Hour 3 - Texas Primary Breakdown
3/4/202637 mincomplete
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0:06Hour number three, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:09It is a significant news Wednesday, as many of these days often are.
0:15Let's take you back in to exactly what has transpired.
0:18We had a very powerful press conference, as we discussed earlier in the show, from
0:24Pete Hegseth on the situation in Iran.
0:28We will update you on that, but the big takeaway is that we are close
0:33to complete and total air superiority in Iran, and that I do believe things are
0:40going better and faster than anticipated if they had tried to forecast how this attack
0:49was going to go. We'll come back to that in a sec and play a
0:53couple more of those cuts from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
0:56But in Texas, as we told many of you, was likely to be the case.
1:03We had James Tallarico beat our good friend Jasmine Crockett.
1:07It pains me, as we said earlier in the program, to see the Texas Democrat
1:11Party engage in such blatant racism, Buck, for a white man to beat a black
1:17man like this, a black woman like this.
1:19Can I just point out that Clay was suddenly wearing his Crockett gear a whole
1:27lot more. I'm seeing Crockett t -shirts, Crockett sweatshirts.
1:30He says it's for the coffee company that we own, but I thought it was
1:35a little suspicious that right when Jasmine Crockett was in the political fight of her
1:40life, Clay was Mr. Crockett all of a sudden.
1:43I'm just saying. So Jasmine Crockett goes down.
1:47We talked about this earlier in the show.
1:49We had some deep dive into it.
1:51Buck, I think the reality is this is kind of what you wanted.
1:54And MSNBC or MSNOW, whatever the heck they're called, CNN, The View, they're all going
2:02to be throwing money at Jasmine Crockett to become a television personality.
2:06Her congressional career is over.
2:08And the other big name I would say that went down, as we discussed earlier
2:13in the program as well, Buck, is Dan Crenshaw.
2:15I did not know Dan Crenshaw well, but he had quite the public profile.
2:20Have we ever had him on the program?
2:22I think maybe we did.
2:23I don't think so. I think that, Clay, before you and I teamed up, I
2:27might have interviewed him one time early on.
2:29And I remember, look, I'm just going to say it, there was so much enthusiasm
2:35around, because you go, oh, gosh, this guy is a combat veteran, Navy SEAL, wounded
2:43veteran. You know, this is just like what you would create in a, you know,
2:48conservative laboratory of congressional excellence.
2:52Well, this is the guy we want in Congress.
2:54And I have tremendous respect, obviously, for what he did as a SEAL.
2:57And none of that changes.
2:59But, man, the base turned on him.
3:02And we had, and neither you nor I have, look, you guys know when we
3:05don't like somebody. I try to, you know, I try to be honest about it,
3:08but also be fair about it.
3:09You know if we don't like somebody.
3:10I never met the guy.
3:12I have no beef with him, no problem with him.
3:14So many people I know in politics and in media despise that guy.
3:20And it just strikes me as how?
3:23You know, I mean, we asked Michael Berry.
3:24Michael Berry was not holding back on it.
3:27You can go back and listen to the interview.
3:29Well, so that's the big upset, I would say, that came out of the Republican
3:34primary. We told you that this was likely to happen as well.
3:38And, man, get your two -by -fours because I think it's going to get even
3:43nastier. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn basically ran dead even in the Texas Republican Senate
3:51primary. So Tallarico has advanced.
3:53He is the Democrat nominee.
3:55He's way more radical. Go figure.
3:57Then they have let you know.
3:58And we will certainly dive into that race as it gets closer to November.
4:05But in the meantime, John Cornyn, current incumbent senator, and Ken Paxton are going to
4:12go. Both of them around 41%, 42 % of the vote.
4:18Wesley Hunt, who we had on the program yesterday, got around 13 % or 14
4:22% in third place. So he is eliminated.
4:25And now tons of money will get spent.
4:28I would imagine both Paxton and Cornyn are going to be asking President Trump for
4:34an endorsement. So far, President Trump has not endorsed anybody in this race.
4:39We'll see what he does in late May.
4:41So a little over two months from now, we will officially have a Republican nominee.
4:47So I was texting with Buck Sum as these results came in.
4:50No big surprises in Arkansas or North Carolina.
4:54Our friend Michael Watley is going to run against former Governor Roy Cooper.
