Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Apr 13 2026
4/13/202663 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome, everybody, to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
0:10show. Today's one of those days, my friends, where right at the jump, we've got
0:15probably five hours of show that we wish we could talk to you about in
0:18only three hours of time.
0:19So a ton of stuff.
0:21Let's talk for a moment here.
0:23Let's lay out the bountiful news feast.
0:28Let's look at the menu and let you know where we're going, what we're talking
0:32about today, what the big things are.
0:35I'm going to start with this, actually.
0:37We'll get into this later.
0:38I'm going to go in a little bit of reverse order.
0:41Swalwell is done as governor -to -be of California, which is a remarkable turnabout.
0:48It was, as I joked on Twitter, Clay, it looks like Swalwell was two weeks
0:53away from getting a nuclear weapon.
0:56The concerted, all -out Democrat media takedown of this guy.
1:01Now, to be clear, this stuff is really bad.
1:03Like, they were hiding what everybody kind of knew, and they've known about this for
1:08a long time. But just the coordination of the total eradication of this guy's political
1:14future about things that they had been keeping.
1:17Remember, they had known for months, in some cases, years, these allegations were out there.
1:22Swalwell is a scumbag. I think that is very obvious.
1:25Is he a criminal? That is what is alleged at this point only.
1:30But he is done. And our friend Steve Hilton, who was running against him, was
1:34his chief competitor on the Republican side.
1:37He will join us in the third hour and just talk about this because, wow.
1:41I mean, first off, the allegations, really, really bad stuff about, I mean, sexual, not
1:47just sexual harassment, real sexual assault allegations.
1:50It was, and a lot of cases, people on the record, total mess.
1:54Okay. Now, that's about the domestic politics front.
1:57I actually want to start us off, though, Clay, and we can get to some
2:01of the latest from Trump last night at Andrew's joint base.
2:07But the situation with the Iran and the Iran war, the straight -to -form moves.
2:13So here's what happened. As some of us expected and predicted, the negotiations, which went
2:20on for 21 hours in Pakistan, went exactly nowhere.
2:24Iran is like, absolutely not.
2:27Your red lines and our red lines are in conflict, as in there are things
2:31that Iran is just flatly refusing to do that we will not bend on either.
2:36No deal. And so, Clay, this brings us to this current moment where Trump has
2:43said, okay, so you've already basically violated the ceasefire because you're at least threatening.
2:49Now, that's a little bit.
2:50They haven't blown up any ships or anything.
2:52They haven't crossed that red line.
2:54But Iran is claiming the right to board ships, to take money, or to effectively
3:00hold the ship almost hostage, right, to take a $2 million per ship bounty.
3:05And they've mined the Strait of Hormuz, too.
3:08Trump has said, all right, you know what we're going to do?
3:10We now control the Strait of Hormuz, and we're going to let some ships go,
3:15but we're not going to let Iranian ships go.
3:17So, Clay, we have now seen Trump say, we're going to blockade you, Iran.
3:22We were being nice before, but now you're going to have a full -on oil
3:26blockade. You, my friend, Mr.
3:29Clay, are the optimistic voice on the achievement of these goals with Iran.
3:37How are you feeling about this right now?
3:40Well, this is kind of what I expected to happen on the blockade, arguing that
3:47Trump was frustrated with the way the media had covered this by saying that Iran
3:52controlled the Strait of Hormuz, which you, I think, summed it up well by saying,
3:58basically, they're trying to take the Strait of Hormuz hostage.
4:00And, effectively, they are threatening terrorism, which is not a sign of control.
4:07It's just a sign that you are crazy and you're willing to extract a toll
4:12from people who are trying to be law -abiding and go about the business of
4:16oil and commerce otherwise. So, it doesn't surprise me at all that President Trump says,
4:22okay, if you're going to be picking and choosing who you're going to allow in
4:28and out of the Strait of Hormuz, we are going to put a blockade, we're
4:31going to control ingress and egress, and we're not going to allow Iranian oil to
4:36reach global markets. Now, I pulled this because I thought it was significant, because this
4:43is where now we go to the economic impact here.
4:49Roughly, there is, and I think you said this on the program back in the
4:53day, that about 20 % of overall exports, that oil and gas, about 20 %
5:02of the overall Iranian economy, but by far, other than your beloved pistachios, which, by
5:09the way, have surged in cost as Iran is a top pistachio exporting economy.
5:21If you thought pistachio creme brulee was fancy before, it is now the cat.
