes Kamala Harris seem conservative. And Kamala Harris showed up
and tried to campaign for her, but she didn't want
to be seen with Kamala Harris, which is funny in
and of itself because there are a lot of people
in Nashville who are not big fans of Kamala Harris.
So my point on this, and we're gonna have Congressman
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Van Epps again. Early voting is going on right now.
They are pouring resources into this district like crazy, because
the insane left d wing aften Bane like thirty five
year old white women who have lost their minds. They've
already voted. They're showing up and this district again, it's
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a Trump district, but they think that Republicans aren't going
to show up because it's a December. Second, it's in
the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is not ideal timing.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Are you are?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Are you getting Tommy all fired up over this? And
Candice lives in this area and.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
They're gonna have I'm gonna have a rally. Maybe you're out.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
You got to call the Avengers, buddy. You cannot allow
them to take it. You cannot allow them to take
this this congressional seat.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No, we got to get everybody together. I mean, this
is I went on Friday with Waar Ingram and talked
about it. I mean, this is gonna be I think
a lead story nationwide over the next week. And uh again,
I'm just trying to wake people up because I think
a lot of people out there are not aware. I mean,
how often do you vote for a congressional seat on
December second.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Well, this is also why Democrats think that they can
pull this off, right, because everyone's going to be in
their turkey coma too much on Thanksgiving and you might
be on vote some of you are not going to
be back for by December second.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So if you're listening to me right now, go vote
early right now. If you're not going to be back
and buck. The reason they think it is they looked at.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The total turnout in the primary, and there were only
about five thousand more Republicans who showed up in the
primary than Democrats. And so they looked at that and said,
wait a minute. If we pour money in here, we
can win this thing. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
say it. I'm gonna put a marker down here for
all our all of our Nashville area audience. Clay, you
don't go and vote on this thing. No cobbler for you,
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Speaker 1 (33:05):
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We
have some breaking news that we're gonna get into. Although Clay,
do we have a Congress and Van app right up
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next because we've.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Got but we can talk.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, we can talk at one thirty certainly about this
with Kaylee mcainaaney legally, so we've.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Got a judge has dismissed the DOJ cases against James
Comy and Letitia James dismissed both cases. Look, I've been
telling you all along that James Comy, there's if you
have a lib judge, if you have a lib anything,
a lib on the jury, they're just not gonna let
him go to prison. He's like a He's like Fauci
to them. He's like a symbol of their political identity.
(34:01):
So we'll get into more of the details, but that's
that's a pretty frustrating.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Let me just explain exactly what's going on here. Succinctly,
the judge says that that Lindsay Halligan was not appropriately
appointed as a US attorney, and therefore he is saying
that the indictments from the grand jury are invalid as
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a result of that, And.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Again this will be appealed.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
This will continue, but he says that Lindsay Halligan is
unlawfully serving in the role.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is super nerdy, but this.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Is going to be appealed, and the question will be
it does Lindsey Halligan have the authority to be acting
as the US attorney because she was the presiding attorney
who brought these charges and got the indictments from the
grand jury. So this is not saying that the underlying
(35:03):
indictments are invalid. Or that there aren't criminal allegations that
have been have been indicted properly.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It is saying that the judge.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
The judge is saying that Halligan didn't have the authority
to be able to bring these uh bring these charges.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So this is really in the weeds. Again.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
It doesn't go to the legitimacy of the charges themselves.
