Hour 1 - Zohran: Abolish ICE
3/27/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome, everybody. Friday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, known
0:09to many as Clay and Buck.
0:11Some people are saying. We have a lot to discuss today.
0:15We have more updates on Iran, of course, on the Democrats mobilizing against ICE.
0:22I got a text from somebody at LGA, LaGuardia Airport.
0:25Lines are open there, looking just fine.
0:27So, depends where you are.
0:29More on the TSA -DHS funding fight.
0:35Got Speaker Johnson getting hot under the collar about that whole thing, understandably so.
0:40That's where we are. And they're trying to find ways to blame Trump for it.
0:46Not a surprise. And there's a lot of other things.
0:49It's a Friday, so the show is going to be kind of a little ad
0:54hoc, a little extemp, a little bit of a wild ride.
0:57So, that's probably a good way to introduce our first segment of the day.
1:02Trump called in to the five, the program on Fox News with five people, makes
1:10sense, who sit around and talk about the news of the day.
1:12And Jesse Waters asked a question that perhaps some Americans were thinking about before.
1:21He wanted to know about this Ayatollah or Ayatollah Jr.
1:25Mojtaba, a little Mo, as Clay has declared him.
1:29And Jesse, Mr. Waters at Fox asked Trump the following, I want you to listen
1:34in to our Commander -in -Chief.
1:37Go ahead. Did the CIA tell you that Ayatollah Jr.
1:40is gay? Well, they did say that, but I don't know if it was only
1:44them. I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts them off to
1:47a bad start in that particular country.
1:49You know, I sort of have to smile to myself when I say, I see
1:54people trying to defend the Palestinian regime for women, women for Palestine.
2:00But they kill women. If you don't wear certain cloth all over your face, you
2:06have no chance of living.
2:08And, you know, when I look at gays for Palestine, but they kill gays.
2:13They kill them instantly. They throw them off buildings.
2:15And I'm saying, who are the gays for Palestine?
2:19Fair question. We've asked you on the program, Clay.
2:23Yeah, look, we still have not heard from Little Mo, the ostensible leader of Iran.
2:34Again, the reports are that he's severely injured, that he barely escaped death in the
2:39attack. We have not seen him on video.
2:41We've not seen any sort of written statement.
2:43We've only seen written statements.
2:45We haven't even heard audio.
2:48And, look, the continued negotiations that are underway for what a ceasefire will ultimately look
2:55like in Iran are occurring in earnest.
3:00And, again, to me, it feels like we have largely wiped Iran's military capabilities out.
3:10And now the question is, to what extent can we decide that we're okay with
3:16a ruler that we're going to negotiate with?
3:18And, Buck, we've talked about this on the program quite a bit, and I would
3:21just continue to echo it.
3:23Everything is going really, really well in Venezuela.
3:25And I believe that's because Delcy Rodriguez has been someone that the United States feels
3:31like they can have a partnership with.
3:33Is there anyone in Iran that the United States could become convinced that we can
3:39have a partnership with? I don't know the answer.
3:41I suspect that is the biggest challenge that is going on right now, is trying
3:46to figure out who is the leader that we could work with.
3:49Yes, they're probably still going to have to say America stinks and death to America
3:53and all of these aspects.
3:55But the reality is that's the biggest question I would say right now, is who
4:01is that leader that we could work with?
4:04And, by the way, we should also mention, in addition to President Trump calling into
4:08the Five, and we got a bunch of clips from that, there does seem to
4:12be some positive momentum on TSA agents being paid.
4:16It's a huge mess. Trump said he would use his emergency powers to do it.
4:19I suspect the Democrats would have challenged those emergency powers.
4:23But there was a bill passed at 3 a .m.
4:25this morning that, in theory, is going to get TSA agents paid.
4:30That is the absolute latest there as we are working through those two biggest stories,
4:39I would say, so far.
4:40Also, Trump, not only noting that the CIA told him Mojkaba is probably gay, or
4:49maybe gay, Trump wants everyone to remember that he actually did quite well with the
4:55gay vote. This was also from the Five.