5:24br of sweet desserts no doubt and so the reality is the iranian economy basically
5:33does not work if they're not getting a lot of oil and gas brought into
5:37their uh into their country and so trump has said okay instead of iran being
5:43able to pick and choose who gets through we're going to set up a blockade
5:46and we're going to control this now the real issue i think is not going
5:51to be the straight of four moves i think that what will happen there is
5:55iran will agree to open back up the straight of four moves eventually and in
6:01the process uh we will unfreeze many of their assets that are frozen right now
6:06in foreign banks that allow them to do business and frankly that allow the corrupt
6:11ruling regime of iran to remain wealthy here is i think the crux of all
6:17this buck and here's my prediction it's the uranium you're right i think that iran
6:22will not just give up nuclear ambition or hand over the uranium but based on
6:28what we know happened when we rescued the airman who was uh hiding in a
6:33crevice in an iranian mountain and we basically built an airfield we had to abandon
6:38some of the planes but we established we will leave no man behind uh as
6:43a part of rescuing him i think it was also kind of an interesting test
6:47because what we established is we can build an airfield we can take our people
6:51in and out of iran and they really can't do anything about it we can
6:55set up a perimeter that surrounds all of those assets on the ground and due
7:01to our air superiority iran can't really get to them so we talked about this
7:06before it feels to me buck if the uranium is seizable if it's seizable we
7:12don't know because it's buried how how long would it take to reach is it
7:15reachable to me the cinematic into this feels like trump is going to want to
7:22seize their uranium pull it out of the country have a grand uh huge special
7:28operation iran to me may not uh necessarily oppose that because it doesn't make them
7:36look weak in the country to me it's weaker if they hand it over voluntarily
7:41if we take it they can lie to their people just say it didn't happen
7:45that feels like some form of resolution that would be of a scope that could
7:50allow us to say okay this is over i think with the current government there
7:55which is the same as the old government it's just new people uh the if
7:59they agree to just give over the uranium they think they would end up with
8:03bullets in the back of their head correct and taking a dirt nap forever i
8:06think that's and by the way i think that's correct so that's not happening it's
8:10a form of world they cannot agree to in their own leadership they absolutely cannot
8:17agree to it they would be signing their own death warrants i think because remember
8:21they can agree to it and then there's people around them who are probably thinking
8:27they should be in charge anyway and it just gets really easy to be the
8:31one who is eliminated because then you would also have created all of this carnage
8:36and chaos to protect an asset that you then give over no it has to
8:40be taken it has to then so you're right about that it has to be
8:43taken now here's where this gets to me interesting all right iran is playing a
8:49game here too and their game is who can last longer politically versus economically as
8:56in economically yes america is the world's energy superpower we don't get that much oil
9:01from iran we're going to be fine oil prices are going to rise and they
9:05might rise pretty considerably and they've already been rising no one can really predict how
9:10high that they'll go but they're going to rise okay but what are the politics
9:14of this look like here at home can iran hold out to the point where
9:18republicans are begging the administration for mercy essentially saying we are going to learn uh
9:25lose 30 seats in the house we are going to get absolutely crushed in this
9:30midterm election unless you stop this you can come back to it later right this
9:35is the thing republics can say hold on no one's saying mr commander -in -chief
9:39you can't finish the job but you got to give us some kind of an
9:44agreement here until the midterm so that we're not focused in on this and of
9:48course iran's whole game here is no no maximum maximum pain maximum disunity at home
9:55but i i gotta say i was i was knew that the i mean the
9:59pakistan thing clay yeah i wouldn't if they had asked me to go along just
10:03to observe i mean it might have been interesting to go but they said buck
10:06do you want to be involved this negotiation i would say no because it's going
10:09nowhere it's a total waste of time and it was total waste of time but
10:13trump now saying okay we're doing a full -on iranian blockade that's interesting that's now
10:21ratcheting this up and that what's iran's move either sit there and think they can
10:25wait it out or clay if the pain gets high enough in iran maybe they
10:29blow up a tanker those are their options their options are continue this game of
10:33chicken or go for the well not the nuclear option thankfully but their absolute their
10:40absolute final option is blow up a tanker in the strait of hormones and see
10:45what happens i don't i don't know if they'll do it they could do it
10:48so this also comes back to if they'll do it so this also comes back
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10:52of a tanker in the strait of a tank can we extract the uranium but
10:55buck this comes back to my oil and gas that's that's a ground assault with
11:00a lot of people just to be clear that's not like you know that's not
11:03a small thing that's a big trump is i'm telling you this is going to
11:07appeal to trump's cinematic nature i i just if it's doable i'm not sure it's
11:11doable because it may be so buried that we can't even get access to the
11:16uranium i think it's doable i think we would have to set up a forward
11:18operating base on the fly yes much like what we did to rescue the airmen
11:25which is kind of a little bit of a test of whether that would have
11:27to set up we would have to set up a cordon a security cordon with
11:32an air corridor where we had but now you're talking about setting up a forward
11:37operating base on the ground in a sovereign nation that still has about a half
11:40a million men under arms in their military i mean this is like really intense
11:46operational stuff if you ask our delta guys can they pull this off they'll be
11:50like yeah of course just tell us mr president like they'll do it so it's
11:54possible but i did that would be the most i don't know if there is
11:58a more because the iranians know where it is so they know where they have
12:02to set up their reinforcements and set up their uh their protection you know i
12:07don't know man i i wonder what those pentagon reports look like about what kind
12:10of assets the iranians can bring to bear to try to defend them here is
12:14the other part of this buck that i think is significant um this is what
12:19we were talking about with oil and gas in america being a next net exporting
12:23country now oil and gas numbers haven't moved that much and so even with the
12:29blockade now set up the uh expense here has been priced in and a lot
12:35of the benefit it inures to american energy companies so it's very different and again
12:41the the economic reality iran can't function if we don't allow them to sell their
12:47oil and gas for a few weeks here i don't even think prices at this
12:52point would move very much i think they're basically stable at this point in time
12:56and as a result um i think trump has a lot more economic power than
13:01a lot of people have recognized and that's why the blockade move did not surprise
13:06me and to your point now's the question on iran i think if they seize
13:11the uranium it's actually helpful and it sounds crazy to iran because it allows them
13:18to avoid the bullets in the back of the head scenario where if they truly
13:22give up their uranium they're in a situation where the people in positions of power
13:27there can't stay in power we'll take some of your calls um we may have
13:31some special ops guys out there uh how feasible is the extraction of the uranium
13:37buck the other thing trump would love about this is it embarrasses george w bush
13:42on iraq because there were no wmds if he shows up with uranium canisters and
13:48says boom we went and took this out it is a different level of success
13:53and it demonstrates just how different uh that situation in iran was with iraq i
13:59just it feels like this is what's going to appeal the most to trump is
14:02it risky yes but it feels like a way to end this sometime in the
