December 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show, guest-hosted by Brett Winterble from WBT in Charlotte, kicks off with optimism and hard-hitting analysis of America’s economic resurgence and political battles as 2025 closes. Brett opens by celebrating blockbuster economic news: U.S. GDP surged 4.3% in the third quarter, the fastest growth in two years and far above economists’ 3.2% forecast. Consumer spending also jumped 3.5%, signaling strong confidence and reinforcing President Trump’s America First economic agenda. Winterble frames this as kryptonite for Democrats, whose impeachment-focused strategy falters against robust growth and rising optimism heading into 2026.
The hour contrasts Trump’s pro-growth policies with the Biden-era failures, blasting the previous administration for prioritizing DEI initiatives and identity politics over prosperity. Brett warns that Democrats have no credible economic plan, relying instead on divisive cultural narratives and regulatory overreach. He cites the Schumer shutdown’s delay of economic reports as evidence of political gamesmanship aimed at obscuring Trump’s success. Meanwhile, Trump’s leadership is credited with restoring confidence, strengthening the military, and rewarding service members with $1,776 bonuses, a stark reversal from Biden’s controversial vaccine mandates that purged troops from the ranks.
Immigration and fraud scandals also dominate the discussion. Brett spotlights the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant linked to trafficking, after a judge blocked his deportation, calling this emblematic of Democratic priorities that undermine law enforcement and national security. He then pivots to the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal, where up to $9–18 billion was allegedly stolen from federally funded programs. In response, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks introduced the Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions (WALLS) Act, requiring HHS to investigate entitlement programs with sudden spending spikes, aiming to prevent systemic abuse and protect taxpayers.
Listeners join the conversation with sharp insights on political corruption, immigration, and cultural shifts. Brett amplifies concerns about Democratic efforts to dilute conservative influence through mass migration and identity-driven policies, citing Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s remarks praising the Somali community as an example of virtue signaling overshadowing accountability. He underscores that immigration must be legal and vetted, warning against policies that prioritize ideology over security.
The hour closes with a look ahead to Federal Reserve policy, as economist Kevin Hassett—considered a leading candidate to replace Jerome Powell—calls for aggressive interest rate cuts to sustain growth amid an AI-driven productivity boom. Brett frames this as part of Trump’s broader strategy to supercharge the economy while Democrats remain fixated on distractions like the Epstein files, which recent reports confirm contain no damaging information about Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's hurt on WBT and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Please welcome Brett Wintervile filling in for Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No place I'd rather be than with this incredible audience.
It's a pleasure to be with you in for Clay
and Buck. Our telephone number if you want to get
a lined up early eight hundred two two eight A two.
And it is such a pleasure to be with you
today with really good news, with really good economic numbers,
lots of stuff happening. There is a brand new lawmaker
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that is unveiling the Walls Act. And that's not the
walls down at the border. We're talking about the Walls
Act involving that's right, the man who would be king
in Minnesota tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But let's get started with really good news. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
If you decide at any point in time that you
think that our economy is just not the sort of
thing that you want to be involved with, well then
I don't know how to convince you. Because the fact
of the matter is the United States economy grew this summer.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So this is lagging this summer at the.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Fastest pace in two years, far outpacing economists' forecasts. The
Commerce Department said, US gross domestic product, the government's official
economic scoreboard, rose at a seasonally and inflation adjusted four
point three percent annual rate in.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The third quarter.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The report on the July through September period was delayed
due to the Schumer shutdown, But we are looking at
the numbers of this and this thing blew the doors off.
Today's blockbuster expectation smashing GDP report is the latest proof
that President Trump's America First trade and economic agenda continues
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to turn the page on the Biden economic disaster. And
more importantly, American consumers are spending and American exports are surging.
And the White House spokesperson Push Desai said, President Trump
built the greatest economic and engine in the world in
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his first term, and he's in the process of doing
it all again after it was defiled and abused and
pushed away because of all of the DEI and all
of the socialist experiments that have been happening in that
interregnum period that we know as the Biden administration. Gross
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domestic product is a broad measure of the goods and
services produced across the economy, and economists had expected that
the economy would grow at three point two percent, and
we now see that that is a much higher number
than they were even talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, I want to go back to the Schumer shutdown, because.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I'm just wondering if they were sitting back and seeing
what those numbers were looking like, and they were looking
to try to drag President Trump. They were trying to
push off all of the good news, all of the
good you know, consequences of this sort of a move,
and that's why they may have turned and walked away
and not wanted to cut the deals that needed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
To be done.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Now, consumer spending grew much faster than expected, expanding at
a seasonally inflation adjusted annual rate of three point five percent,
and that is up from the two point five percent
in the second quarter and well above, well above the
two point seven percent expected. So if you're feeling good
about this, your right to feel good. This is a
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very important notion. This is a big deal, and it's
because of the American people, not the people in Washington, DC,
not the people in the House to Senate, whatever it is.
This is because the American people are going long on
this economy. So let's break this down here for just
a couple of minutes. Okay, the number one plan that
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the Democrats have is to try to impeach and.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Destroy Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But the thing that is the kryptonite to those Democrats
is the economy continuing to surge. As long as this
economy surges, and we don't know what this is going
to look like when we get past Christmas, past New
Year's and then into that first quarter of that next
year in twenty twenty six, we may be seeing robust
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numbers that are coming to life that are going to
make it very, very difficult for the Democrats to try to.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Make a case that we have got to change.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The direction of the I have got sound bite after
sound bite after sound bite on this program that you're
going to be able to hear these people in their
own language, in their.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Own takes, and when you think about.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What they're offering up to you, it is thin, gruel.
It is not anything that you want to consume. It
is not anything that you want to be a part of,
because what you see right now is a toxic brew
of ideological identity politics and higher taxes and lower expectations.
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That is what the Democrat Party is going to do.