4:57Play two. I did very well with the gay vote, okay?
5:04I even played the gay national anthem as my walk -off, okay?
5:10And I think it probably helped me, but I did great with no Republicans ever
5:14gotten the gay vote like I did, and I'm very proud of it.
5:17I think it's great. Perhaps it's because I'm from New York City.
5:20I don't know. It is interesting that the...
5:24Two, I believe, highest -ranking cabinet members who are gay in the history.
5:30I mean, and again, I don't care about what people's sexuality is.
5:35I care whether or not they're going to do a good job.
5:38Trump was basically like, much time is gay, not that there's anything wrong with it.
5:42That's right. That's exactly what he was saying.
5:44For those of you who are old -school Seinfeld fans, that was one of the
5:47great Jerry and George conversations back in the day.
5:51Okay, Scott Besson is, I believe, the highest -ranking official who is gay, who happens
5:58to be gay in the history of the United States.
6:00And as Treasury Secretary, it seems to me that he's done a pretty phenomenal job,
6:04but his sexuality is not that important to his ability to do the job.
6:08Now, this is where we're talking about gay people.
6:11My good friend and your good friend, Mayor Pete, every time I see a poll
6:15book on Democrat 2028 presidential contenders, Mayor Pete is either getting 1%, 2%, or 0
6:24% support from the black community.
6:25It is the case that while Democrats like to accuse Republicans of being homophobic, the
6:33reality is the most anti -gay element of any political coalition right now in the
6:40United States, black guys are not voting for gay people.
6:44And Mayor Pete has no chance to get the black vote at all.
6:49And every time you look at the numbers, white people love Mayor Pete.
6:54Mayor Pete's going to do great in Iowa.
6:56He's going to do great in New Hampshire.
6:58And then he's going to get down to the South, where lots of black voters
7:01are part of the primary season.
7:03And he's going to get no votes in South Carolina, no votes in Tennessee, no
7:08votes in Alabama, Georgia, all these different states that are significant when it comes to
7:13propelling the eventual Democrat nominee to that nomination.
7:17So, it is funny when you just think about it, and we'll see what ends
7:24up happening as the 2028 aspects start to play out.
7:29But again, while Trump gets accused of being homophobic, the actual data reflects that the
7:34most homophobic part of any political party is actually black voters.
7:39And now we have Trump also addressing, from that call into the five, addressing two
7:46things, really. One is the Democrats clearly want things in Iran to go badly, and
7:52that has not happened in the way that they would like to, which is a
7:56bleak thing to say, but it is a true thing to say.
7:59Also, they want to feel like there's a MAGA civil war underway where Trump's base
8:06is fleeing from him over this.
8:08If that were happening, we would know, Clay and I would know, because you would
8:13tell us, because you are overwhelmingly MAGA base.
8:17Not all of you. Some of you are Democrats.
8:20Not that there's anything wrong with that.
8:21But, generally, we have a very MAGA base here.
8:27And I'm not getting a lot, and you're not getting a lot, Clay, right?
8:30Even offline, off the show of people.
8:33Trump is saying, look, I'm not bothered by any of this.
8:36This is cut three. Trump is claiming, he's like, I think I'm more popular with
8:39Republicans, with the base, than I've ever been.
8:41Play it. With the most powerful military nation in the world, and we did a
8:45big number on them. And our people like it, because they don't want to see
8:49us 100 % think of it, 100 % in a CNN poll.
8:54A CNN poll, which are the worst polls, almost as bad as Fox polls.
8:58I hate Fox polls. Honestly, whoever does your polls, they're terrible.
9:02But we're very popular. I mean, what can I say?
9:06MAGA loves the fact that they're not going to have somebody with a nuclear bomb
9:10over their head. I think I'm more popular than I ever have been.
9:14Look, when he heard 100%, he said, I've never seen a poll like this.
9:18This is the craziest poll I've ever seen.
9:20It was 100 % of the people.
9:22And the reason is, they like that I'm protecting our country from lunatics with a
9:29nuclear weapon. All there laid out by Trump himself, Clay.