14:07next couple of weeks we'll see take your calls on this one very interesting situation
14:14playing out there and and we haven't even gotten into the domestic political front as
14:19much as we will with uh swallow and all that so you guys we could
14:22have a republican governor of california this could happen so we'll talk about that with
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15:26sense never sounded so good clay and buck owning the airwaves welcome back in clay
15:33travis buck sexton show uh as is often the case a bit of a show
15:39uh surrounding president trump as he was just having a press conference outside the oval
15:44office immediately preceding it uh in order to focus on his no tax on tips
15:51policy he had a door dash delivery to the oval office from a grandma named
15:59sharon um and the president gave her a hundred dollar bill as a tip which
16:06sharon was very happy about i'm sure buck this is actually i don't know who
16:11has the job this is very funny of contacting doordash and doing a search on
16:18the best doordash delivery for president trump to get his mcdonald's at the white house
16:24obviously going through security i presume that they also would prefer that it be a
16:29trump supporting door dasher in the dc area who is unlikely to throw a huge
16:35uh crazy fit when they're knocking on the door of the oval office to deliver
16:40mcdonald's to the president but this happens buck and then he steps outside still standing
16:46next to the grandma door dash mcdonald's delivery person and has a press conference about
16:53what should happen next with iran so all of this is uh happening in real
16:59time um and uh let's see uh we've got a couple of different cuts there
17:05um we mentioned that trump said either iran gives up what he called the nuclear
17:10dust or we will take it um trump also addressed buck he got into uh
17:16uh going back and forth with the pope he also from his truth social account
17:21shared a image of himself that looked like jesus trump addressed that and said uh
17:29hey i thought that uh the jesus picture was depicting me as a doctor um
17:35this is trump 36 i'm sorry come on mr president did you post that picture
17:42of yourself depicted as jesus christ well it wasn't a picture it was me i
17:47i did post it and i thought it was me as a doctor and had
17:51to do with red cross as a red cross worker there which we support and
17:55uh only the fake news could come up with that one so i i had
17:59uh i just heard about it and i said how did they come up with
18:03that it's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better and i do
18:08make people better i make people uh a lot better all right um i thought
18:14it looked like him as jesus uh but he has deleted the image so trump
18:19says he thought he was being depicted as a doctor not not as jesus okay
18:23let's just let's just all be let's all be upright trump knew that he wasn't
18:28a doctor but this is the most trump thing ever he's like all right whatever
18:31i thought it was a doctor he knows and we know but he also knows
18:35that this now is kind of an off -ramp people that felt like it was
18:38blasphemy and i know people would feel that way they they can you know he's
18:42he's created a uh a fig leaf if you will of uh of plausible deniability
18:50on his uh i am jesus thing so there we can all move on but
18:53it's not doing this with a smile on his face he knows what's going on
18:56he did not apologize to the pope uh so the pope versus trump feud um
19:01is uh is ongoing but uh he did uh we said earlier either they give
19:07it up meaning the nuclear dust as he called it or we take it which
19:11i thought was the most significant news but he was also asked what happens if
19:15we don't have a deal uh with iran by the time the ceasefire is over
19:20uh here is cut 38 president trump responding to that it won't be pleasant he
19:36said he didn't want to comment on it he also buck uh commented on cuba
19:41um which venezuela if you wonder how things are going in venezuela it's going so
19:46well that nobody's even writing about uh venezuela at all uh cuba remains unclear exactly
19:51what's going to happen there uh but trump uh addressed that cut 37 he was
19:57asked about cuba cuba's another story cuba's been a terribly run country for a long
20:02time it's got a bad system it's been very oppressive as you know and we
20:07have a lot of great cuban americans all of whom just about voted for me
20:10and they were treated very badly in many cases family members have been killed they've
20:15been beaten up and mugged and like terrible things happened in cuba and cuba's a
20:21failing nation and we're gonna do this and we may stop by cuba after we're
20:26finished with this but cuba is a nation that was just been horribly run for
20:31many years by castro um okay uh now we said uh that we would buck
20:38talk about the swalwell implications um and so at the top of this hour let's
20:43dive into this a bit um steve hilton top of the third hour uh so
20:48eric swalwell congressman many of you know him he's been one of the most virulently
20:53anti -trump forces for the last decade basically his entire political career is based on
20:59being anti -trump i would say before this most famous for his escapades with fang
21:06fang the alleged chinese spy correct um and uh and obviously he was able to
21:15stay on the house intelligence committee he was kind of a pit bull fair to
21:19say for nancy pelosi represents the bay area suburbs and things are not going well
21:25so look we talk a lot about the midterms and where things are setting up
21:29and it is going to be right now it appears a challenging environment uh for
21:34republicans as is often the case when you are in the white house now in
21:40california though a lot of the time the two leading candidates have been steve hilton
21:45and chad bianco uh uh you who is, both of those guys are Republicans.
21:50And Eric Swalwell had been the leading Democrat candidate.
21:56He had been endorsed by the teachers unions, by a lot of the other labor
22:00unions, and he was in a position where it seemed like he was going to
22:05advance to the runoff. And then, Buck, I want to get your read on this.
22:09It feels like basically the Democrat Party just ordered a code red on him.
22:14I don't buy that they had no idea about his behavior or that there were
22:20a lot of stories. In fact, he had been asked about them when he was
22:24seeking all these endorsements, and his response had always been, as anti -Trump as I
22:29am, don't you think those stories would have come out?
22:32This is paraphrasing him. As anti -Trump as I am, don't you think those stories
22:36would have already come out if they were there?
22:39Well, a bunch of these stories have come out.
22:42So, among them, one of his former aides accused him of sexual assault.
22:49And then there are other allegations, as we have talked about, that basically he was
22:54engaging in extramarital affairs and sending pictures of himself, naked photos of himself.
23:01Yes, a part of himself.
23:03He wasn't taking selfies of his face, at least.
23:07Genital photos. I don't know.
23:08What can we say on this?
23:09Penis pics? Can we say that?
23:10I said it, to women that he was not married to, which is pretty reckless
23:16for anyone in Congress, much less when you are married and one of the leading
23:22contenders to be the governor of California.
23:24So, Buck, it feels like to me Democrats basically decided we're going to order the
23:29code red on him. I will say this, unlike the way that he treated Brett
23:34Kavanaugh and unlike the way that he treated President Trump, I think he's entitled to
23:39a presumption of innocence here.
23:40And you can read these allegations skeptically.
23:44I just want to say, he was a believe -all -women guy when he was
23:48trying to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's life on absolutely baseless, absurd, fantastical, fantasy -level allegations against
23:58Kavanaugh. No intelligent, honest person believed that Kavanaugh was a serial gang rapist all throughout
24:07high school. And this was just coming up.
24:09By the way, it was really...
24:10I've said this. It was a political 9 -11 moment for me, the whole Kavanaugh
24:14thing. It was when we realized, a lot of us, that the era of Trump
24:19as a brass knuckle brawler against the other side was so very, very necessary because
24:26they have no scruples. The Democrats have no willingness whatsoever to abide by fair play,
24:33decency, basic ethics. They all knew that Kavanaugh...
24:39By the way, Kamala Harris was a big part of it, too.
24:41Don't ever forget that, everybody.
24:42Kamala Harris was a big part of it.