The Republican Party is saying, hey, we passed the big,
beautiful bill, and now it's time to get this thing
into focus and to get this thing in the important
spots that it's got to be. Now again, there are
going to be nay sayers. There are going to be
people who are going to try to tell you that
the economy.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is not good.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They did that with Reagan, they did it with Trump
in the first term, and now they're going to try
to do it in this next term. And these folks
are out of their mind. They're not ready for prime time.
They are not ready to be serious about the economy
such as we know it, and they're going to try
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to regulate and take you down in a whole lot
of different ways. So here's the question for you, knowing
these numbers coming in and hearing the reporting that's coming
in not just here on the claim Buck Show, but
also around the around the world, what are you thinking
about in this regard? Because I can tell you what
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the left is thinking about. I can tell you a
bunch of things that the left is trying to sell
to you. Let me give you an example of this.
If I may, let me give you an example. This
is what the left wants you Remember the judge called Boburg.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Remember Boseburg, who.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Is the guy that was going to spring all of
the illegals back out from Trende Arragua and all those folks. Well,
Abrego Garcia is now free again. This because a judge said, no, no,
you don't have to go back to l Salvador. You
don't have to go back to some other place. K
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Abrego Garcia, the three named man is going free.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I've got cut number eight.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Get a load of his lawyer talking about the release
that's happening. Go.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So the government gave the excuse me, the district judge
gave the government until the twenty sixth of December, that
is to say, Friday, to actually answer the question what
is your plan for mister Abrago Garcia. Are you planning
to rearrest him? If so, why will then have the
opportunity to respond to that, and then based on that
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the judge will decide whether to convert her temporary order
prohibiting his rearrest into a permanent order or whether to
dissolve it. So, as of right now, mister Bergo Garcia
is going to return to his home with his wife
and his children, and his family members in Maryland and
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he will be at home through Christmas in New Year.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
MM. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Judge decided that he should go home despite the fact
that he was trafficking.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We know that, we saw that in Tennessee, we saw
the video of it. We we understand what's going on.
This is the identity politics that you have got to
watch for that is going to be the absolute placeholder
for the Democratic Party. They're not going to talk about economics.
They're going to talk about everything but the economics because they.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Have no plan in the world of economics.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
They have no idea how they're going to make you
more prosperous, how they are going to allow you to
be more prosperous. These folks are not ready for prime time.
These folks, in fact, are looking to bring even more
people into the streets. And I'm willing to guarantee a
dollar to a donut that you're going to see a
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whole bunch of other stuff like this beginning to happen
because they do not have an economic policy, they do
not have any plans, they do not have any of
these sorts of things that are going to be better
for you. All they have is identity politics, and it
sounds like some kind of a throwaway line identity politics,
identity politics.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But that's all they have.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Hi, are you aggrieved because Donald Trump is in office? Well,
then sign up with us, with the Democrat Party and
we will be a kin with you. That's all they've got.
It's amazing, it's remarkable, and it is exactly what they're
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planning to do. Now, you can choose this or you
can refute this. Certainly love to take your calls on
this occasion. In for Clay and Buck. I'm Brent Woterble.
It's a pleasure to be with you. Eight hundred two
eight two eight two eight hundred two two to eight
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Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let's get a break in. We'll come back right after this.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
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Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas and
a happy New Year. Buck Sexton, here, the entire Clayan
Buck Show wish you and your family a warm Christmas
(10:53):
season and a joyful new Year.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And welcome back to the Clan Buck Show.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's great to be with you all today as we
are looking directly ahead towards Christmas Eve tomorrow and then
Christmas Day coming very soon. I've got a couple of
great guests are going to be joining us over the
course of the next couple of hours, not the least
of which Bill Raggio from Long War Journal. He's going
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to join us looking at some of these terror threats
that are out there, specifically what we're seeing with ISIS.
And later in the third hour, a very good friend
of mine, father Bill Nicholas, is going to join us
talking about Christmas and about the miracle that is Christmas,
and I'm looking forward to hearing his thoughts in that regard.
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But as we sit here and we look at the
different challenges that we're facing in this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Country, we are nowhere near in.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The peril that we were when we were coming up
into twenty twenty four. The reality is people are walking
around feeling better. The military has never been stronger. They
are people who are representing this country to their best,
and this is something that should not be overlooked. Because
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when we had the speech by the President earlier this week,
and the President offered up the seventeen hundred and seventy
six dollars in bonuses to the military.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That is something that is such an incredible contrast. Why
because you remember when Joe Biden threw people out of
the military because they would not take the Fauci shot.
They were not going to do that. They were concerned
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about this, they were upset about this. And you saw
so many people sent away from the United States military,
from the from the US military academies as well. This
this is such a different time, this is such a
different place. It's interesting to me as I think back
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about that announcement by the President, and then of course
the contrast with with the Biden administration, uh, disrespecting in
the extreme, uh, the people who serve this country, who
defend this country, who lay it on the line every day.
And it's so interesting because as I was going through
the prep today, one of the storylines that that struck
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me was the conversation between Sean Ryan and and for
a former uh, important person in Hunter Biden and Hunter
Biden is now he's saying, oh, yeah, well, this was
a botched move when we when we got the Abbey
Gate and all that sort of stuff, and it should
never have happened, and my father should never have.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Done this sort of stuff. These folks are coming out
of the woodwork.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You think about it, right, we got we got Rosie
coming out, We've got this guy coming out, all because
they're seeing that the bus is taken off down the
road and the economy is about to get.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Really, really good.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So what they're trying to do is they're trying to obfuscate,
they're trying to try to make headlines, they're trying to
do all of these sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But the people who are doing the hard work.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The people in the military, the people who are laborers,
the people who are driving with actual, real CDLs, not
just yanky pieces of paper that are not allowed to
be on our roads.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
The American movement is happening in a big way. You
can feel it, you can see it, you can spot
the steps that people are taking to defend this country
at every bit, at every turn.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Why, because all it takes is a little bit of confidence.