4:59We got an invite out.
5:02We almost had him scheduled the other day.
5:04I'm sure Michael Watley is going to be hugely important as we look towards the
5:10Senate because that is a Republican seat in North Carolina and Democrats have to flip
5:15four Senate seats, given J .D.
5:17Vance having the tie break, Buck, in order to be able to take back control
5:21of the U .S. Senate.
5:22We had Cornyn. and they just said they had a schedule conflict maybe that is
5:28the case but you would think he would come on this show at some point
5:33given the primary that he's in now uh you know the extended primary and if
5:38he doesn't i think it's telling us something that i will say i'll look schedule
5:44stuff comes up even if it's very last minute and even if it's after our
5:48good friend michael barry throws a roundhouse kick with his cowboy boots on right to
5:53the face of your campaign however however maybe it was just a little change but
5:58we'd like him to come on at some point we have some questions for mr
6:02cornyn well it's only fair and again we also invited tallarico and jasmine crockett because
6:08unlike cbs um and i do think this is a big story buck in general
6:14again the cbs attempt it may well have been the difference maker for tallarico who
6:21outspent jasmine crockett by five to one i think it was 25 million to five
6:26million something like that and that added raise of money that he got from the
6:32censorship that they claimed on colbert might have been what propelled him to the victory
6:38i mean he won by a relatively slim amount i mean it was very close
6:44and i know some of you flipped over and voted uh in the uh in
6:48the democrat side uh but tallarico won by about six seven points uh with 93
6:54of the vote in at least um and uh and i do think that that
6:59is uh maybe the part of the result is that they helped rig it for
7:03him in the democrat party i would say clay that in the interest of fairness
7:08because we what we have invited tallarico on i still would love to have jasmine
7:12crockett on i believe if jasmine crockett comes on unless there's some ethics thing with
7:17she's in congress there's all these weird you know ethics rules in congress now you
7:21basically can't buy someone more than a coffee and it causes a problem i was
7:24gonna say i'll send her a crockett sweatshirt like i would love to have jasmine
7:28crockett on the show we would have a very fun conversation but for james tallarico
7:32i'll even give him the questions in advance it's like he's getting a little peak
7:36of the test i would first want to ask him is the future female james
7:40i just want to hear what he has to say to that and then clay
7:43if you wanted to follow up with can a man become a woman i feel
7:47like we'd have a robust conversation with james tallarico about this and then you could
7:51ask him about whether god is non -binary which also came up recently he said
7:56that he also said and again this he's he's got a lot of clips that's
8:00so i'm triggered by this god is clearly trans james we all know god is
8:06non -binary um he also said that basically we should have a wide open southern
8:11border so again the fever dream of the democrat party has been that they can
8:17flip texas they've been trying to do it for a long time now uh they
8:21have not won a statewide race in the state of texas since 1994 uh but
8:27that is uh at least um worth contemplating how that's going to shake out your
8:33good buddy joe scarborough uh said boy republicans really blew it um here is cut
8:40three how msnbc is covering uh all of uh all of this uh the outcome
8:47in the texas primary cut three here's yet another example i swear i i just
8:52wish these republicans weren't so stupid i wish they'd listen to me i'm trying to
8:57help them out a little bit here just to make it a fair fight in
9:00the fall but what did we say what did we say first of all when
9:03they took colbert off the air you're gonna pay for it they did pay for
9:07it with south park three or four days later deciding they're gonna lean in even
9:10harder right and so here they try to keep talarico off the show what happens
9:16they give them a boost if you talk to jasmine crockett she'll say the same
9:19thing i was ahead until that controversy so the very person they were trying to
9:25to defeat the very person whose message scared them is the very person who they
9:30helped win this race his political analysis is what you would expect from a guy
9:36who told us in 2024 that joe biden was the sharpest he had ever been
9:41in his entire life clay this is not this is not a surprise that joe
9:44scarborough doesn't know his ass from his elbow this is so dumb um that it
9:49honestly kind of blows my mind that either he is really really legitimately not informed
9:57on this story or or he is intentionally lying there's only two options here because
10:03republicans had nothing to do with this nothing at all the uh colbert show for
10:10those of you have forgotten set up a fake story which was we're gonna have
10:15james talarico on cbs's lawyer said hey if you're gonna have talarico on you need
10:22to have jasmine crockett on as well because she is a contender in this race
10:26on the equal time doctrine and maybe arguably you should also have republicans on but
10:33that's a whole nother debate and they pitched a fit all they had to do
10:39was put on jasmine crockett too this is one where i think jasmine crockett actually
10:43is legitimately had a rig job run against her but this was all a democrat
10:49operation they desperately wanted talarico you What he's got backward is a lot of us
10:54would have preferred Jasmine Crockett because Jasmine Crockett had a 0 % chance of winning.