It goes to whether the US attorney who brought the
charges was properly vested with the authority to be doing so.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
But it also goes to I think how much the
judge here just wants to make these things go away?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well totally right.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I mean, this is they're gonna throw every procedural block,
everything they have at this. I think there's no question.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Let's do uh.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Sean and Queens calling in, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Sean talk about Trump and ma'mdan. I wasn't expecting Trump
to be like some rude you know, you know whatever
in the overworldness with mom Donnie.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
What I wasn't expecting was for our president man who
I support fevershly, to tell me as a New Yorker
that he's going to be a good mayor, knowing he
is a Marxist communist.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
I was not expecting my president to lavish this radical
Islamic sympathizer, this anti semi, this racist, this Marxist communists
the way he did in.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
The Overlaws for the world to witness. He told us
US conservatives might be surprised by the.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
Things he's gonna do.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
The man is a Marxist communist. There is nothing he
can do that I'm gonna say. Hey, yeah, go on, mom, Donnie, Like,
what are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Man, John?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I think a lot of We're at time show. I
just say, I think a lot of New Yorkers are
frustrated honestly as well with that. But I'll also tell
you this. I told you guys, this is how Trump
is on the big stage in a big moment. He's
going for the glamour, the lights, the.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
All that.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Slay. Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome to today's edition of The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Monday edition. Happy early Thanksgiving week to all
of you. I am Clay Travis, he is Buck Sexton.
We will be with you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of the
week taking you into Thanksgiving. I know that many of
you have probably already begun your Thanksgiving travels. You are
on the road, you are headed to airport's record number
(00:28):
of American travelers expected all time for Thanksgiving this week,
So we want all of you to stay safe, but
we also want to entertain and inform all of you
as we are rolling this week. I'm back from Italy.
Amazing time over there. We'll probably have some fun discussing
all of that. But Buck, there are a ton of
(00:52):
what I would say are pretty significant stories that are
out there that have happened in the last seventy two
hours or so. I think Trump Mom Donnie Brofest happened
right after you would have gone off the air on Friday,
if I'm remembering the timing correctly. We need to dive
into that. We have got Marjorie Taylor Green out of
(01:15):
kind of nowhere announcing that she was going to be
leaving Congress, and we've got a really significant race that
is taking place in actually my congressional district in the
state of Tennessee. It is the last race that will
happen basically before the midterms next year. Matt van Epps,
(01:38):
if you are listening to me in the Nashville area,
will be on with us a little bit after the
top of the next hour. We're also going to talk
with our friend Kaylee mcadaney.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
All that on the way.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
But Matt van Epps is running against a crazy left
wing they're calling her the AOC of Tennessee, and we
will play some of those cuts. And the biggest challenge there,
buck is a lot of people are not aware that
this election is taking place a week from right after
Thanksgiving on December second. So Democrats are really good. Their
(02:12):
base always knows whenevery regularly.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Unscheduled.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It's just kind of an oxymoron, but an unscheduled race
is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
A lot of Republicans. You're out there working, you're traveling
for Thanksgiving. Early voting is underway in the Tennessee seventh
Congressional District. But they're spending a ton of money I
watched college football all weekend, Buck. They were running ads
throughout the entire day's games. The amount of money the
DNC is in the streets, knocking on doors a lot.
(02:45):
They are gambling. They are hoping that Republicans just don't
show up in the measures that usually happen in midterms
or certainly in presidential election cycles. This is a Trump
plus twenty district. This is my district.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Will dive into this a bit, but we'll circle back
around to it in a moment.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Were you as blown away by the Trump Mam Donnie
Brofest as I was? Or did you kind of expect
that this is what would happen. I'm just gonna say
I nailed it. I said this on product.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I said he's gonna be very chummy and friendly, and
Trump's gonna seize the moment. He's gonna be very He's
going to be very trump Like. He's not going to
have anything other than a smile on his face about this,
because he, I think, gains nothing by coming out guns blazing,
so to speak with Mom Donnie. At this stage, why
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not say he's rooting for New York's success. Why not
say he's willing to extend a hand, and that way,
when Mam Donnie completely messes everything up, Trump can look
at him and say, I tried, I offered, I was
there for him. But also Mam Donnie is good at
exactly this, the grip and grin, the smile for the cameras,
the I will talk around the issues, but be somewhat
(04:05):
charming in his Mom Donnie way, and so everything. When
I watched this on Friday, Karen, happened right when we went.