You have to believe and then you have to go
after what it is that is your mission. If you
go back to the bad old days of the Obama
Biden administration, if you go back to the bad old
days of the Biden administration. Look at the people who
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were coming through those offices and what they were planning
on doing, and what they wanted you to think. What
was important that was not important to us as Americans.
It was important to them as projects, as little projects
that they wanted to do. And so when you sit
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back and you think about how far we've come in
just eleven months, it's remarkable. People are feeling better now.
AI may be a part of that, no doubt, but
the reality is the American people are believing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They're believing.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We have so many people who have such great talent
and they've idled them. They've decided they don't want to
do the things that they need to do. Well, ladies
and gentlemen, it's clear as a bell to me. We
have nothing but upside and what does the other side have?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What does the other side have?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The other side has plans impeachments, going after ice agents. Oh,
that's right, you'll hear about that coming up by Pritzker.
He wants to prosecute in the in the next term,
the ice agents who are keeping us safe.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
What what a maniac?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
This is unbelievable, but it's totally believable because it's brought
to you by the Left.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
All right, we're gonna get a break in. I'm Bret Witterbule.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's a pleasure to be with you here today in
for Clay and buck eight hundred two two eight eight
back after this Loo come back, it is playing Buck Show.
I'm Brett Widerble in for Clay and Bucket. It's a
pleasure to be with this incredible audience. I always love
talking to you guys. Eight hundred and two A two
to eight, eight to two. It's a pleasure to be
able to spend time on all these different topics. I'm
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gonna go to the phones here in just one second,
but I want to I want to go with something
that I think is very interesting because it seems to
me that the administration is going all full guns uh
to get this economy to really supercharge. And there's a
piece that's running over at CNBC, although I've seen it
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in other places as well, and it's a FED chair
candidate who may be replacing obviously Jerome Powell. Kevin Hasseid
says the US is way behind the curve on lowering
interest rates. The National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said
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Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is not cutting interest rates
quickly enough, even as the US economy grew at a
much faster pace than expected in the third quarter. The
top White House economic advisor considered a leading contender to
succeed Jerome Powell after his term ends in May. Hassett
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said the artificial intelligence boom is boosting economic growth while
simultaneously putting downward pressure on inflation. So these rates, your
credit cards, your mortgages, all the stuff that your car loans,
you should be able to get it at a lower rate.
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And that seems to be what Kevin Hassett is pushing for.
It's obviously also the policy of the President as well,
who wants to get that thing done.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now. A lot of people are talking about the Epstein
batches and the Epstein.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Stuff, and I want to take this call patiently, holding
on here. It's going to be John in California Online three.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Hi, thank you. I'm John the canceled dad in Sante California.
I believe that what's going on the Democrats are never
about what they're saying they're about. I believe what's going
on is they and the few Republicans and went along
with it, are tying up the Justice Department attorneys with
this nonsense so that they don't have time to pursue
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the real crimes, the collusion, the targeting of private citizens
for political purposes, and various other things, and some of
the business with investments that they're making ridiculous amounts of
money on. Thousands of attorneys are busy now doing busy
work because of this.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Act.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yep, all right, so let me let me so let
me let me put the the, the I and the
T on this as well. This is very important what
you're saying.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
All right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
They are definitely trying to wallow in this. They're definitely
trying to push this. Look, you could have a whole
bunch of prosecutions if you want. That's that's certainly one
way of going about it. And thank you for the call, John,
I always appreciate hearing from you. Let me have cut
number six Joe Scarborough this morning with Mika, they acknowledge
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something that all of us already kind of knew.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Cut number six.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
One of the great mysteries to me and a lot
of other people is we've had reporting for some time
Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in
there that's really damning about Donald Trump, and s as
Susie Wilde says, not damning about Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are Bill Clinton?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
So one of the great mysteries all along in this
not been like, what's Donald Trump hiding?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What did he do? Da da da da?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Say?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Why if he's not in these files, which all the
reporting says he's not, Why is he so obsessed on
blocking access to the files? Is he trying to protect somebody?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Joe, You got to the actual heart of the question,
and it's actually not been reported. One of the reasons
Marjorie Taylor Green got on board with Massey in my
effort is she fundamentally believed that Trump was not implicated,
and she would call the president and say, look, just
get these out. I don't know why you're not getting
it out. And she would tell Massey and me, of
course he's going to come around. And every press conference
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we had, we never made it about Donald Trump. We
made it about the survivors. The survivors pleaded with Donald Trump,
you can be a hero. No previous president has done this.
Release the files and what people are asking, and frankly
even I'm asking is what are they hiding? Why is
it that they're not releasing the draft sixty count indictment
when they only charged Epstein with two counts.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Why aren't they releasing.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
The eighty two page prosecution memo of all the implications
he had with rich and powerful folks. Why are they
protecting this Epstein class and why aren't they releasing the
FBI interviews. Every time they do one of these things
of concealing, they're just reading your order further down.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is the problem.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The problem that they don't understand is you've got a
guy who wants to get the economy going, who wants
to do big things, who wants to create peace in
the Middle East, who wants to go and you know,
end these stupid wars that are out there with with
the Ukraine and all that sort of stuff. These guys
all think the exact same way, the same way that
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they that they sit back and they go.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh, yeah, we're gonna find some stuff. We're gonna do
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Why does Donald Trump not want to talk about this
because it doesn't involve him that this is that's the
You see, people get this warped mania when they go
to Washington, DC, and you just saw a strong economy print.