24:44But Swalwell was a believe -all -women guy, which is on its face an absurd
24:50and antithetical to our justice system way of approaching cases.
24:55Of course, this was insane.
24:59And it was one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in American politics.
25:03It was the ritualized humiliation and degradation of a manifestly innocent man with Supreme Court
25:10Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Not guilty.
25:13Innocent. It was clear he did none of these things.
25:16Okay? The woman couldn't remember the year.
25:19Said she had two... Couldn't fly, but actually would go to Cabo on vacation.
25:23Didn't know where the house was.
25:25Didn't know what year it was.
25:26Blasey Ford is a liar.
25:28Yes. A liar. Okay? And the others were lunatics.
25:32Lunatics. And I would just say this, Buck.
25:37I mean, even if that had all been true, this is the way I always
25:40kind of approach it. Are you telling me that trying to make out with a
25:44girl when you are... Because, I mean, it was a high school party.
25:49It's 40 years ago, or whatever the heck it was, in the 1980s in Washington,
25:55D .C. It wasn't even a crime.
25:57Like, even if everything that she had alleged was 100 % true, which is one
26:02of the ways, like when you're a lawyer, you say for purposes of, you know,
26:05does it withstand summary judgment?
26:07Presume that everything is true.
26:09Even if it had all been true, it wouldn't have been a crime.
26:13I don't even think it would have been disqualifying for being a Supreme Court justice,
26:16even if you accept everything.
26:18But he was a believe -all woman, which is ludicrous.
26:20I'm giving him what he would not, which is, I read these allegations, Buck, and
26:25I think that I'm kind of skeptical of the crime, of the fact that there
26:30was a crime. The criminal was.
26:31Yeah. So there's two different things here.
26:33There's criminal stuff, and there's unbecoming of, and, you know, unfit to be in office
26:39stuff. Right? Those are two separate categories.
26:41I mean, they obviously cross over.
26:42If you're doing crimes, you're also unfit.
26:44But there are things that don't rise to.
26:46Now, it can be if you're sending, like, because Anthony Weiner, which you can't make
26:54up that that was really his name, given what went on here.
26:56I mean, you know, just putting that aside.
26:58I'm not trying to be childish or, you know, but it really was absurd.
27:03But that guy was sending Weiner photos to an underage girl and knew she was
27:12underage. That is a crime.
27:15And he got us. He got nailed on that, as he should.
27:18But with this, sending those unsolicited...
27:21Also, I think Ann Coulter actually put this out on who we had on recently
27:26and did a great job on the border stuff.
27:27But she said, it's almost always unsolicited, right?
27:31Like, if you're a stranger, how many strangers are like, you know what I want
27:36from this congressman right now?
27:37A photo of his man parts.
27:40I don't think that's a thing.
27:42I don't think women really ever want these photos.
27:43This is one of many major differences between men and women.
27:49Men would always like to see a naked photo.
27:52So I think in many men's minds, this is something that women desire as much
27:59as men desire. So having said all of this...
28:05Wait, women never want these photos, and men generally are like, hey...
28:09Men in their head are thinking, oh, because men want to see naked photos of
28:14women, either one of two things.
28:15Women are as interested in naked photos as we are, which is almost never true.
28:19Or he's thinking, if I send her a naked photo, she's going to send me
28:23a naked photo back. If I were in his head, that's what I would expect
28:26that he was thinking. Having said all of this, this was not well -kept secret,
28:32Buck. Everybody on Capitol Hill was aware that this dude was chasing chicks, and they
28:38didn't care until they started to see there might be a political cost to the
28:44party writ large based on his behavior.
28:46They were covering this up.
28:50They were covering it up for years because he was useful.
28:54The second he became a political liability, to use your phrase here, or to use
28:59Tom Cruise slash Colonel Nathan R.
29:02Jessup, United States Marine Corps, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's phrase, the code read.
29:07They ordered the code read on him, and it's so interesting to see why.
29:10And we'll talk to Steve Hilton, who's his primary Republican opponent in that California governor's
29:14race in the top of the next hour, but Clay, what this tells you is
29:19that if he was free and clear to be governor, if he was going to
29:23sail through and win this election without causing any problems, do you think they would
29:28have done this? No. Because I believe if he can win, even if this came
29:32out after he was in office, they would say, first of all, it wouldn't come
29:36out this way. So they wouldn't run it.
29:38This was a total destruction campaign to take out Swalwell from this governor's race, and
29:46they were effective in doing so.
29:47Yes. But the reminder for everybody, this is not about what is honest or ethical
29:51or good. So funny. Do you see Stelter?
29:54He's like, this shows the power of journalism.
29:58I'm like, Stelter, honestly, man, I'm going to send you TRT in the mail if
30:02it's something I can do.
30:03We can't have this anymore, buddy.
30:05That is really, really funny, the power of journalism.
30:07Here's what I think happened.
30:08I think that the other opponents on the Democrat side got wind of this.
30:13I think the Katie Porters of the world said, if this doesn't come out now,
30:18then the story will come out after he's the nominee, and it might cost us
30:22the governorship, and the Democrat Party ordered the code red.
30:26They said, hey, we're going to stop protecting him now.
30:29It's time to take him out.
30:32That's the way I think this went down.
30:35Well, yeah, I think there were concerns.
30:37So that's interesting. I think there were concerns that he was splitting the vote, and
30:41that at the end of this, it was going to make a Republican much more
30:44viable. You think, because, Clay, there's no Republican infrastructure to run this story.
30:49We couldn't run this story.
30:51No, I think... The only reason it takes him out is because it was New
30:55York Times and Politico, and it was home team hit job.
30:58San Francisco Chronicle initially broke it on Friday afternoon.
31:01So who's going to come out with this, though?
31:02Who's going to come out?
31:03If he's up against a Republican and a general, if it's one -to -one, and
31:07they're the two from the jungle primary, San Francisco Chronicle doesn't do that.
31:10No way. You think so?
31:12No way they run this to give it to a Republican.
31:15I think Katie Porter went to them.
31:17We'll talk about this more and said, yeah, I've got the goods here.
31:20It was definitely a code red.
31:22The question is, what was the thinking of the people running it, right?
31:24So we'll come back into this.