When I went off the air, you were out Friday,
and Karen and I were watching the whole thing, and
it was exactly, honestly, was exactly as I thought it
would be. It was even pretty funny that the reporters
tried to debate Trump into taking some swipes at Mom
(04:25):
Donnie over things that he had said. You know, he
called you a fascist, and Trump was like, eh, no,
big deal, very Trump.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, he said I've been called worse, I believe when
he was said, hey, you know he called you a despot,
and he just kind of shrugged it all off and said,
I don't think this is very significant in terms of
in terms of what was going on there. And look,
I think the biggest the biggest thing that is going
(04:57):
to come out here is what's play a couple of
these cuts.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Maybe here's cut two. Here's Trump saying we have one
thing in common. We both want New York City to
do very well. Here's cut too.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I wanted to congratulate the mayor.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
He really ran an incredible race against you know, a
lot of smart people, starting with the early primaries, against
some very tough people, very smart people, and he beat him,
and he beat him easily, and I congratulated him. And
we talked about some things in very strong common like
housing and getting housing built, and food and prices and
(05:32):
the price of oil is coming way down.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Anything I do is going to be good for New York.
But I just want to congratulate. I think you're going
to have, hopefully a really great mayor.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
The better he.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Does, the happier I am.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I will say, there's no difference in party, there's no
difference in anything. And we're going to be helping him
to make everybody's dream come true having a strong and
very safe New York. And congratulations, mister mayor.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Breaking this present, Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Now one more thing, I thought this was the funniest
part of the whole meeting was when Trump is asked
When Mamdannie is asked about calling Trump a fascist, Trump
just says, you can just go ahead and say yes.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
And here is what that sounded like.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I thought probably the funniest part, and for many of you,
probably the part of this entire process, where you just
said they don't believe any of the things they say
about Trump, and Trump knows that to be true.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Here was cut seven their meeting, verifying your answers.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Just you and must and he asked about your comment
column President a fascist and your answer was, but Prsident.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Trump and I have been clear about our positions in
our views. Are you affirmed that you think President Trump's
a fascist?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I've spoken about Okay, It's it's easier than explaining a pedal, but.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You can go ahead and say yes. Okay, So you
predicted this buck. A lot of people out there are
upset that there was not fireworks between the two eight
hundred and two A two two eight A two. Maybe
some of New Yorkers wanted it, but I agree with you.
I kind of expected them to get along. This is
how Trump typically behaves. The Zelensky sort of situation is
(07:16):
actually the rarity as opposed to the expected outcome. Well,
this is expected, I think, Clay, because what would be
what would be the benefit of Trump getting aggressive with
Mamdanni before he's even taken office.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
We don't know what he's going to do. In fact,
if anything, it would any for anyone who is trying
to observe this and make a determination about whether Mamdanni
is in fact a lunatic commy in terrible news for
New York or not, for anyone who's still somewhat open
minded about how this whole thing is going to go.
Trump jumping the gun and acting like Mam Donnie's already
(07:51):
messed everything up would seem unfair.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Again, to us, we're prepared, we know what's going to
happen here. But I'm saying if you're watching this saying, well,
let's give him a chance, you know, let's see, there
was no benefit to Trump being harsh with him. And
if anything, I think you could argue it's something of
the art of the deal where Trump is opening up
the possibility down the line for at least on a
few things, maybe Mom Donni will actually be less crazy
(08:18):
than anticipated. I wouldn't bet money on it. But if
the door is open there you could see I think
on immigration clay and this would be my sense of
where this is going. I think Mum Donnie is a
hard line will not ice, will not get any cooperation
for the NYPD. He will speak out against all the
deportation stuff. I think that's an absolute unchangeable maniacs hurting
(08:42):
people in the streets, you know, clubbing old ladies with
lead pipes after they've already been arrested fifty seventy eighty times.
Maybe Mam Donnie's not gonna want to go as far
in that direction as some of his rhetoric has led us.
That's the only possible silver lining that I could see
from Mam Donnie as and Trump is saying, look, if
you want to be a big boy and you want
(09:02):
to play the right way, I'm here to help. The
most significant thing Mamdanni has done since he won the election.