You just saw big things coming. If they can if
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they can cut the rates, if they can do all
of these sorts of things, it's going to lift all
the boats. You've got a group of people who are
NonStop twenty four to seven, three sixty five wanting to
only talk about the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Trump wasn't part of that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So it's like saying, mister president, why don't you talk
about the failed coupdeta in Burkina Fosso?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, if Donald Trump's not part of that, why would
he want to talk about it? Why would he.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Want to waste his time, waste his energy, waste all
of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's abundantly clear.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The people who are from DC, who stay in DC
just like to continue to be in decent That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They like scandal. They don't want to do hard work.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's why people get so frustrated when they go to
that place and they sit back and they say, wait
a minute, why are we not doing anything? Why are
we not building anything? Why are we not It's because
it's because they don't understand that you have a limited
time to achieve great things.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Why would Donald Trump go and talk to this.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Guy, that guy, the other guy, because it means it's
going to be something better for the United States of America,
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But Scarborough is perplexed.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I can't I can't tell you anything about what I'm
What I'm seeing here doesn't seem to make any sense. Well,
why would you want to talk about something that has
nothing to do with you if you're the president of
the United States. It's that this is the challenge. This
is the challenge that we have to deal with, and unfortunate, unfortunately,
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all the left wants to do is try to kick
sand in your face.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And the reason why they want to kick.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Sand in your face is because you are somebody who
is not yet being assimilated into the democratic notion.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Let's go to Kevin in Boston. Kevin, welcome to the
clan Buck Show. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Well, first of all, man, you do a great job
of the show. I started listening yesterday to You're great, man,
You're awesome. First of all, I wanted to send you
ready for this, I wanted to sing White Christmas. That
Mayor Woo's Christmas party, The mayor of Boston, and they
would they would let me do it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They're not going to let you do it. They weren't
going to let you do it.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You know why right, because she's given credit to a
whole new group of people for making Boston great again.
Have you have you come across that headline? Have you
have you seen that story?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I know better than anybody. I'm up here. I'm a transplant,
but I've been up here for ten years. And but
how does a husband go to the Christmas party? Where's
raucho glasses? Anyway, I just want to just tell people,
and this is what the Democrats, really a bunch of communists,
want to do. Now they're looking they feel four hundred
million people, they could get another fifty million into the country.
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They'll totally dilute the conservative movement and they'll have total power.
And then when they get that, you know, they're gonna
fly millions of people into this country in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Well, they already tried that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, they already they already tried that, and and the
American people have rebelled against that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
This is see the thing that they're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And look, immigration is great, Okay, as long as you
are making sure that people are eligible to come out
of the country, to be able.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
To fill out their paperwork, to do all of that
sort of stuff. Not all immigration is the same.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You have people that want to kind of border rush,
and then you've got people who are doing it in
a legal fashion. And unfortunately we ended up with Biden's
administration just opening the doors for everybody, and now the
cleanup is happening. I've been seeing Christy Nome talking about
spending money three thousand dollars to repatriate these people back
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to their home countries. That's a fundamentally good move I
think in that regard. But I'll tell you what I'll make.
I'll make a deal with you there, Kevin, and I
appreciate the call on the Klambuck Show. I'm gonna play
a clip when we come back in just a couple
of minutes, because there's there's some really good stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
In fact, you know what, I'm not even I'm not
even gonna wait. I'm not even gonna wait.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
We're gonna We're gonna do this now because I think
this is a very important thing. Michelle Wu is the
mayor of Boston, and she has a very interesting take
on what makes Boston great cut number one.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Please, you cannot talk about any achievement that the city
of Boston has had in safety, jobs and economic development,
in education without talking about the Somali community that has
lifted our city up. We are proud and we are
grateful for our Somali community and for us and all
American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate
has no place in our society. We will use every
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attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available to
empower and work alongside our community members who are already
doing so much good in the world and setting an
example for the rest of the country.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, that's fantastic, as long as you have vetted them,
as long as you have made sure that they are
here legally, all that sort of stuff. But the reality is,
this is a big This is a big ask because
the fact of the matter is is Boston's been great
for a very long time. It was the birth of
the Revolution. It is the place where Americans were able
to breathe free. It's not just about skin color, it's
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not just about your identity politics. It's about can you
come into the country, can you build up businesses, can
you do great things? And we have to know, we
have to know what the plan is going to be
down the road.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So Michelle who.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Was proud of the Somali community, they're in Boston, and
that's fine, but we have got to make sure that
the people that are coming into Boston or New York
or Chicago or LA or any other place around this country,
they have got to be vetted, they have got to
be checked, and we have to make sure that they're
eligible to be here in this country. And when it
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comes to things like Tim Walls, well, let's see where'd
the eighteen billion dollars go?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We have to find out.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
My name's Brett Witterable. I'm in for Clay and Buck.
It's a pleasure to be with you. Eight hundred and
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This, two guys walk up to a mic he anything
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Speaker 1 (29:53):
Podcast and welcome back. I am Brett witable in for
Clay and Buck. Pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Eight hundred two two two eight A two GOP lawmaker
unveil unveils the Walls Act. After billions lost in Minneso
to fraud scandal, A Republican lawmaker has reacted to the
massive folding fraud scandal in Minnesota with legislation aimed at
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preventing more taxpayer dollars from being wasted at the United
States Department of Health and Human Services. Republican Representative Marionette
Miller Meeks has introduced the Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions Act,
or the WALLS Act, which would require HHS off Office
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of Inspector General to open investigations into any program that
sees a tenor greater increase in total payments over any
six month period within a fiscal year. So this is
one of these things it says, Okay, look, this looks
like it's going to be fraud.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is clearly going to be fraud. What are we
going to do?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Under the bill, the HHS would no longer have discretion
to ignore sudden billing increases that critics say often signal
fraud schemes, particularly in large entitlement programs. Oh boy, you
know what's gonna happen. They're gonna play the old Doge card.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They're gonna say, you can't look at all, this sort
of they're not allowed to see any of this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
What's wrong with you? Why are you trying to do this?
The bill comes amidst these revelations in recent months in
Minnesota's federally funded health and nutrition programs that were rife
with fraud to the tune of potentially up to nine
billion dollars. But wait, I thought it was eighteen billion dollars.
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Are we not getting the actual number? Is that what's
happening here? I think that might be the case.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Miller Meeks told Fox News Digital that the situation in
Minnesota is a jaw dropping.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Failure of leadership. Is it or is it a feature?