9:35He doesn't sound concerned at all about any loss of support over what's going on
9:39in Iran. And as I was saying, I don't think you and I have felt
9:43that there's any loss of support in large numbers.
9:46I mean, maybe 10 % of MAGA has some concerns, but it's not this thing
9:50that is a cleavage in the overall America First movement that Democrats have been trying
9:56to push and some people on the right are trying to push.
9:58I think in many cases, it's important to remember what social media likes and what
10:06the real world likes. And very often, those are profoundly different.
10:09And I think it's one of the reasons that the Democrat Party has so lost
10:13its way because the online left is super ascendant and powerful when it comes to
10:20social media. And I think that Republicans have to be careful in recognizing when people
10:27are representing the larger coalition, right, of the Republican Party and when they are doing
10:34things that are very popular online that do not translate off of it.
10:38And so, understood simultaneously with that should be that the legacy media has been trying
10:44for a decade to argue, oh, Donald Trump has lost his base.
10:48Oh, Donald Trump is never going to be able to recover from this.
10:51It's his base. It's his base.
10:52not with him um that's virtually never happened the only thing i could even think
10:57of that has been a challenge to trump is his administration's candidly swinging a miss
11:03with a lot of the way that they handled the epstein case um and other
11:07than that i've never really seen any sort of negativity from the actual trump base
11:13well i think that's a perfect example or rather that that goes right in the
11:18the evidence file of there isn't some some anger in the maga base because when
11:24that happened we had lit phone lines the whole show upset about it and people
11:28were saying rightly so with the influencer thing and the bound the binders and the
11:32epstein files and all that people were like this is not what was promised this
11:35is clown show we're unhappy i i would say the calls in support and and
11:41i know this isn't a scientific poll but basing it on on what we see
11:45here day in and day out and what the team is picking up from all
11:47of you 10 to 1 it's it's really more 10 to 1 trust that trump
11:52will make the right decisions to see this iran situation through they're not even getting
11:56into the specifics of oh should we take harg island or not or no no
12:00they think that trump is going to see this through appropriately in the best interest
12:04of the american people and they are not overly concerned that there's going to be
12:08some huge blowback from this or anything else i think that's what we've picked up
12:12it's certainly what trump says he's seeing in all of this so uh some interesting
12:16interesting tidbits offered up there from his call in to the five including his thoughts
12:23on mojdeba i love the mojdeba thoughts i also love that he took a direct
12:28shot at fox's polling on the most popular show on fox because he has been
12:33going after fox news for their polling related uh stories for a very long time
12:40and uh it is pretty uh pretty funny to watch that happen uh so we
12:45will continue by the way open phone lines 800 -282 -2882 uh but i do
12:50believe that uh that we will start to get more firm resolution as it pertains
12:56to uh the situation in iran one bit of news uh that we will talk
13:01about cash patel's private email address buck has evidently been hacked and it probably is
13:09not going to surprise you iran is claiming that they are behind the hacking of
13:15cash patel's private email address uh that news is out there we will discuss that
13:20just coming down in the last uh little bit uh could be embarrassing we'll see
13:24how much actual news uh might come out of this but buck we were talking
13:29about this off air and again we'll come back and we'll talk about it a
13:31bit more i would expect that iran is going to try to leak and embarrass
13:36cash patel uh with those emails immediately and i think we will have an interesting
13:43precedent at play here because in the wake of hillary clinton's email getting hacked a
13:49lot of people in legacy media said oh we shouldn't we shouldn't cover hacked email
13:55stories i bet that does not extend to cash patel so we will see how
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15:41find it on the iheart radio app or wherever you get your podcasts welcome back
15:46in uh clay travis buck sexton show friday edition of the program hope all of
15:53you are having a good friday and buck i just mentioned i guess next week
15:58will officially be good friday um i just mentioned the cash patel emails being hacked
16:05this is his private email account um and the alleged hackers are said to be
16:12iranian um you have been through this a lot and i'm sure it's a huge