And you know her because you grew up around her.
We worked together at the NYPD in she was Incounter
Terrorism Division and I was in Intel Division. When I
say work together, we were in different offices but technically
the same umbrella organization in theory Jessica Tish is going
(09:26):
to remain in control of overall NYPD related issues if
the mayor just kind of gets out of the way
and lets her do the job. Which is the big
question right to what extent is he going to allow
the policies that are in place right now, because I
do think this is one of the parts of the
job that Eric Adams deserves substantial credit for. He has
(09:48):
actually managed to reverse much of the crime surge that
we saw in the wake of COVID, when everybody just decided, oh,
it's a racist if we decide to try to put
people behind bars or if we actually enforce the law.
All of that has come back pretty substantially. And so
the question is is that going to be allowed to
(10:09):
continue or is it going to be a case where
he allows the left wingers to decide, for instance, that
the enforcement of the crime that the rest of criminals
and putting him behind bars is not going to be
allowed to occur. Let me give a I think I
mentioned this on the show before, but in my home
(10:30):
city of Nashville, we're on track right now, buck for
a sixty year low and violent crime. No one is
talking about Memphis Memphis is making We need to get
some people from Memphis on to tell the story. There
buck the surge of support from federal and no one
is talking about it. It's being transformative to the lives
of many people in Memphis. One of the reasons why
(10:53):
Matt Nashville is what it is, meaning it's a place
with booming real estate and there's a really good feeling
about the place. It's like the bachelorette capital of the
whole country. What are those things those like mobile bars
where you're peddling, or some pedal taverns. Pedal taverns, thank you.
They got these girls who are all like whoo all
over Nashville with you know who let the dogs out
(11:15):
and they're drinking beer and they have their Like if
you haven't been in Nashville, trust.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Me, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
The number of girls in sun dresses and cowboy boots
riding around drinking alcohol in the middle of the day.
Bachelorette party capital of America.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It is.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It's because it's so safe that people feel like that's
why girls are like, let's get twenty of us there.
We can all go out and party and it's not
a scary city. There are other cities where look, to
be honest, like, people don't do that in New Orleans
the way they would have even twenty thirty years ago.
Urban Street all that stuff. It's really changed. You know,
people are much more scared in some cities than they
(11:50):
used to be anyway. But Nashville is in the right,
certainly on the right side of this issue. The Memphis thing,
I think is fascinating. We should talk more about that.
But Clay I pulled up the Eric Adams numbers four
hundred and eighty eight homicides in New York, which was
the most since nineteen ninety six, and that would have
been what year, twenty twenty one, the BLM, That was
(12:11):
the BLM year, so that was pre Adams that that
was up, and it was up thirty percent from the
year before that. Now it's at a very low overall rate.
It was at three eighty six before that. Adams got
it down basically twenty seven percent. So the BLM decline,
I mean the BLM increase in the murder rate. He
brought it back down to where it was, which is
(12:33):
a very low rate. So he actually wasn't bad on
the crime ish.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Yes, which that he wasn't a tish. He let her
do the job. And that's the question.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The biggest question I have about Mondani is is he
going to get in the way of success. I mean,
there are some places that have also had declines since
the BLM spike was so high that it was hard
to get you know, hard to have another year at
quite that level. But a thirty percent decline is you know,
that's that's a respectable decline over the course of four
(13:04):
years that Adams managed. So for a guy who has
like seven percent approval rating or something. You know, there
are other aspects of the city. It's really the corruption stuff,
and I think a lot of that was drummed up
by the media deciding, you know, the Turkish airlines upgrades
and stuff. A lot of that was a propaganda campaign
against him because he didn't think New York City should
(13:25):
be overrun with the illegals. He thought that actually New
Yorker should get the benefits of being in New York.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Look, I wish Eric Kimbley. I'm saying this, but I
wish Eric Adams was coming back for a second term.