Or is it a mistake? This is what happens when
fun crime democrats run the shoe, zero accountability.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And zero oversight, and taxpayers are left holding the bag.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So the Walls.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Act is named for a reason, to ensure that this
level of negligence can never be repeated anywhere else in America.
This bill puts the hard safeguards in place to protect
taxpayer dollars. Shut the door, whole league out. This is
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this is something we gotta look at. We got to
look at this in a very very specific way. That's
all I'm saying. And so when you think about this,
maybe mister Walls will be there for the bill signing. Yes,
now approaching Governor Walls and the bill that he has
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to pay.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
All right, coming up in this next hour, we're gonna
be joined by Bill Roggio. We'll talk about the threats
around the world, specifically ISIS and everything else. And it
is wide open, folks, it is wide open.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm excited. You should be excited. This is the best
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Stick around plenty more. I'm Brett wootererbal in for Clay
and Buck.
He's hurt on WBT and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Please welcome Brett Wintervile filling in for Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
No place I'd rather be than with this incredible audience.
It's a pleasure to be with you in for Clay
and Buck. Our telephone number if you want to get
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And it is such a pleasure to be with you
today with really good news, with really good economic numbers,
lots of stuff happening. There is a brand new lawmaker
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that is unveiling the Walls Act. And that's not the
walls down at the border. We're talking about the Walls
Act involving that's right, the man who would be king
in Minnesota tim Walls.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
But let's get started with really good news. Now.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
If you decide at any point in time that you
think that our economy is just not the sort of
thing that you want to be involved with, well then
I don't know how to convince you. Because the fact
of the matter is the United States economy grew this summer.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
So this is lagging this summer at the.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Fastest pace in two years, far outpacing economists' forecasts. The
Commerce Department said, US gross domestic product, the government's official
economic scoreboard, rose at a seasonally and inflation adjusted four
point three percent annual rate in.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The third quarter.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
The report on the July through September period was delayed
due to the Schumer shutdown, But we are looking at
the numbers of this and this thing blew the doors off.
Today's blockbuster expectation smashing GDP report is the latest proof
that President Trump's America First trade and economic agenda continues
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to turn the page on the Biden economic disaster. And
more importantly, American consumers are spending and American exports are surging.
And the White House spokesperson Push Desai said, President Trump
built the greatest economic and engine in the world in
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his first term, and he's in the process of doing
it all again after it was defiled and abused and
pushed away because of all of the DEI and all
of the socialist experiments that have been happening in that
interregnum period that we know as the Biden administration. Gross
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domestic product is a broad measure of the goods and
services produced across the economy, and economists had expected that
the economy would grow at three point two percent, and
we now see that that is a much higher number
than they were even talking about.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, I want to go back to the Schumer shutdown, because.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I'm just wondering if they were sitting back and seeing
what those numbers were looking like, and they were looking
to try to drag President Trump. They were trying to
push off all of the good news, all of the
good you know, consequences of this sort of a move,
and that's why they may have turned and walked away
and not wanted to cut the deals that needed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
To be done.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Now, consumer spending grew much faster than expected, expanding at
a seasonally inflation adjusted annual rate of three point five percent,
and that is up from the two point five percent
in the second quarter and well above, well above the
two point seven percent expected. So if you're feeling good
about this, your right to feel good. This is a
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very important notion. This is a big deal, and it's
because of the American people, not the people in Washington, DC,
not the people in the House to Senate, whatever it is.
This is because the American people are going long on
this economy. So let's break this down here for just
a couple of minutes. Okay, the number one plan that
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the Democrats have is to try to impeach and.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Destroy Donald Trump.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But the thing that is the kryptonite to those Democrats
is the economy continuing to surge. As long as this
economy surges, and we don't know what this is going
to look like when we get past Christmas, past New
Year's and then into that first quarter of that next
year in twenty twenty six, we may be seeing robust
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numbers that are coming to life that are going to
make it very, very difficult for the Democrats to try to.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Make a case that we have got to change.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The direction of the I have got sound bite after
sound bite after sound bite on this program that you're
going to be able to hear these people in their
own language, in their.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Own takes, and when you think about.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
What they're offering up to you, it is thin, gruel.
It is not anything that you want to consume. It
is not anything that you want to be a part of,
because what you see right now is a toxic brew
of ideological identity politics and higher taxes and lower expectations.
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That is what the Democrat Party is going to do.
The Republican Party is saying, hey, we passed the big,
beautiful bill, and now it's time to get this thing
into focus and to get this thing in the important
spots that it's got to be. Now again, there are
going to be nay sayers. There are going to be
people who are going to try to tell you that
the economy.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is not good.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They did that with Reagan, they did it with Trump
in the first term, and now they're going to try
to do it in this next term. And these folks
are out of their mind. They're not ready for prime time.
They are not ready to be serious about the economy
such as we know it, and they're going to try
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to regulate and take you down in a whole lot
of different ways. So here's the question for you, knowing
these numbers coming in and hearing the reporting that's coming
in not just here on the claim Buck Show, but
also around the around the world, what are you thinking
about in this regard? Because I can tell you what
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the left is thinking about. I can tell you a
bunch of things that the left is trying to sell
to you. Let me give you an example of this.
If I may, let me give you an example. This
is what the left wants you Remember the judge called Boburg.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Remember Boseburg, who.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Is the guy that was going to spring all of
the illegals back out from Trende Arragua and all those folks. Well,
Abrego Garcia is now free again. This because a judge said, no, no,
you don't have to go back to l Salvador. You
don't have to go back to some other place. K
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Abrego Garcia, the three named man is going free.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I've got cut number eight.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Get a load of his lawyer talking about the release
that's happening. Go.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
So the government gave the excuse me, the district judge
gave the government until the twenty sixth of December, that
is to say, Friday, to actually answer the question what
is your plan for mister Abrago Garcia. Are you planning
to rearrest him? If so, why will then have the
opportunity to respond to that, and then based on that
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the judge will decide whether to convert her temporary order
prohibiting his rearrest into a permanent order or whether to
dissolve it. So, as of right now, mister Bergo Garcia
is going to return to his home with his wife
and his children, and his family members in Maryland and
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he will be at home through Christmas in New Year.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
MM. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Judge decided that he should go home despite the fact
that he was trafficking.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Right.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
We know that, we saw that in Tennessee, we saw
the video of it. We we understand what's going on.