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32:42Clay and Bob. third hour of play in buck kicks off with the one and
32:48only steve hilton everybody he is running as a republican for governor of the beautiful
32:55state the poorly governed but beautiful state of california and steve hilton is with us
33:01now steve busy times my friend thank you for coming here we have been early
33:07steve hilton adopters you could say in this whole process been having you on now
33:11from the very beginning to get the word out to our very large audience of
33:16californians who are behind liberal lines there and listening in to what's going on here
33:21on clay and buck let's start with we got to just start with this the
33:25swalwell situation was this a surprise to you when it hit and why do you
33:30think it hit now yeah thanks guys i mean the the timing was definitely a
33:36surprise but the fact of it was not at all a surprise this has been
33:40an open secret for as long as certainly on for me i've known about this
33:45people talk about it including democrats in sacramento for as long as he's been in
33:49the race probably longer it's an open secret on capitol hill certainly in sacramento and
33:54it just shows you the fact that despite that he got the endorsement of the
33:58big you the teacher unions the fciu adam schiff all these nancy pelosi acolytes it
34:04just shows you how corrupt cynical and arrogant these people are these career politicians who
34:09just think they can get away with anything doesn't matter what they say or do
34:13there'll be no consequences it's the kind of arrogance you get from 16 years of
34:17one party ruling california honestly all they care about is their power just think about
34:21all their endless lectures on you know women's rights the war of gender equality me
34:26too blah blah blah they don't believe any of it it's all about their power
34:31the machine was moving behind swalwell actually everyone expected him to get the machine's endorsement
34:38even with all this going on um finally it it came out i didn't expect
34:43it but it's very good news because it means that when it kind of clarifies
34:47the situation somewhat um and the thing that it really shows is that uh we
34:52are so desperately in need of change in california there's this sort of collapsing of
34:57the california democrats into chaos and sleaze and scandal just another really powerful indication of
35:04why we so desperately need change why did it happen now buck and i have
35:09been discussing debating contemplating why at this point he was the leader do you think
35:15there was a fear uh that he was going to be the nominee and that
35:19it might come out after he was one of the two finalists do you think
35:23this was katie porter do you think it was tom steyer where did this come
35:28from now as you said the rumors have been out there for a long time
35:31about him he even addressed them in some of his endorsement uh interviews reports are
35:36why now so i don't know but what i'm hearing very strongly um including from
35:43from people i know on the democrat side and from reporters following the race is
35:47that it's tom steyer that that's what people are saying now just to be clear
35:50i have no evidence for that um but that is what everybody is saying that
35:55it's tom steyer who's got unlimited money you know he's this billionaire climate fanatic as
36:00we know um he's already spent over a hundred million dollars on his race just
36:05in the last few months with these endless ads that are driving everyone crazy in
36:10california um you know it's lifted him up from two or three percent to 10
36:14or 11 percent so it's kind of working for him in a pathetic sort of
36:17way you could say and he's spending money on this kind of thing as well
36:21katie porter by the way blames tom steyer for the leaking of all those videos
36:25of her um berating her staff and so on she thinks that's tom steyer and
36:31she thinks there's more of that to come and so i don't know i'm just
36:34reporting what i hear this is remarkable stuff and now we see what a total
36:41mess whether we're not surprised at all that the democrats have been willing the democrat
36:46media i should say well all of it together the whole apparatus to keep this
36:49stuff under wraps as you said it has been known that he's sketchy for a
36:54long time i remember doing tucker's show on fox years ago and tucker just couldn't
36:58stop laughing about the fang fang thing so i mean this is there's been a
37:01lot of smoke uh before this fire came out a lot of people very much
37:06dialed in on swalwell being uh a sketchy a sketchy fellow um in terms of
37:13the other so you think it's steyer because again the timing of this why not
37:17keep him off the ballot entirely at some level incompetence here among democrats i think
37:21is something we shouldn't uh keep off the table right meaning that they just this
37:26happened they weren't paying close enough attention and then it came up later on but
37:30what does this do explain now the rest of the field so swalwell is out
37:34can you take us through the reordering i believe you're at the top of this
37:38whole thing the reordering of the candidates and how you think this shifts the race
37:42yeah so remember we got this top two system which is ridiculous the top two
37:47candidates go through regardless of party um for most of this year the top two
37:53candidates have been me and the other republican um and i've been leading and my
37:58lead has been growing but it's pretty much been the top two a couple of
38:02times more recently swalwell's been in the top two a lot of republicans have therefore
38:06been saying oh this is great we'll have two republicans in the top two a
38:10lot of että and so i think that's where you will continue and make a
38:10decision because uh chi And that means we're guaranteed a change in California.
38:13I've always said that that's a fantasy, that the Democrat machine is not just going
38:17to hand over California. They'll spend whatever it takes to make sure that there's a
38:22Democrat in the top two.
38:24The unions will. They've got tens of millions of dollars, or Steyer.
38:27So I always said the more important thing is to make sure there's a Republican
38:31in the top two by ensuring that we don't split the vote and make sure
38:35that there's one strong leading candidate.
38:36Now, for most of this year, I've been leading, not by much, but two, three
38:41points ahead. That lead has been growing in the last couple of weeks.
38:46So, for example, there were two polls last week.
38:49One had me 19%, everyone else 13 % and below.
38:52Another one, ironically, from Eric Swalwell's backers, had me at 22%, Swalwell at 18%, everyone
38:59else 12%, 13%. And those polls were taken before the big news last Sunday, on
39:06Easter Sunday, that President Trump had endorsed me in the governor's race.
39:10That's a huge moment. And so we can expect my lead to grow and a
39:16consolidation to happen on our side, on the Republican side.
39:19That's very important because what you might also see is the Swalwell support, let's call
39:25it, I don't know, 15%, 16%, split evenly.
39:28It's not obvious to me where that would go, either Tom Steyer or Katie Porter.
39:33I don't know, maybe some of the other lower polling candidates.
39:35But in other words, Steyer and Porter, you would expect to move up a bit.
39:40And that's why it's very important we make sure that we have one Republican and
39:45get behind me. That's been my message for weeks.
39:48And that's even more important now as you're going to get a consolidation on the
39:52Democrat side. My expectation right now is as we move towards Election Day, remember, ballots
39:58go out in three weeks in California.