11:00I think Tallarico has a 5 % to 10 % chance of winning.
11:04Still low, but 0 % to 5 % to 10%.
11:07If you gave me a choice between the two options and I wanted the Republicans
11:11to win, I'd take the 0%.
11:12I'm with you, though. I feel like I need to go find a safe space
11:18and to weep some liberal tears about all the mansplaining and the racism.
11:26I'm sorry. I thought the future was female, James Tallarico, Joe Scarborough, Stephen Colbert.
11:32Apparently not if we're talking Jasmine Crockett.
11:36You know, you have a black woman who could be the next standard bearer of
11:42the Democrats and they did everything they could.
11:45They Bernie Sandersed her. They Bernie Sandersed her.
11:49They totally Bernie Sandersed her.
11:51And you know what is actually also funny about this story on the national political
11:55stage? Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday, I believe, this weekend, and did a robocall
12:04and said everybody get out and vote for Jasmine Crockett.
12:07Jasmine Crockett then lost and Kamala now has flipped and endorsed Tallarico.
12:13I just think when you endorse a person and then the next day you endorse
12:18the other person, basically, that's a tough situation to find yourself in.
12:24She could have just set out the whole thing.
12:26I'm sure that Kamala's advisors got in her ear and they said, hey, this is
12:31another black woman who's running for office.
12:34You need to continue to lock down black female support.
12:38Speak out for her, but do it late so the impact will be minimal if
12:44she loses. People won't talk about it as much.
12:46And then immediately flip and endorse the white guy once the black woman loses.
12:51I mean, it is very funny that we ended up in this situation.
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14:11That's ifcj .org. I say all this in context of abortion because before God comes
14:25over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable.
14:33I mean, go back and read this in Luke.
14:36I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants
14:41to do, and she says, if it is God's will, let it be done.
14:44Let it be. Let it happen.
14:46So to me, that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that
14:51creation has to be done with consent.
14:53And so that's how I come down on that side of the issue.
14:58So there you had James Tallarico back in 2025.
15:02He's now the Democrat nominee for that Senate seat in Texas.
15:05The silver -tongued and serpentine Tallarico, whose special gift, it seems, Clay, is to tell
15:13progressive Democrats that the Bible justifies, hey, you want to tranny your kids?
15:19Well, check out Matthew 317.
15:22You want to... I'm making that up, obviously.
15:24You know, you want to have abortion all nine months of a pregnancy?
15:28Obviously, all you have to do is look up Corinthians 12.
15:31Like, this guy's whole spiel is to tell lunatics who have no room for an
15:39actual God or accountability for themselves in their lives that the Bible justifies their every
15:46urge to please Moloch. That is this guy's role in life.
15:50It's pretty disgusting, actually. Yeah, not only that, by the way.
15:54So that is a tough argument, I would think, to make for most Texans.
15:58I know this one is.
15:59The southern border should be a giant welcome mat.
16:03This is from a debate with Jasmine Crockett just back a couple of weeks ago.
16:09Yeah, cut one. Cut one.
16:13Our southern border should be like our front porch.
16:16There should be a giant welcome mat out front.
16:18I mean, I think... I mean, I think...
16:19I mean, I think... I mean, I think...
16:19I mean, I think... I mean, I think...
16:19I mean, I think... The dissolution of America.
16:21He's just saying America should stop being America.
16:24I don't even think that you need to hardly run any other ad other than
16:30the southern border should be a giant welcome at.
16:33I think that ends the race in Texas.
16:35And so I understand people are saying, oh, this is going to be competitive, but
16:39I've heard it for too long.
16:40We heard it all about with Beto and how he was going to beat Ted
16:43Cruz, and that didn't happen.