16:19topic of discussion discussion inside of intelligence agencies in general we know what happened with
16:25Hillary Clinton and the Russians and it turned into a huge story there was at
16:30the time a monstrous discussion about hey is it ethical to publish these everything else
16:36I have zero doubt that they will end up on the web somewhere being hosted
16:40by a foreign website server do you have any doubt at all about this where
16:45do you see it going and we may need to talk about this on the
16:48flip side too so yeah they're going to try to release this to embarrass him
16:52yeah yeah they're going to go through and undermine the United States this just reminds
16:59me of what happened with North Korea and the Sony hack remember that that was
17:03North Korean hackers didn't like the movie that Sony put out the uh what was
17:08it the uh the hostage the interview the interview yeah and so they hacked into
17:14all the Sony executives personal emails and then just publicly released them and some people
17:19you know people have embarrassing stuff in their personal emails not illegal stuff necessarily but
17:23embarrassing stuff and I don't know I have no idea what's in cash's emails I
17:28just know people don't like their personal emails being released on the internet so that
17:32seems to be maybe it's not only the person who gets hacked it's other people
17:39who are emailing the person who gets hacked right so I would imagine it's it's
17:44one thing cash could have embarrassing emails embarrassing things that he said who he is
17:48emailing with and what those conversations were particularly because he was a private citizen during
17:54the 2024 election I would imagine that Iran is going to try to humiliate him
17:59to the best of their ability I just have no doubt so be prepared for
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19:04and Buck so we've got much to discuss here and uh the situation on the
19:10TSA lines for example something I want to get into a bit um but you'll
19:16notice these Democrats they they pretend that they care so much about federal government employees
19:23when it suits them but the moment that they are a political hindrance or there's
19:28some problem that they pose politically then they're willing to throw them under the bus
19:33as fast as possible Zoran Mamdani who is the mayor of New York City we
19:40are back to and this was this was a way that AOC used to get
19:44a lot of attention but we are back to the old abolish ICE routine which
19:49was 2018's big I think it was 2018 2019 that was the big talking point
19:55if you remember um kids in cages in fact the former Biden energy secretary shouted
20:01at me out of nowhere kids in cages kids in cages when I was on
20:06the Bill Maher show as like a argument ender it's like oh my gosh kids
20:10you know Jennifer Granholm not a very bright woman cabinet member under Biden if I
20:15recall but kids in cages was the thing and AOC you will all recall remember
20:20this Clay she was at the fence oh yeah wearing all white oh yeah teary
20:25-eyed oh my god it's the saddest thing I've ever seen uh yeah Zoran Mamdani
20:32has now picked up that left -wing Soros radical race commie internationalist no borders routine
20:41and here he is saying that uh ICE guess what this is cut nine ICE
20:46should be abolished we're making clear that no one is above the law in this
20:51city that everyone has to follow the rule of and I have made clear to
20:55the president both in our private conversations and our public conversations about the fact that
21:00I believe that ICE is a rogue agency it's a reckless one it's one that
21:04delivers nothing towards the furthering of the cause of public safety and I've also been
21:07public about my belief that ICE is an entity that should be abolished and that
21:11is critically important in our city where we've seen too many New Yorkers living in
21:15fear of even going to what would otherwise be routine immigration jackets abolish ICE I
21:23mean so we won't have an enforcement arm Clay so why do we have federal
21:27laws why not tell Congress that they should pass a no one is barred from
21:32America law I think that would make it harder though for them to collect taxes
21:36from those of us who are already here and who are citizens I think it'd
21:39be harder to get people to fight in your wars if anyone can come stay
21:43as long as they want or as short as they want and go well I
21:46think this is the The question that if we had an honest media would get
21:51asked, we had Tom Homan on this week and Tom Homan has told us before
21:56that he thinks the number of illegal immigrants when he came into office for Trump
22:01in January of 2025 was 20 million.
22:04I think the vast majority of people out there would acknowledge that 20 million is
22:09too many illegal immigrants to have in this country, right?
22:12I mean, I think almost everyone listening to us right now would say that that's
22:16too many. What should the exact number be?