We'll get into some of that. We'll continue to break
that down. Maybe some of you want to react and
the MTG A lot of people Marjorie Taylor Green didn't
see that departure coming. We'll discuss what we thought. I
haven't discussed that with Buck. I'm curious what his read
(13:52):
on it is. In the meantime, there is some positivity
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Also.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
We should talk about what's going on with Ukraine. But
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get your podcasts. You know, welcome back in here to
Clay and Buck. Play's in a new studio space. But
I don't think what I'm seeing relates to the studio.
And in fact, I think there's a special light around
his head, sort of like a halo. We the team,
(15:43):
we thought maybe after his meeting with the Pope, Clay
should have his own intro and theme music. Listen up, everybody, Clay,
now that you have been blessed by His Holiness the
Pope himself in person, what wisdom, what insights do you
(16:06):
have to share with all of us here. I've never
gotten to meet the Pope. I'm quite jealous, Go ahead
tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Well, I'm quite godly, as everyone who regularly listens to
this program already knew.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So this is just a further This is just a
further endorsement of that.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I just have to say, first of all, to Ambassador
Brian Birch of the Holy See and Tilman Fertita, who
is running who is the Ambassador of Italy.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
We had dinner with them.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
They set this all up, and it's rare when you
just have an awesome story, which is my law school
buddy who now owns the Chicago White Sox, invited the
Pope to throw out the first pitch at a proposed
new stadium that they're working on. And I think buck
as a result of us all pulling together and doing this,
(16:59):
setting up this meeting, getting this done. He and I
talked about this a while back. He said, Hey, how
should I introduce myself? And I said, well, we should
get the.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Pope to throw out the first pitch at your brand
new baseball stadium.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And now he's conveyed the offer. The Pope has said
that he wants to do it. He's a big White
Sox fan, and I just think it's a super awesome story,
regardless of what the background is. The idea Buck, if
I had told you last year, Hey, we're going to
have an American pope and he's just going to be
a normal dude from the South Side of Chicago in
many ways, and he's going to be a huge sports
(17:34):
fan of the White Sox, and he's going to show
up and throw out the first pitch in a few
years at a new stadium. And I got to be
a part of trying to help set that up. I mean,
that's a ridiculous story that all came together.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
The Holy Father didn't ask for a signed copy of Balls.
Somebody asked if I was going to take the Holy
Father a copy of Balls, and even I, who am
shameless when it comes to self promotion, was like, I
don't think the Holy Father needs to be getting a
copy of Balls from me. It's amazing. I'm not sure
you know Clay with the halo in his head currently
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Speaker 2 (19:06):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Okay, I
want to give a little bit of a lead up, Buck,
because there is a race that is going to happen
eight days from now. They are one billion percent relying
on the fact that lots of Republicans are not going
(19:26):
to show up and vote, and this is a race
that uh, the white House has gotten involved in uh
that we don't have a very substantial majority in the House. Democrats,
coming off of the win in Virginia and the win
in New Jersey are pouring money and resources like crazy
(19:46):
into this race. It is the Tennessee seventh Congressional District.
This is a big district. It stretches all the way
up to basically Fort Campbell. For many of you out
there that are in the military or have served, you know,
Fort Campbell goes all the way to the border basically
with Kentucky, runs all the way to the border with
(20:08):
Alabama on the south side. I'm in this district.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
They cut Nashville into three different congressional districts.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I am in this district.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
The congressman is retiring Mark green All they they are trying.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
To pull off a huge upset. And let me give
you an idea, Buck, this is a headline right now
in the Bulwark.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
I'm reading from.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
This is the What was the initial impetus of the Bulwark.