16:45And then we heard, oh, this is going to be close in Texas.
16:49This is Trump's in trouble, and Trump won by 14, I think.
16:53I think the state of New York was closer to being a Trump state than
16:58Texas was to being a Kamala state.
17:01Now, everybody needs to show up, and you certainly are going to have to deal
17:05with a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side because so many of the Democrat
17:10base has Trump derangement syndrome.
17:13But I got to tell you, I just think this guy is going to be
17:16way too radical to be elected in Texas.
17:20And I think as more and more people become aware of the things that he
17:23has said, and we just played a couple of cuts of that, I think, again,
17:27we're going to have a real battle between Cornyn and Paxton, but ultimately that's going
17:31to be the result. All right, we'll come back.
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18:44Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
18:47Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
18:50We are rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program.
18:53You just heard us breaking down all of the outcome in Texas, the big primaries
18:57there, the first real opportunity to hear from voters as the midterms move closer and
19:03closer. And, Buck, let me give you a little bit of a storyline that I
19:08think is becoming paramount. We're efforting Yael Eckstein, our friend from the IFCJ.
19:15As you can imagine, there's lots of challenges with communication going on there right now.
19:20She may or may not be about to join us.
19:24But I was watching this morning as I was doing my prep to get ready
19:29for the show. I have not seen MSNBC cover gas prices in the entirety of
19:38the Trump era because they have been coming down and they are at historic lows.
19:45This morning, I watched MSNBC.
19:49I do it so you don't have to.
19:51And, Buck, they have started to show oil prices going up.
19:55This is going to be the primary line of attack, I think, that's going to
20:00come from Democrats because they recognize it's hard to say, well, this guy is a
20:06terrorist who's killed, you know, a thousand or more Americans as well as tens of
20:12thousands of his own people, Kamini, and he can't ever have nuclear weapons.
20:17But what Trump did is unacceptable, right?
20:20That is a really difficult argument to make, and I think Democrats are recognizing it.
20:25So their pivot is going to be this is a bad decision and Americans are
20:32paying the price at the pump when it comes to gas prices.
20:36I'm just telling you this eventually, I believe, is going to become their primary line
20:42of attack. Now, again, historically, oil and gas prices are at very record, near record
20:49lows over the last four years, but they're going to look at how much they
20:54go up in the short term, Strait of Hormuz, the dangers there, Iran's attacks on
21:01other Middle Eastern oil powers, all of that as a sign that Trump is making
21:07things more expensive. That's going to become their line of attack.
21:11You buying or selling that as eventually Democrats will decide that is their way to
21:18oppose what's going on in the war.
21:19Oh, absolutely. They're going to need an economic message, and it has to be an
21:24attack message. They don't have anything constructive to say about any of this, and they're
21:28just hoping that people forget that everything the Democrats do when they're in charge makes
21:33all of the problems that they identify worse.
21:36This is the part of it that's really maddening.
21:39They'll say, oh, well, you know, price of homes is high.
21:42Who do you think does more things to make it harder for people to afford
21:46homes, Republicans or Democrats? We'll see you next time.
21:47We'll see you next time.
21:47We'll see you next time.
21:47We'll see you next time.
21:47Thank you. Price of gas is high.
21:49Oh, I'm sorry. The party that thinks that we should all live off of windmills
21:53and solar panels, they're all of a sudden so worried about the price of energy,
21:58the price of gasoline. It's absurd.
22:00But absurdity is an area in which Democrats excel.
22:05They have no shame, which means they have no limits.
22:10They can say whatever in order to achieve power.
22:13So I think you will see that kind of of economic messaging from them.
22:19I think that they're going to try and attack.
22:22You'll notice usually they'd be attacking health care.
22:24I think more people are starting to realize what an actual disaster Obamacare has been
22:30and how the whole promise of that.
22:33Remember that huge fight we had in the John Roberts court saved Obamacare by changing
22:38the language of an actual statute to match it up with something else?
22:41The whole thing was just such a debacle and it's made everything worse.
22:45And this is this is the reality of it.
22:47So when you look at how they're going to try to attack the president and
22:52his administration on economics, it's just going to revolve around rewriting history and preying upon
22:59the ignorance of people who are understandably frustrated.
23:02Look, finances, paying bills, the stuff is always frustrating.