40:00You're going to see a kind of top three emerging, which is myself, Tom Steyer,
40:06and Katie Porter. And the most important thing is we don't let that top three
40:10become a Democrat top two.
40:11We're talking to Steve Hilton running for governor of California.
40:16Ballots go out, as you just heard from him, in just a few weeks.
40:20And the actual primary is on June 3rd.
40:24You're campaigning all over California.
40:27We not only have talked about Eric Swalwell, but the situation in Iran.
40:32There are more expats with Iranian backgrounds in the L .A.
40:37area probably than anywhere else in the country.
40:40I'm curious, what are you hearing about Iran in California when you're out on the
40:45campaign trail? It's a hugely energizing factor.
40:48I mean, I don't know the exact number, but like hundreds of thousands, I think
40:53it's over a million across the state, half a million.
40:55L .A. is the largest city outside Iran of Iran.
40:58It's a really, really big community here, very powerful, very important voice in our state
41:04and in politics, all now 100 % pretty much lined up behind President Trump, appreciative
41:10of what he's done. And I see it all over.
41:13I was actually last Sunday before the president's endorsement.
41:18I was at a major Iranian event for the end of New Year in Uruz
41:21in the Bay Area. A fantastic reception there where I made the point that, you
41:28know, I'm not in I don't know what's going to happen in Iran, but we
41:32are certainly fighting for regime change here in California, making that connection.
41:36And it's really powerful. And we've got two major events with the Iranian community in
41:41L .A. just coming up in the next couple of weeks.
41:43It's a very, very big part of the story.
41:46What are the dominoes, politically speaking?
41:48We're speaking to Steve Hilton, everybody.
41:51He's running for governor in California.
41:53Republicans in California, now is your chance to step up and try to change things.
41:58He says regime change in California, which is a very good way to put it.
42:01What are the dominoes, Steve, that have to fall in your favor for this to
42:06go from you at the top of the pack to you winning the governor's mansion?
42:11I mean, you know, is it some concession from the police union?
42:14Is it independent voters in the California interior?
42:18I mean, just take us through a little bit of what has to happen for
42:21you to actually win this thing.
42:23The top of that list is a really strong Republican turnout, because actually, if you
42:28look at the numbers, I make this point all the time.
42:30If you just try and project the turnout in the November election here in California
42:37by taking an average of the last two, 2018 and 2022, the total number of
42:41votes, as an estimate, is 11 .7 million.
42:45That's the total. So to win, you need just over half of that.
42:48Call it 5 .9 million.
42:50President Trump in California in 2024 got 6 .1 million votes.
42:54In other words, there are enough Republican votes in California for me to win, just
43:00with Republican votes, if they all turn out.
43:03Now, of course, it's very hard.
43:06It's not easy to get a presidential year turnout in a midterm election.
43:11But that's the starting point.
43:13And we've got two very, very powerful things going in our favor for that, because
43:17on the ballot this November in California, as well as all the candidates, will be
43:22two ballot initiatives that Republicans particularly are enthusiastic about.
43:27Number one is Save Prop 13.
43:29That's a taxpayer protection measure, particularly on property taxes.
43:33And the big one, really, is voter ID.
43:37So whatever happens with the safety...
43:38America Act in California will have the chance to vote for voter ID this November.
43:44That's a real turnout driver among Republicans, so that's going to be very important.
43:49But beyond that, of course, we want to build our support beyond the Republican turnout.
43:55And I think that my simple message, which is, you know, you can capture it
43:59in one word. That's what we've been taking up and down the state.
44:02Cal affordable, making our state Cal affordable with a very specific plan.
44:06$3 gas, cut your electric bills in half, your first $100 ,000 tax -free, no
44:12more free health care for illegal immigrants.
44:14So we lower health care costs for you, a home you can afford to buy.
44:18That goes way beyond party lines.
44:20It's just common sense, pragmatic, positive, practical stuff.
44:24And I think that's how we're going to win.
44:26Do you think there will be any more funny business?
44:29You mentioned Tom Steyer potentially as the candidate behind coming after Swalwell.
44:34Well, Katie Porter has had a bunch of videos come out of her looking awful.
44:39She's also got the boiling water and potatoes poured on her ex -husband's head story.
44:46Not exactly a very likable person.
44:48How much more funny business do you think is coming in this race?
44:53Yeah, there's a lot of expectation that Katie Porter is next.
44:57Because there really is this assumption that Tom Steyer has been behind this and that
45:02there's plenty more to come out on Katie Porter.
45:04So I'm sure she's, you know, stealing herself for that.
45:07We'll see what it is, whether it's different or just more of the same that
45:10we've seen from her. Now, my argument is it honestly doesn't matter who they send
45:14because we're sick of these people, this corrupt Democrat machine.
45:19On the policy front, it's a total disaster.
45:21We've got the highest poverty rate, highest unemployment rate, highest cost of living in the
45:25country. None of them offer any kind of change from what we've had.
45:29And so, in a way, it doesn't matter.
45:32But, I don't know, I think we're probably going to see Tom Steyer splashing more
45:37of the cash. You know, he's already spent, as I said, over $100 million.
45:40He's probably going to double that in the next month or so, including some dirty
45:44tricks on Katie. That's what I'd expect.
45:47Can I just ask you to bring us up to speed on something?
45:49You're talking about regime change in California, which I love.
45:53And you're talking about making things affordable for people, which might stop.
45:56Now, I've got to say, I don't know if I want that to happen in
45:59some ways because you're just driving up the Florida housing prices so much.
46:02And as an owner down here now, I'm loving all these Californians who show up
46:06like, I'll pay anything. I just need to escape the madness.
46:09But to give people a sense of how this is all actually going in your
46:12state, bring us up to speed with the latest on the Palisades fire and the
46:17L .A. wildfire rebuilding situation.
46:19Because I remember Gavin Newsom saying, we're going to pull all that red tape aside.
46:23We're going to make this so easy.
46:25It's going to be like a Swiss watch.
46:26I'm hearing not so much, Steve.
46:29How's that going? Nothing. In fact, one of the Iranian events that we're going to
46:33be holding in the next couple of weeks is in the Palisades, in the ruins
46:38of a house that hasn't been rebuilt because there's no permit.