This is the identity politics that you have got to
watch for that is going to be the absolute placeholder
for the Democratic Party. They're not going to talk about economics.
They're going to talk about everything but the economics because they.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Have no plan in the world of economics.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
They have no idea how they're going to make you
more prosperous, how they are going to allow you to
be more prosperous. These folks are not ready for prime time.
These folks, in fact, are looking to bring even more
people into the streets. And I'm willing to guarantee a
dollar to a donut that you're going to see a
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whole bunch of other stuff like this beginning to happen
because they do not have an economic policy, they do
not have any plans, they do not have any of
these sorts of things that are going to be better
for you. All they have is identity politics, and it
sounds like some kind of a throwaway line identity politics,
identity politics.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But that's all they have.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Hi, are you aggrieved because Donald Trump is in office? Well,
then sign up with us, with the Democrat Party and
we will be a kin with you. That's all they've got.
It's amazing, it's remarkable, and it is exactly what they're
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planning to do. Now, you can choose this or you
can refute this. Certainly love to take your calls on
this occasion. In for Clay and Buck. I'm Brent Woterble.
It's a pleasure to be with you. Eight hundred two
eight two eight two eight hundred two two to eight
A two.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let's get a break in. We'll come back right after this.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Play Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
Find them on the vree iHeartRadio app or wherever you
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Wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas and
a happy New Year. Buck Sexton, here, the entire Clayan
Buck Show wish you and your family a warm Christmas
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season and a joyful new Year.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And welcome back to the Clan Buck Show.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
It's great to be with you all today as we
are looking directly ahead towards Christmas Eve tomorrow and then
Christmas Day coming very soon. I've got a couple of
great guests are going to be joining us over the
course of the next couple of hours, not the least
of which Bill Raggio from Long War Journal. He's going
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to join us looking at some of these terror threats
that are out there, specifically what we're seeing with ISIS.
And later in the third hour, a very good friend
of mine, father Bill Nicholas, is going to join us
talking about Christmas and about the miracle that is Christmas,
and I'm looking forward to hearing his thoughts in that regard.
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But as we sit here and we look at the
different challenges that we're facing in this.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Country, we are nowhere near in.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
The peril that we were when we were coming up
into twenty twenty four. The reality is people are walking
around feeling better. The military has never been stronger. They
are people who are representing this country to their best,
and this is something that should not be overlooked. Because
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when we had the speech by the President earlier this week,
and the President offered up the seventeen hundred and seventy
six dollars in bonuses to the military.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Folks.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
That is something that is such an incredible contrast. Why
because you remember when Joe Biden threw people out of
the military because they would not take the Fauci shot.
They were not going to do that. They were concerned
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about this, they were upset about this. And you saw
so many people sent away from the United States military,
from the from the US military academies as well. This
this is such a different time, this is such a
different place. It's interesting to me as I think back
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about that announcement by the President, and then of course
the contrast with with the Biden administration, uh, disrespecting in
the extreme, uh, the people who serve this country, who
defend this country, who lay it on the line every day.
And it's so interesting because as I was going through
the prep today, one of the storylines that that struck
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me was the conversation between Sean Ryan and and for
a former uh, important person in Hunter Biden and Hunter
Biden is now he's saying, oh, yeah, well, this was
a botched move when we when we got the Abbey
Gate and all that sort of stuff, and it should
never have happened, and my father should never have.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Done this sort of stuff. These folks are coming out
of the woodwork.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
You think about it, right, we got we got Rosie
coming out, We've got this guy coming out, all because
they're seeing that the bus is taken off down the
road and the economy is about to get.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Really, really good.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
So what they're trying to do is they're trying to obfuscate,
they're trying to try to make headlines, they're trying to
do all of these sorts of things.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
But the people who are doing the hard work.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
The people in the military, the people who are laborers,
the people who are driving with actual, real CDLs, not
just yanky pieces of paper that are not allowed to
be on our roads.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
The American movement is happening in a big way. You
can feel it, you can see it, you can spot
the steps that people are taking to defend this country
at every bit, at every turn.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Why, because all it takes is a little bit of confidence.
You have to believe and then you have to go
after what it is that is your mission. If you
go back to the bad old days of the Obama
Biden administration, if you go back to the bad old
days of the Biden administration. Look at the people who
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were coming through those offices and what they were planning
on doing, and what they wanted you to think. What
was important that was not important to us as Americans.
It was important to them as projects, as little projects
that they wanted to do. And so when you sit
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back and you think about how far we've come in
just eleven months, it's remarkable. People are feeling better now.
AI may be a part of that, no doubt, but
the reality is the American people are believing.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
They're believing.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
We have so many people who have such great talent
and they've idled them. They've decided they don't want to
do the things that they need to do. Well, ladies
and gentlemen, it's clear as a bell to me. We
have nothing but upside and what does the other side have?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What does the other side have?
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The other side has plans impeachments, going after ice agents. Oh,
that's right, you'll hear about that coming up by Pritzker.
He wants to prosecute in the in the next term,
the ice agents who are keeping us safe.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
What what a maniac?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
This is unbelievable, but it's totally believable because it's brought
to you by the Left.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
All right, we're gonna get a break in. I'm Bret Witterbule.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
It's a pleasure to be with you here today in
for Clay and buck eight hundred two two eight eight
back after this Loo come back, it is playing Buck Show.