23:06This is stress. Everyone feels this stuff.
23:08People deal with it at varying levels.
23:11But you're always thinking, do I have enough for what I need?
23:14Am I making progress? Am I falling further behind?
23:18And the Democrats tend to get away with playing the envy game or rather the
23:25class warfare game, point the finger at somebody else.
23:27It's somebody else's fault. And in reality, it is actually the Democrat system, the Democrat
23:33Party that makes all this stuff harder.
23:36They're the reason for your high taxes.
23:38They're the reason for regulations that make home building more expensive.
23:41They're the reason for energy prices.
23:42Look at the cost of gas in California.
23:44What else do you have to see?
23:46So I think that the Trump team is going to be able to put a
23:51lot of results on the scoreboard, Clay.
23:52But this is one of the great challenges we have in 21st century America.
23:56Sometimes reality is not enough.
23:59Well, Joe Biden became president, for heaven's sakes.
24:01Not only is reality not enough, people have so embraced their anti -Trump delusion as
24:09their personal brand that recognizing that the choices you are making is actually leading to
24:17a disastrous outcome is, I think, a function of just how broken our political system
24:27is. Because I think if you and I, I really mean this, and I think
24:30the vast majority of people out there listening to us right now, I think if
24:33you make a compelling argument that what we are arguing for is bad economically or
24:42bad culturally for the United States, I could look at it and say, hey, you
24:47know what? I'll reconsider my priors.
24:50I think Republicans, as a group, are more rational right now, certainly, than Democrats.
24:57Now, it doesn't mean that there's not a lot of diehards who would refuse to
25:00look at facts no matter what.
25:01That's a challenge, I think, of our current political climate and also, I think, frankly,
25:06of social media, because a lot of people get locked into whatever algorithm they're on,
25:11and they don't ever challenge their thinking because they're being fed constantly stories that reconfirm
25:19their priors. And I think if you go back historically and they look at social
25:23media, I don't think it's a coincidence that suddenly Democrats went insane right as social
25:31media became popular, and they started trying to curry favor with everybody on social media.
25:36I mean, I saw it happen in sports.
25:38I read a whole book about it, and that is a cultural impact that I
25:44think is significant. And, Buck, I know we talked about this, but the U .S.
25:48men won their gold medals, and then we saw crowds overwhelmingly cheer them in New
25:54Jersey, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, and also in New York City at the Saturday Night Live.
26:00Those are not places that are big Trump -supporting audiences, yet people want to cheer
26:05gold medals. Certainly, we saw it in Washington, D .C.
26:09when they came out for the State of the Union.
26:10But if you had read social media, you would have expected in New Jersey, Pittsburgh,
26:16and Toronto that the players were going to be drenched in booze, deluge of derision.
26:22It did not happen. And so I think, to your point, unfortunately for Democrats, they're
26:29in a situation where they believe a lot of things that make everything worse.
26:33In fact, I think we are going to have a conversation about this.
26:37Did you see the study that came out that said the number one way to
26:41make people safer is to put Republican district attorneys in office?
26:45Did you see that study?
26:47I mean, it's not crazy.
26:48I feel like that's been our mantra here for years, but now the data supports
26:52it. But the data says, and you know what the data reflects, Republican district attorneys
26:56put bad guys behind bars for longer, and it actually makes everybody way safer.
27:03And so it's not just that Democrats are making poor choices.
27:07It is that they are that that that tangibly those poor choices are resulting in
27:14worse outcomes. And on. Fortunately, because of their anti -Trump delusion, they're making poor choices
27:20and not even recognizing that they are the instrument of their own demise.
27:26It's all true. It does make you wonder sometimes what would have to happen for
27:31Democrats on issues like crime, for Democrats on, what would have to happen for them
27:36to admit that they're wrong?
27:39You know, we have seen what happens in all of these, every Soros -backed prosecutor,
27:47and that's a real thing.
27:49They tried to shut this down like, oh, it's a scare tactic of the right.
27:53No, there are prosecutors who got money from Soros -affiliated or Soros -financed NGOs, and
28:00they realized this was a very effective way to undermine law and order and bring
28:05about some form of anarcho -tyranny in Democrat enclaves, and even some non -Democrat enclaves,
28:11because they're able to sneak in some left -wing district attorney, right?