46:41You know, it's just unbelievable.
46:44There's a little bit of construction going on.
46:46But what's really outrageous is the fact that they are absolutely using it to push
46:51the ideological agenda of replacing a beautiful single -family neighborhood with apartment buildings, low -income
46:59apartment buildings. That is what they're pushing.
47:00And so there is this sense that these people are just ideologues who absolutely don't
47:07care about just doing what the basic job of government should be, which is get
47:11out of the way, provide the basics so that people can live their lives.
47:14No, they're constantly pushing this ideological agenda.
47:18So in a way, it's now worse than the incompetence of not issuing the permits
47:21and, of course, the incompetence that led to the fire in the first place.
47:25It's the actual, you know, exploitation of this for an ideological agenda to change the
47:31character of the Palisades that's got people so enraged.
47:34And I'm seeing it in the events we're doing in L .A.
47:37There's one this week, which is it's an event that we're doing, which is mainly
47:40Democrats, including some very surprising, you know, people who've been completely lockstep with the Democrat
47:47supporters and fundraisers and donors for many, many years coming along to my, you know,
47:53hosting and holding events for me in L .A.
47:55There's something there's something going on in California.
47:58I really feel it more and more every week that people are sick of what's
48:02been happening. And I think the Swalwell thing just adds to that.
48:05They're just disgusted by it, honestly.
48:07And oh, my gosh, these people have been in power too long time for change.
48:10It's going to be very powerful feeling.
48:12And then the one thing I haven't even mentioned, which is the fraud.
48:15The fraud story is huge in California.
48:18And that's why the whole, you know, I just had on my podcast, John Coupal,
48:23who's the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
48:27Some people might remember back in 1978, it was called the Taxpayer Revolt in California.
48:32And it led to a ballot initiative, Prop 13, that put a limit on tax
48:36increases and property tax in particular.
48:38I feel like we're heading for another taxpayer revolt in California.
48:42As people see, you know, we pay the highest taxes in the country for the
48:46worst results. And now you see where your money's going, siphoned off into fraud and
48:51theft and financing the Democrat political machine.
48:55People are really fired up and enraged by that.
48:57That's going to be a big factor as well.
49:00Good stuff, as always. We encourage you to get out and vote.
49:02Steve Hilton, three weeks from now, ballots are out June 3rd.
49:06the primary we appreciate the time keep up the fight great to be with you
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50:24we got a lot of calls a lot of talkbacks a lot of things here
50:26clay who who on the live calls did you want to get to straight away
50:29you've got the live call screen in front of you there yeah the live score
50:32the live call screen has been flawless for two and a half hours and legitimately
50:37is now not up but uh okay that sounds about right for live radio nice
50:42let's do some talkbacks maybe then what do you think if we can pull back
50:46up my call screener so that i can uh type people up and let them
50:50in we do have a ton of talkbacks uh tom and wait tom and tampa
50:54is the first call let's do tom and tampa because he's waiting patiently go ahead
50:57tom yeah hey hey clay buck i've got two very very important points i wanted
51:03to just reinforce clay's original point about that with the uh uranium dust there could
51:13be some sort of deal behind the scenes with the iranians where delta goes in
51:19and takes it but iran can save face and the historical precedent for that and
51:23i'm sure clay probably knows this buck you probably do too being cia is that
51:29there was a secret deal with president kennedy behind the scenes with uh with the
51:35soviet union to pull the jupiter missiles out of turkey so there's a historical precedent
51:40for this and the second part which dovetails off my first point this is very
51:45very important is that president trump with maria bartoromo i believe it was yesterday did
51:52confess that we know exactly where the dust is and we're looking at it through
51:58satellite technology now whether any of that's true or not i'm not going to comment
52:03on but i am going to tell you that the one point feeds into the
52:06second point and really reinforces uh uh clay's original uh theory if that makes sense
52:13thank you for that's very interesting i appreciate that i think the i think the
52:18jupiter missile turkey analogy is unfortunately kind of miles away from where we are it
52:23is it is a backdoor backroom agreement to do something but this is the iranian
52:29regime considers its nuclear pro we have gone through this for over 20 years the
52:35whole point is they will not relent on this issue it would be that to
52:41have a an equivalent it would have to be that the soviets agreed to give
52:44up their nuclear program which they would obviously not have done so there's no way
52:50the iranians are going to say you know what come and take our stuff and
52:53we'll pretend like oh no don't take our stuff but like we really want you
52:56to take our stuff the only because clay if they were willing to do that
53:00then i think they'd be willing to just come up with a deal they'd be
53:03more willing to at least extend things out and be less bellicose about all this
53:07yeah we'd be hearing about it if they were reasonable i don't think these are
53:10reasonable people we're we're dealing with on the other side the speaker of the iranian
53:13parliament the modulus the uh the uh national i mean the uh what's his name
53:18foreign minister i don't think that these guys are doves i don't think they want
53:21this to go away yeah i think the the way to think through it is
53:27they are i think you said earlier they might well get killed if they allow
53:33uh give up the uranium give up the pursuit of nuclear ambition so my sort
53:39of uh thesis on this is the way we saved the airmen we had to
53:45build a brand new landing strip we had to protect the surrounding penumbra uh surrounding
53:52this guy dropping bombs air superiority all of those things it's a rough test potentially
53:58for what might be necessary to extract the uranium and president trump said earlier either
54:04they give it up or we take it referring to the so -called nuclear uh
54:08dust if that is the standard both you and i agree they're not going to
54:13voluntarily hand it over and so uh that leaves us with the option of we
54:19go and take it i think president trump likes the cinematic aspects of this um
54:24and it would serve as a repudiation of the entire wmd search in iraq which
54:29never actually uncovered any weapons of mass destruction and it would you present a clear
54:35climactic end to the incidents that are taking place in Iran.
54:41So that is what I think is maybe the most likely outcome when all is
54:45said and done. There are reports, by the way, that behind -the -scenes negotiations continue
54:51with Iran. And as we began the show today, the newest update on the ground
54:57there is that the blockade is now in force, in theory, in the Strait of
55:03Hormuz. I should also point out the price of oil and gas has actually come
55:08down today. And that also suggests that there is some form of expected settlement or
55:17there's just not a panic setting in because a lot of people said, oh my
55:21goodness, when Trump is putting in the fact that he's going to come after the
55:26Strait of Hormuz, oh my goodness, the price of oil and gas is going to
55:30skyrocket today. It is up some today, but not in a massive way.