22:18I would like to try to get to zero and then we could readdress American
22:22immigration policy through a legal process.
22:25Okay. What is the number that is too much for Zoran Mondani?
22:28I would love to have Mondani, right?
22:31New York City's budget is broken to a large extent because of the choices that
22:36they are making when it comes to housing illegal immigrants.
22:41Many of you, as you get ready for summer vacation, some of you might find
22:45your way up to New York City, might even be going to see the Lost
22:49Boys, like producer Allie on Broadway, and you will be stunned by what hotel rooms
22:56cost in New York City.
22:57The last time I was in a New York City hotel room, one of the
23:00last times, I couldn't believe, Allie, what did my room cost?
23:04$700 and $800. This is not the nicest hotel.
23:10This is a random Hilton, like a Hilton offshoot, I think.
23:14I got into my room.
23:16I laid down on the bed, and I could touch the wall on both sides.
23:21That's how tiny an $800 a night hotel room was in New York City last
23:26time I was there. Okay.
23:28Why is that happening? Because they were putting so many illegal immigrants in so many
23:34hotel rooms, and also, by the way, because they banned Airbnb and VRBO, which is
23:38an interesting discussion as well.
23:40And as a result, normal people can barely afford to stay in normal hotel rooms
23:46in New York City. Buck, they have completely broken the city's budget over illegal immigration,
23:53and yet they feel like they live in this magical realism, consequence -free world where
23:58they never have to answer the question, what choices are they making and why are
24:03they making them? And I don't know where this goes.
24:06I honestly don't know where this goes because New York City doesn't have the money
24:11to take care of its actual citizens, and instead they're giving all these benefits to
24:17illegal immigrants. And so the whole Democrat Party, I was watching this morning as I
24:22was getting ready for the show, Buck, there was, you know, there's a trend on
24:24social media where everybody talks about what they were like in the 90s.
24:27Have you seen this? It's gone super viral.
24:30Of course, everywhere. Yeah, yeah.
24:32Everyone has seen this. There was a great clip on my feed this morning that
24:35I saw, which was pointing out everything that Democrats said in the 90s about how
24:42awful illegal immigration was. I remember Bill Clinton were a nation of immigrants, but we're
24:49also a nation of laws.
24:51Chuck Schumer, the border is wide open.
24:53This is a disgrace. You go down the line.
24:56Democrats all – this is how they – but you see, Clay, this is how
24:59we got to this point.
25:00They just lied to everybody for a long time about this, that they actually wanted
25:04the border to be secure.
25:07And you can go back and find the New York Times editorial board, not an
25:13editorial writer, in 2000, writing about how – get ready for this, everybody – illegal
25:19immigration, particularly in areas where there are concentrations of illegal immigrants, particularly suppresses the wages
25:27of black Americans. That was the New York Times in 2000.
25:33They were saying there is a disproportionate impact from illegals on members of the black
25:39community in this country, our fellow Americans who are trying to earn a living, pay
25:44their bills, do everything else.
25:46And the New York Times is saying we got to get a hold on this
25:48because it's not fair to black Americans.
25:50Now you fast forward a couple of decades and it's – you don't want 10
25:55million randoms from all over the world piling into this country pretending they're asylum seekers
26:00when they're not. They're not going to get asylum.
26:02They're not going to show up for their asylum hearings.
26:04They're not going to be deported, Clay, even if they're denied asylum because Democrats make
26:08it as hard, if not impossible, as they can.
26:11It's completely insane. They have gone crazy on this issue.
26:14Yes. No other country in the – you know, they point to other countries and
26:17say, look, we should have, like, the working hours of France.
26:20They all sit around with scarves on and berets and – it actually sounds kind
26:23of nice right now – eating baguettes.
26:25But, you know, look at France.
26:27They do this with everything.
26:29No other country in the world has the kind of open borders that we do.
26:32Correct. Even European countries have not been – like what we saw under Biden, 10
26:37million in four years, unprecedented.
26:40Well, and again, I just come back to they break budgets.