It was like, we're the Trump Republicans, who the anti
Trump Republicans like that, the real Republicans.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
That was their entire existence.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
For now they're basically just like all they do is
vote for Democrats, right, I mean they basically are a
Democrat operative. Now this is what they wrote. This is
a story up on their site. The seventh Tennessee District
is reliably publican Trump carried it by twenty two percentage
points in twenty four Green won his last two races
(21:07):
by a similar margin. It includes parts of Williamson County,
one of the wealthiest counties in the country. The Fort
Campbell Military Base also falls within the district, along with
a vast swath of rural farmland.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Perhaps most tantalizing for Democrats listen to this, A number
of MAGA fire brands live in or near the district,
like conservative sports radio personality Clay Travis, YouTuber Brett Cooper,
and right wing podcaster Candice Owens. Imagine as an example,
(21:42):
the psychic shock of a Republican emerging victorious in the
movie star enclave of Beverly Hills. Tennessee seven isn't where
the two political parties tend to fight it out, but
they have poured tons of money in here, and here's
what they're relying on, and we're going to bring on
the congressman in the top of the next hour. They're
(22:03):
relying on Republicans not showing up.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Buck. You know this the crazy base of the Democrat.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Party, the people who have the most fervent Trump derangement
syndrome on the planet. They show up for dog catcher
races to vote against Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
They show up for every race.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Their base, they are going to show up and vote,
and they're trying to steal this election to try to
diminish Republican control of the House. So we got to
show up is a big deal because they're going to
use this as a if they can pull this off
as a rallying cry for the mid terms, they're going
(22:46):
to say it's a harbinger for the midterms. This shows
where the momentum is.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
This is and it's a It's one of these things
where even if they get close enough, they're willing to
pour all this money into it and all this resource,
all these resource in time because they feel like they're
playing with house money. They'll get money from the coasts,
they'll get the big big Democrat money will pour in
if they can steal a seat from dare I say,
(23:12):
Clay Travis's back yard my seat, which is this is
what But this is what I'm saying, like they're going
right into your kitchen and they're trying to eat your drumsticks,
my friend, they're trying to trake it right off your plate.
And h and you and and what they said Brett Cooper,
I mean, there's a bunch Tommy Lamar and Tommy texted
me over the weekend. Uh fired up about this because
(23:34):
again the election. You can go early vote right now.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
In Tennessee seven. Okay.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
And if you don't know if this is your district
and they're counting on this too, Fort Campbell, all of
you guys who were up there, who are soldiers or
who have lived in the Clarksville area, it is likely
your district.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
All the way down to the border with Alabama. If
you live in that range, this is likely your district.
If you're in the Franklin area where I live, Brentwood, Nashville,
many parts of Nashville, this is your district. It's a
little bit confusing, Buck, because even in my neighborhood they
divide it by street, so some people are represented by
(24:12):
one congressman, others by another, and it can be literally
it's divided in my neighborhood. So it's sometimes confusing for
people to know what district they're in. They're taking advantage
of this. If you're not sure. Worst case scenario, show
up again, this is Mark Green's district, but a lot
of you out there you may not know because the lines,
(24:32):
especially in the Nashville area, are street to street in neighborhoods.
Worst is a case scenario you show up and they say, hey,
this is not your district.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I just don't. They're trying to take advantage of us.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, you gotta go all out here, my friend, because
the Democrat media narrative is going to be not even
play Travis and and Tommy and shots at me already
in the article, right, but I'm saying if they win,
then it's going to be see how deflated Maga is.
Even these big Maga names couldn't couldn't help pull this off. Right,
(25:06):
So this, uh, this would be like if Republicans are
trying to win a congressional seat from the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
In malibu Ya Hill. Was what Borg said. I mean,
this is our base, Like, we gotta show up. I'm
fire up about this because you're right, people are gonna
attack me if this happens. They're gonna say Clay Travis
doesn't even live in a Republican district anymore.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
This, I mean, that'll be a headline.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You gotta just you know, you gotta talk to the
guy at peg Leg Porker, who was my favorite barbecue there.
And you gotta have like a big thing, outdoor thing
a rally, and you gotta get everybody to show up.
My friend, you gotta get the you gotta get the
turnout operation in full swing. Matt Van Epps is gonna
be on with us at the top of the next hour.
I talked to him over the weekend. I'll say it
again on the air, but I told him, whatever you
(25:48):
want me to do. You want to do a rally,
you want to do an event, I will show up.