55:35And it's at the lows of the day right now, right around 92 .85 is
55:41what I see right now as I am checking the price of oil and gas
55:45down from, I think it got up to 120 in the early days of these
55:50interactions. And it hasn't gone up very much today.
55:53So, stock market, by the way, up overall.
55:56S &P 500 now in positive territory for the year.
56:00So, there does not seem to be, Buck, any sort of substantial panic that is
56:04setting in over all of these aspects.
56:08Let's play a cut 41 here.
56:10For those of you, well, that's a long cut.
56:13Yeah, that's a little too long.
56:15That's a little too long.
56:16We can't. That's like nine minutes.
56:17I understand she's, that video that went viral, that maybe we can shorten the Katie
56:25Porter clip that went viral back in the day.
56:29And the Tom Steyer situation.
56:33I don't know how this is going to go.
56:34Candy in Texas. Cut J.
56:38Be careful. Here we go.
56:39Talk back. I once had someone send me a wiener pic.
56:43What was the most embarrassing part for the guy was, it took me a good
56:47five minutes to figure out what the picture was of.
56:51Whoa. Oh, I know. Candy.
56:57This is a, we were talking about the challenge associated with Swalwell and his future.
57:06I think that one of the interesting parts about Swalwell Buck is the number of
57:11people that said incredibly positive things about him until this story from the San Francisco
57:16Chronicle came out and everybody ran for the hills, including, including Ruben Gallego, who is
57:23rumored to be a presidential candidate and was best buds pictured riding on camels with
57:29Eric Swalwell in the Middle East.
57:30And then as soon as this story comes out, he is absolutely sprinting in the
57:36opposite direction, claiming that he never had any idea about this.
57:40And I think the idea from Steve Hilton that Tom Steyer was the guy behind
57:48all of this is interesting because Tom Steyer referred to COVID, for those of you
57:53who have forgotten, as Trump's Katrina.
57:55And I think we have Tom Steyer saying that in the cuts right now.
57:59Trump is incompetent. He is doing a terrible job on this.
58:04Mr. Trump is way late.
58:05He has no capability. He's incompetent.
58:08I think this is a huge, huge deal because this is like George W.
58:13Bush with the hurricane and flooding down in New Orleans.
58:17A total executive failure by an incompetent executive.
58:24Now, this is interesting to me, Buck, because Biden got almost a full year advance
58:29to figure out what he was going to do about COVID because COVID obviously hit
58:33in February, March 2020. Biden did not come into office until late January 2021.
58:38And as as bad as I thought Trump did in March and April of 2020
58:45dealing with COVID, Biden was infinitely worse, even with a full one year run up.
58:51And remember, the only reason they stopped making us wear masks was not anything Biden
58:56did. It was the one judge down in Florida who they finally decided not to
59:02fight against her. Some people are saying the greatest judge among all judges, she was
59:06a beautiful, she's a beauty.
59:08She stopped the masks on planes.
59:10I love her forever. I will love that woman.
59:12I've never met her. I don't even know her, but I love her.
59:15What was her name again?
59:16Judge Mizell. Am I going to get that one right?
59:18Oh, Judge Mizell. Honestly, a true, I really mean this, a true American legal hero.
59:24I think. An American legal hero.
59:26We would still be wearing masks on the planes because people are morons.
59:28The Biden base was so crazy about masks that they needed a judge to just
59:37strike it down. And I believe she was a federal district judge, just issued an
59:42individual opinion, one of the most consequential district court opinions we've seen in a long
59:45time, and just said, hey, this masking requirement is basically absurd.
59:50And remember, they had the audio of people announcing it on the airplane and people
59:54celebrating, like ripping their masks off on a bunch of different airlines back in the
59:58day. Also, Katrina is very similar to COVID.
1:00:01And. that the media was able to manufacture a whole lot more politicized rage than
1:00:07was really warranted. Bush declared a disaster in it.
1:00:11He declared it a disaster, I believe, even in advance of Katrina.
1:00:16He was within 24 hours or so.
1:00:19They had a massive deployment of active -duty troops, 7 ,000 active -duty troops, 21
1:00:28,000 National Guard deployed, U .S.
1:00:33Coast Guard, federal assets, $10 .5 billion emergency aid package within days of landfall.
1:00:41But the whole Bush thing was Kanye said, let's just be honest, Kanye said George
1:00:45Bush doesn't care about black people.
1:00:47And then that just became the thing.
1:00:49That was their whole thing.
1:00:51The reality was, you know where there was incompetence?
1:00:53You know who the idiots were when it came to Katrina?
1:00:56State and local officials. This is reality.
1:00:59Go back and look at the record.
1:01:00The people who weren't ready, who didn't have preparations, who didn't have clear lines of
1:01:04command and control. Yeah, you can always say that FEMA wasn't, you know, FEMA's a
1:01:07federal bureaucracy. It's not great.
1:01:09But in terms of what a president can do, Clay, I just want everyone to
1:01:11know this. Everyone goes, oh, that's so -and -so's Katrina.
1:01:14It's a little bit like people with McCarthy and the list of, yeah, there were
1:01:20a lot of communist penetrations of the government, my friends.
1:01:23That's reality. Do you know that?
1:01:24Did they tell you that in school?
1:01:25There were. They were all Democrats, too.
1:01:27That's why they don't tell you that in school.
1:01:28So this becomes a thing.
1:01:31You know, the Red Scare.
1:01:32Actually, there were a lot of Reds.
1:01:34And actually, Bush did not do a terrible job in Katrina.
1:01:37It was a once -in -a -century storm situation with state and local Democrats being
1:01:42total idiots. And they blamed it on Bush because they made it a race issue.
1:01:46That's really what happened. Just saying.
1:01:48You won't hear that anywhere else.
1:01:50But it is all the truth.
1:01:50You can go check it yourself.
1:01:53Let's go to phones when we come back.
1:01:55800 -282 -2882. We got a bunch of talkbacks as well.
1:01:59But I want to say, let me take a moment to tell you about a
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