I'm Brett Widerble in for Clay and Bucket. It's a
pleasure to be with this incredible audience. I always love
talking to you guys. Eight hundred and two A two
to eight, eight to two. It's a pleasure to be
able to spend time on all these different topics. I'm
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gonna go to the phones here in just one second,
but I want to I want to go with something
that I think is very interesting because it seems to
me that the administration is going all full guns uh
to get this economy to really supercharge. And there's a
piece that's running over at CNBC, although I've seen it
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in other places as well, and it's a FED chair
candidate who may be replacing obviously Jerome Powell. Kevin Hasseid
says the US is way behind the curve on lowering
interest rates. The National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said
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Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is not cutting interest rates
quickly enough, even as the US economy grew at a
much faster pace than expected in the third quarter. The
top White House economic advisor considered a leading contender to
succeed Jerome Powell after his term ends in May. Hassett
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said the artificial intelligence boom is boosting economic growth while
simultaneously putting downward pressure on inflation. So these rates, your
credit cards, your mortgages, all the stuff that your car loans,
you should be able to get it at a lower rate.
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And that seems to be what Kevin Hassett is pushing for.
It's obviously also the policy of the President as well,
who wants to get that thing done.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Now. A lot of people are talking about the Epstein
batches and the Epstein.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Stuff, and I want to take this call patiently, holding
on here. It's going to be John in California Online three.
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Hi, thank you. I'm John the canceled dad in Sante California.
I believe that what's going on the Democrats are never
about what they're saying they're about. I believe what's going
on is they and the few Republicans and went along
with it, are tying up the Justice Department attorneys with
this nonsense so that they don't have time to pursue
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the real crimes, the collusion, the targeting of private citizens
for political purposes, and various other things, and some of
the business with investments that they're making ridiculous amounts of
money on. Thousands of attorneys are busy now doing busy
work because of this.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Act.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yep, all right, so let me let me so let
me let me put the the, the I and the
T on this as well. This is very important what
you're saying.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
All right.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
They are definitely trying to wallow in this. They're definitely
trying to push this. Look, you could have a whole
bunch of prosecutions if you want. That's that's certainly one
way of going about it. And thank you for the call, John,
I always appreciate hearing from you. Let me have cut
number six Joe Scarborough this morning with Mika, they acknowledge
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something that all of us already kind of knew.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Cut number six.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
One of the great mysteries to me and a lot
of other people is we've had reporting for some time
Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in
there that's really damning about Donald Trump, and s as
Susie Wilde says, not damning about Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Are Bill Clinton?
Speaker 7 (20:40):
So one of the great mysteries all along in this
not been like, what's Donald Trump hiding?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
What did he do? Da da da da?
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Say?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Why if he's not in these files, which all the
reporting says he's not, Why is he so obsessed on
blocking access to the files? Is he trying to protect somebody?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
Joe, You got to the actual heart of the question,
and it's actually not been reported. One of the reasons
Marjorie Taylor Green got on board with Massey in my
effort is she fundamentally believed that Trump was not implicated,
and she would call the president and say, look, just
get these out. I don't know why you're not getting
it out. And she would tell Massey and me, of
course he's going to come around. And every press conference
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we had, we never made it about Donald Trump. We
made it about the survivors. The survivors pleaded with Donald Trump,
you can be a hero. No previous president has done this.
Release the files and what people are asking, and frankly
even I'm asking is what are they hiding? Why is
it that they're not releasing the draft sixty count indictment
when they only charged Epstein with two counts.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Why aren't they releasing.
Speaker 8 (21:43):
The eighty two page prosecution memo of all the implications
he had with rich and powerful folks. Why are they
protecting this Epstein class and why aren't they releasing the
FBI interviews. Every time they do one of these things
of concealing, they're just reading your order further down.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
This is the problem.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
The problem that they don't understand is you've got a
guy who wants to get the economy going, who wants
to do big things, who wants to create peace in
the Middle East, who wants to go and you know,
end these stupid wars that are out there with with
the Ukraine and all that sort of stuff. These guys
all think the exact same way, the same way that
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they that they sit back and they go.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Oh, yeah, we're gonna find some stuff. We're gonna do
this stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Why does Donald Trump not want to talk about this
because it doesn't involve him that this is that's the
You see, people get this warped mania when they go
to Washington, DC, and you just saw a strong economy print.
You just saw big things coming. If they can if
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they can cut the rates, if they can do all
of these sorts of things, it's going to lift all
the boats. You've got a group of people who are
NonStop twenty four to seven, three sixty five wanting to
only talk about the Epstein files.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Trump wasn't part of that.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
So it's like saying, mister president, why don't you talk
about the failed coupdeta in Burkina Fosso?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Well, if Donald Trump's not part of that, why would
he want to talk about it? Why would he.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Want to waste his time, waste his energy, waste all
of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
It's abundantly clear.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
The people who are from DC, who stay in DC
just like to continue to be in decent That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
They like scandal. They don't want to do hard work.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It's why people get so frustrated when they go to
that place and they sit back and they say, wait
a minute, why are we not doing anything? Why are
we not building anything? Why are we not It's because
it's because they don't understand that you have a limited
time to achieve great things.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Why would Donald Trump go and talk to this.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Guy, that guy, the other guy, because it means it's
going to be something better for the United States of America,
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But Scarborough is perplexed.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I can't I can't tell you anything about what I'm
What I'm seeing here doesn't seem to make any sense. Well,
why would you want to talk about something that has
nothing to do with you if you're the president of
the United States. It's that this is the challenge. This
is the challenge that we have to deal with, and unfortunate, unfortunately,
(24:44):
all the left wants to do is try to kick
sand in your face.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
And the reason why they want to kick.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Sand in your face is because you are somebody who
is not yet being assimilated into the democratic notion.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Let's go to Kevin in Boston. Kevin, welcome to the
clan Buck Show. What's on your mind today?