Obviously getting him on the show is substantial. I've been
sharing a bunch of the clips.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Buck.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
This chick is crazy, isn't she who said she hates Nashville? Yes,
isn't that How do run if you hate a place?
I don't understand this. Actually, no, that's what democrats do.
They want powers, they can destroy the places they live.
But she was on MSNBC. I need to pull up
the sound bites. Do we have a couple of these
things just to kind of give you a sense of
how crazy this chick is. Here she was on MSNBC
(26:22):
buck This is MSNBC. She didn't just say she wanted
to defund the police. She said she wanted to shut
down the Metro Nashville Police Department. She also said she
supported people burning down police stations. MSNBC asked her about
this This is MSNBC cut sixteen.
Speaker 7 (26:42):
You said in those sins deleted tweets that the Metropolitan
Nashville Police Department should be dissolved. Another shared on a
teachers union saying that defund the police should be a
requirement for schools reopening, and another saying good morning, especially
to the fifty four percent of Americans that believe burning
down a police is justified. Do you still stand by
(27:03):
those comments and if not, is there anything you want
to clarify?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Yeah, I'm not going to engage in kiber news talking points, so.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You don't want to clarify whether you still believe that
the police should be defunded.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Once again, I don't remember these tweets, but I'm what
I'm saying is.
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Is that I'm not asking you if you remember, what
is your position?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Today.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
How's that on this issue.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
I mean, once again, I'm here to talk about my race,
which is in literally nine days.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Clay, Clay, this chick is insane. If you guys cannot,
you cannot allow this to happen. You have to get
everybody out.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That's MSNBC asking her, do you still support defunding the police?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Buck?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
She cheered on the burning down of police stations.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
I mean, look, there are democrats out there where you
talk and you're like, man, I don't agree with these perspectives.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
This chick is.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
I'm trying to avoid cursing crazy. She is absolutely insane.
So again they're counting on their base of crazies. Think
about how crazy she is. She won't even walk back
saying that she wants to defund the police. I think
we listened to this ad two Buck she chased ice
agents around in Nashville to try to keep them from
(28:17):
being able to do their jobs.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I believe this is cut fifteen. Listen, aften Ba says,
I'm a very radical person. So radical.
Speaker 7 (28:25):
Bane thinks rioting is a way for people to express themselves.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
The Worst Bang went on a midnight joy ride, harassing
ice officers and state troopers.
Speaker 8 (28:34):
This is great.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
We've got our girl flaught and we're bullying the ice.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sample and state troopers. So this is like unhuged and
it's really scary. Stop aften banged so radical, it's scary.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
This is real. Yeah, I don't even I have never
heard have you met anyone or heard of anyone before
named Afton? I didn't know this was a name. She's
a rich kid from East Tennessee who went to rich
private schools. She's thirty five, I think, unmarried. She is
the quintessential crazy left wing. She's a white left wing
(29:11):
chick that's been able to support herself in the upper
upper echelons of society with money made by other people
her entire life, and has no idea how the real
world actually works and has insane ideas that would destroy civilization.
Also known as the base of the Democrat Party. Cool good.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
They're going to show up and vote for her. They're
going to show up and vote for her. This chick
makes Kamala Harris seem conservative. And Kamala Harris showed up
and tried to campaign for her, but she didn't want
to be seen with Kamala Harris, which is funny in
and of itself because there are a lot of people
in Nashville who are not big fans of Kamala Harris.
So my point on this, and we're gonna have Congressman
(29:48):
Van Epps again. Early voting is going on right now.