26:43They largely, especially, depending on what country they're from, but many of them do not
26:50embrace Western civilizational values. They are not overall assets to the country.
26:56And again, if we want to have a real conversation about what the legal immigration
27:02rate should be in the country, that's a really interesting question, right?
27:07If we go truly and are taking people who are incredible intellectual educational assets and
27:14they're going to come here.
27:15and they're going to start jobs, start jobs, start new businesses, everything else, take advantage
27:20of the systems that exist in America.
27:22What was the percentage of Somalian legal immigrants in Minnesota, Buck, that were on welfare?
27:32Wasn't it 80 %? 80 % of Somali immigrants, these are legal immigrants in Minnesota,
27:3980 % of them immediately go on welfare.
27:42And we're talking multi -generational 80%.
27:46How does that in any way make America better?
27:49First of all, it's illegal.
27:51You should never be able to come to this country and immediately go on welfare.
27:55That's a sign that our immigration system has failed because we're supposed to be taking
28:00people who can contribute to American life, not act as leeches effectively on American life,
28:07not show up here and immediately take your taxpayer dollars to support people that are
28:13not born American citizens, particularly when we don't have the resources to take care of
28:20everyone in America in a way that Democrats would like.
28:24I don't even understand how Democrat voters can support giving all these benefits to illegal
28:30immigrants when there are people who are American citizens that aren't getting the resources they
28:35would like to have. You have to remember, though, what the propaganda has been for
28:39a long time about illegals in this country.
28:42We're told they commit less crimes, which is a lie, by the way, than the
28:46average American. I also would point out I don't care because we're Americans.
28:50They're not. And also, by the way, their rate of violent crime should be zero,
28:55right? Correct. So the fact, the argument of they do crimes at lower levels, how
29:00about their crime should be zero because they shouldn't be here?
29:04It's remarkable. And then the other thing is doing the jobs Americans won't do.
29:09Really, the illegal propaganda for a long time from the Democrat media industrial complex was
29:16that illegals are better than other legal immigrants, mind you.
29:22Yes. And certainly better than lazy, coddled Americans.
29:26That was our own media for a long time.
29:29Doing the jobs we won't do.
29:30Remember that? Oh, yeah. That's been an argument for a long time.
29:33They'll do the jobs we won't do if they're paid under the table, off the
29:37books, because they aren't supposed to be here, and they're often exploited by these labor
29:41practices, the whole thing. But it's so insulting.
29:45The whole thing is so the argument in favor of the illegals was that they're
29:49easier for unscrupulous business owners or business people to exploit.
29:54They won't complain to OSHA at the chicken processing or the meat processing plant, so
29:59they're better than we are?
30:01No, that's actually not how this should be viewed at all.
30:05Well, it's also, Buck, you could take the logical extension of that.
30:08You know who would be even cheaper?
30:09Slaves. Right? Like, at some point, if you're not paying people fair wages and you're
30:16saying, well, Americans won't do these jobs, yeah, they won't work for slave labor wages.
30:22Right? So this is an argument for the percentage of Americans that are not working
30:27right now, which is not insubstantial.
30:30A lot of people are on the sidelines.
30:32If we had a functional American economy that paid everybody what fair wages would be,
30:39then we'd have a lot more Americans coming off the sidelines, I think, to work.
30:43I really do. It's amazing, also, they've tried to convince the American people that the
30:49laws of supply and demand are somehow frozen when it comes to illegals in the
30:54labor market. And every other thing we can all recognize.
30:57There's more of a thing.
30:58You know, there's more buyers than sellers.
31:00If there's more product than there is demand.
31:03These affect price. These affect the wages and everything else.
31:07And yet, with this, we're told you can have all these people who are brought
31:11into the country and specifically go into, usually unskilled trade, certain parts of the labor
31:17pool, and it's not going to affect the price?
31:19Millions of people? It's not going to affect the price that business owners can pay?
31:23If that were the case, why do we have so many people that only want
31:28to hire illegals, for example, in the meat processing plants, things like that?
31:32By the way, it reminds you of the H -1B scam.