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Well, first of all, man, you do a great job
of the show. I started listening yesterday to You're great, man,
You're awesome. First of all, I wanted to send you
ready for this, I wanted to sing White Christmas. That
Mayor Woo's Christmas party, The mayor of Boston, and they
would they would let me do it.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They're not going to let you do it. They weren't
going to let you do it.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
You know why right, because she's given credit to a
whole new group of people for making Boston great again.
Have you have you come across that headline? Have you
have you seen that story?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
I know better than anybody. I'm up here. I'm a transplant,
but I've been up here for ten years. And but
how does a husband go to the Christmas party? Where's
raucho glasses? Anyway, I just want to just tell people,
and this is what the Democrats, really a bunch of communists,
want to do. Now they're looking they feel four hundred
million people, they could get another fifty million into the country.
(26:03):
They'll totally dilute the conservative movement and they'll have total power.
And then when they get that, you know, they're gonna
fly millions of people into this country in your neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
Well, they already tried that.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
No, they already they already tried that, and and the
American people have rebelled against that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
This is see the thing that they're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
And look, immigration is great, Okay, as long as you
are making sure that people are eligible to come out
of the country, to be able.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
To fill out their paperwork, to do all of that
sort of stuff. Not all immigration is the same.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
You have people that want to kind of border rush,
and then you've got people who are doing it in
a legal fashion. And unfortunately we ended up with Biden's
administration just opening the doors for everybody, and now the
cleanup is happening. I've been seeing Christy Nome talking about
spending money three thousand dollars to repatriate these people back
(27:04):
to their home countries. That's a fundamentally good move I
think in that regard. But I'll tell you what I'll make.
I'll make a deal with you there, Kevin, and I
appreciate the call on the Klambuck Show. I'm gonna play
a clip when we come back in just a couple
of minutes, because there's there's some really good stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
In fact, you know what, I'm not even I'm not
even gonna wait. I'm not even gonna wait.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
We're gonna We're gonna do this now because I think
this is a very important thing. Michelle Wu is the
mayor of Boston, and she has a very interesting take
on what makes Boston great cut number one.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
Please, you cannot talk about any achievement that the city
of Boston has had in safety, jobs and economic development,
in education without talking about the Somali community that has
lifted our city up. We are proud and we are
grateful for our Somali community and for us and all
American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate
has no place in our society. We will use every
(28:07):
attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available to
empower and work alongside our community members who are already
doing so much good in the world and setting an
example for the rest of the country.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, that's fantastic, as long as you have vetted them,
as long as you have made sure that they are
here legally, all that sort of stuff. But the reality is,
this is a big This is a big ask because
the fact of the matter is is Boston's been great
for a very long time. It was the birth of
the Revolution. It is the place where Americans were able
to breathe free. It's not just about skin color, it's
(28:45):
not just about your identity politics. It's about can you
come into the country, can you build up businesses, can
you do great things? And we have to know, we
have to know what the plan is going to be
down the road.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So Michelle who.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Was proud of the Somali community, they're in Boston, and
that's fine, but we have got to make sure that
the people that are coming into Boston or New York
or Chicago or LA or any other place around this country,
they have got to be vetted, they have got to
be checked, and we have to make sure that they're
eligible to be here in this country. And when it
(29:25):
comes to things like Tim Walls, well, let's see where'd
the eighteen billion dollars go?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
We have to find out.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
My name's Brett Witterable. I'm in for Clay and Buck.
It's a pleasure to be with you. Eight hundred and
two A two two eight A two Back after.
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Speaker 1 (29:53):
Podcast and welcome back. I am Brett witable in for
Clay and Buck. Pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Eight hundred two two two eight A two GOP lawmaker
unveil unveils the Walls Act. After billions lost in Minneso
to fraud scandal, A Republican lawmaker has reacted to the
massive folding fraud scandal in Minnesota with legislation aimed at
(30:20):
preventing more taxpayer dollars from being wasted at the United
States Department of Health and Human Services. Republican Representative Marionette
Miller Meeks has introduced the Welfare Abuse and Laundering Zillions Act,
or the WALLS Act, which would require HHS off Office
(30:46):
of Inspector General to open investigations into any program that
sees a tenor greater increase in total payments over any
six month period within a fiscal year. So this is
one of these things it says, Okay, look, this looks
like it's going to be fraud.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
This is clearly going to be fraud. What are we
going to do?
Speaker 8 (31:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Under the bill, the HHS would no longer have discretion
to ignore sudden billing increases that critics say often signal
fraud schemes, particularly in large entitlement programs. Oh boy, you
know what's gonna happen. They're gonna play the old Doge card.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They're gonna say, you can't look at all, this sort
of they're not allowed to see any of this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
What's wrong with you? Why are you trying to do this?
The bill comes amidst these revelations in recent months in
Minnesota's federally funded health and nutrition programs that were rife
with fraud to the tune of potentially up to nine
billion dollars. But wait, I thought it was eighteen billion dollars.
(31:58):
Are we not getting the actual number? Is that what's
happening here? I think that might be the case.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Miller Meeks told Fox News Digital that the situation in
Minnesota is a jaw dropping.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Failure of leadership. Is it or is it a feature?
Or is it a mistake? This is what happens when
fun crime democrats run the shoe, zero accountability.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
And zero oversight, and taxpayers are left holding the bag.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So the Walls.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Act is named for a reason, to ensure that this
level of negligence can never be repeated anywhere else in America.
This bill puts the hard safeguards in place to protect
taxpayer dollars. Shut the door, whole league out. This is
(33:03):
this is something we gotta look at. We got to
look at this in a very very specific way. That's
all I'm saying. And so when you think about this,
maybe mister Walls will be there for the bill signing. Yes,
now approaching Governor Walls and the bill that he has
(33:23):
to pay.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
All right, coming up in this next hour, we're gonna
be joined by Bill Roggio. We'll talk about the threats
around the world, specifically ISIS and everything else. And it
is wide open, folks, it is wide open.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm excited. You should be excited. This is the best
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Stick around plenty more. I'm Brett wootererbal in for Clay
and Buck.
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