They are pouring resources into this district like crazy, because
the insane left d wing aften Bane like thirty five
year old white women who have lost their minds. They've
already voted. They're showing up and this district again, it's
(30:11):
a Trump district, but they think that Republicans aren't going
to show up because it's a December. Second, it's in
the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is not ideal timing.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Are you are?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Are you getting Tommy all fired up over this? And
Candice lives in this area and.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
They're gonna have I'm gonna have a rally. Maybe you're out.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
You got to call the Avengers, buddy. You cannot allow
them to take it. You cannot allow them to take
this this congressional seat.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
This is nuts.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
No, we got to get everybody together. I mean, this
is I went on Friday with Waar Ingram and talked
about it. I mean, this is gonna be I think
a lead story nationwide over the next week. And uh again,
I'm just trying to wake people up because I think
a lot of people out there are not aware. I mean,
how often do you vote for a congressional seat on
December second.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Well, this is also why Democrats think that they can
pull this off, right, because everyone's going to be in
their turkey coma too much on Thanksgiving and you might
be on vote some of you are not going to
be back for by December second.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
So if you're listening to me right now, go vote
early right now. If you're not going to be back
and buck. The reason they think it is they looked at.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
The total turnout in the primary, and there were only
about five thousand more Republicans who showed up in the
primary than Democrats. And so they looked at that and said,
wait a minute. If we pour money in here, we
can win this thing. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
say it. I'm gonna put a marker down here for
all our all of our Nashville area audience. Clay, you
don't go and vote on this thing. No cobbler for you,
(31:40):
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
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Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We
have some breaking news that we're gonna get into. Although Clay,
do we have a Congress and Van app right up
(33:29):
next because we've.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Got but we can talk.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Yeah, we can talk at one thirty certainly about this
with Kaylee mcainaaney legally, so we've.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Got a judge has dismissed the DOJ cases against James
Comy and Letitia James dismissed both cases. Look, I've been
telling you all along that James Comy, there's if you
have a lib judge, if you have a lib anything,
a lib on the jury, they're just not gonna let
him go to prison. He's like a He's like Fauci
to them. He's like a symbol of their political identity.
(34:01):
So we'll get into more of the details, but that's
that's a pretty frustrating.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Let me just explain exactly what's going on here. Succinctly,
the judge says that that Lindsay Halligan was not appropriately
appointed as a US attorney, and therefore he is saying
that the indictments from the grand jury are invalid as
(34:26):
a result of that, And.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Again this will be appealed.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
This will continue, but he says that Lindsay Halligan is
unlawfully serving in the role.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is super nerdy, but this.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Is going to be appealed, and the question will be
it does Lindsey Halligan have the authority to be acting
as the US attorney because she was the presiding attorney
who brought these charges and got the indictments from the
grand jury. So this is not saying that the underlying
(35:03):
indictments are invalid. Or that there aren't criminal allegations that
have been have been indicted properly.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
It is saying that the judge.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
The judge is saying that Halligan didn't have the authority
to be able to bring these uh bring these charges.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
So this is really in the weeds. Again.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
It doesn't go to the legitimacy of the charges themselves.
It goes to whether the US attorney who brought the
charges was properly vested with the authority to be doing so.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
But it also goes to I think how much the
judge here just wants to make these things go away?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Well totally right.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I mean, this is they're gonna throw every procedural block,
everything they have at this. I think there's no question.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Let's do uh.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Sean and Queens calling in, what's going on?
Speaker 8 (35:54):
Sean talk about Trump and ma'mdan. I wasn't expecting Trump
to be like some rude you know, you know whatever
in the overworldness with mom Donnie.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
What I wasn't expecting was for our president man who
I support fevershly, to tell me as a New Yorker
that he's going to be a good mayor, knowing he
is a Marxist communist.
Speaker 9 (36:21):
I was not expecting my president to lavish this radical
Islamic sympathizer, this anti semi, this racist, this Marxist communists
the way he did in.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
The Overlaws for the world to witness. He told us
US conservatives might be surprised by the.
Speaker 8 (36:43):
Things he's gonna do.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
The man is a Marxist communist. There is nothing he
can do that I'm gonna say. Hey, yeah, go on, mom, Donnie, Like,
what are you talking about.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Man, John?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
I think a lot of We're at time show. I
just say, I think a lot of New Yorkers are
frustrated honestly as well with that. But I'll also tell
you this. I told you guys, this is how Trump
is on the big stage in a big moment. He's
going for the glamour, the lights, the.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
All that.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
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