31:34Scam, overwhelmingly a scam. And even Elon, Elon was, you know, I have a tremendous
31:41amount of respect for Elon, Clay.
31:43Elon was dead wrong on this.
31:45Vivek Ramaswamy was dead wrong on this in a way that has really continued to
31:50haunt him politically. I know he's running for governor in Ohio.
31:53Wrong on this issue. Because what it turned into was sort of a cartel of
31:57particularly Indians coming here, hiring other Indians, underpaying people because they can't go anywhere, but
32:04they get the chain migration benefit.
32:06They get to skip to the front of the line for staying here forever.
32:09So they're willing to take 20 % less wages.
32:11It's not because the H -1Bs are all geniuses.
32:14I would also point out one other thing that is not getting a lot of
32:18attention. You know what's starting to happen in many different cities across America?
32:22The overall rents are collapsing.
32:24I was looking at a graphic, Buck, two days ago.
32:28Many of our red state, super popular cities, Austin, Nashville, many of your cities in
32:36Florida, people were so overwhelmed about the fact that during the Biden era, the...
32:43overall rent rates skyrocketed for many of you.
32:46And a lot of you out there that rent know exactly what I'm talking about.
32:49Go look at the data.
32:50Since we have started to take illegals out of the country, look at how much
32:55rents have started to come back down.
32:58Why would that be? Oh, because the people who were illegally here are not taking
33:05up as much of the housing and rental stock.
33:07Hold on, hold on. Hold on, Clay.
33:09Are you suggesting that supply and demand also affects housing and not just the labor
33:14market? Yes, this is actually where Democrats played supremely dumb with J .D.
33:19Vance. You remember with Tim Walls when he said, if we have less illegal immigrants,
33:24the overall cost of housing, rent and purchase will decline.
33:28And they said, what are you basing that on?
33:31And the answer is supply and demand, like the most basic of all economic rules.
33:37And it's starting to have a pretty significant impact.
33:39If you've got young kids, if you yourself are responsible for renting, you're seeing those
33:45numbers come back down a big way.
33:47A lot of people getting free months, a lot of people getting $200, $300 off
33:50compared to what they used to pay in rent.
33:53The markets are getting better as the number of illegals are declining.
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35:05Geek out with the guys on the Sunday Hang with Clay and Buck podcast.
35:09A new episode every Sunday.
35:11Find it on the iHeart app or wherever you get your podcasts.
35:15Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
35:18I don't know if we mentioned our guests that we will have here on the
35:21Friday edition of the program.
35:23Florida Attorney General James Udmeyer will be on with us at the top of the
35:27third hour. He is making some interesting moves.
35:30Alligator Alcatraz going after the Rooney Rule, among others.
35:34And Mike Baker will join us at 2 .30.
35:36Let me hit a couple of calls here.
35:38And let's see, who should I go to first?
35:40I'm trying to look at who's been waiting the longest.
35:44Paul, let's see, in South Carolina, used to live on Staten Island.
35:48Fire away, Paul. Hey, man.
35:51Love your show, guys. Trump supporter.
35:53Love the foreign policy in favor of Iran and Venezuela.
35:58I just don't think you guys have your finger quite on the pulse of some
36:01of the concerns we have as Trump supporters.
36:06Affordability. I moved from Staten Island down to South Carolina, paid a ton less in
36:11real estate taxes, but we're being hit with insurance that's crazy.
36:16There are utility costs with peak hours, 6 a .m.
36:20to 9 a .m., where you tilt 70 % of your utility bills from these
36:24peak hours. I'd love to see Trump declare war on the insurance companies.
36:29You can't spend a billion on marketing.
36:31You know, don't have commercials every two minutes.
36:34Bring the premiums down. The affordability piece, I think, is one where the foreign policy
36:41is great, but I'm hurting in the pocket.
36:45Thank you for the call, and I respect and understand that, which is why, Buck,
36:49I've been saying affordability, the economy, is ultimately going to be the deciding factor.
36:54You sign on to that, too, for the midterms.
36:56We'll talk about it next.
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