28:16And so we see what ends up happening.
28:19It's worse for everybody except the very small percentage of the population, and I mean
28:27very small percentage, that are effectively responsible for all of the major crimes.
28:32There have been articles, Clay, New York City, I think it was former Attorney General
28:38Barr did an analysis from the DOJ's numbers that in New York City, if you
28:45would arrest, I think it was 3 ,000 or 4 ,000 people, and keep, when
28:49I say arrest, if you would incarcerate 3 ,000 to 4 ,000 people in the
28:54five boroughs, which has 8 .5 million people, statistically, violent crime would plummet 70%, 7
29:03-0. This is a huge win, just waiting for someone to grasp it, but no,
29:11they won't do it. No, they don't like the demographics of who's going to be
29:16disproportionately incarcerated, and they ignore the demographics of the lives that will be disproportionately saved,
29:23which is the same, by the way, in these major cities.
29:25I will just point out that everybody told Trump, when he surged support in Washington,
29:31D .C., that D .C.
29:33didn't need it, right? That D .C.
29:35was safe, that was the talking point that went out, and that it would never
29:38work. And I'll look up the numbers, and I'll hit you with them tomorrow to
29:42make sure, but through February, murders had declined by nearly 70 % compared to last
29:49year. Memphis, I mean, we should probably talk about Memphis and take some calls from
29:54Memphians tomorrow, put a star in this buck.
29:58Memphis is like a completely different city.
30:00New Orleans, what the president has done is kind of remarkable, and no one is
30:09talking about it. And when the president does something that really has great results, you
30:13sometimes find out because the story just vanishes, right?
30:16Nobody's talking about it. All of a sudden.
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31:53All right. We're closing up shop here on Clay and Buck.
31:56Buck, thank you so much for being with us, as always.
31:59We certainly live in interesting times, and we are honored to be able to share
32:02those times with all of you.
32:06Because, well, we get to hear from you all the time.
32:09The talkbacks, the emails, hook us up with those.
32:12Also, the YouTube, YouTube, Clay and Buck, my friends.
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32:21peek into something. We're going to have a Clay and Buck 2 .0, if you
32:25will, that's going to be hitting on the five -year, Clay, five -year anniversary of
32:30the show. It is crazy.
32:31Look at how much gray we have in our beards now.
32:34You go back to the beginning.
32:34We were just kids, man, five years ago, and now we got these gray beards.
32:39It's crazy. But five -year anniversary of this show, which we're excited to roll.
32:43pull out a whole bunch of new cool stuff.
32:44We've been telling you, teasing that there's going to be more on the video side
32:48of the program. And we're just so thrilled that we've really, we've reached almost 600
32:55radio affiliates across the country.
32:56We're on Sirius, we're on YouTube.
32:59We're just going wherever there's audience because we think what we do here is important
33:03and it's only possible because of all of you.
33:05So thank you so much for that.
33:07I will also say, Clay, my friend, man, I got lit up over Pellegrino.
33:13I didn't know that Pellegrino was like now the champagne of sparkling water.
33:19People are like, if it was Saratoga water, it would be okay.
33:21I'm like, now my sparkling water taste from Costco is too fancy?
33:27That is really, really funny.
33:30We played a bunch of these earlier in the hours, but I'm going to, this
33:35is not going to surprise you, Buck.
33:36I'm going to die on the hill that my Tesla take is going to age
33:42amazingly well. There's a lot of old people out there that are like, I'll never
33:48drive an autonomous vehicle, primarily older.
33:52I am telling you, your grandkids are going to live in a world where most
33:58people do not drive vehicles.
34:00And I feel even more that's the case, the more time I spend letting my
34:06Tesla self -drive. It is absolutely incredible.
34:12And I'm telling you, I'm living in the future and some of y 'all are
34:15living in the past. I'm going to go to war on this one.
34:18You heard some of the talkbacks, they're very funny, but this is one that I'm
34:22100 % confident I am right on.
34:24I'm going to, I have to, I got to, I got to come check out
34:26your Tesla. I've never driven one or been driven by one.
34:30I've only been in one where somebody was actually operating.
34:33But see, this is my vision is that I'll be in self -driving Tesla drinking
34:37my Pellegrino, listening perhaps to some Chopin or some Beethoven.
34:43Your Pellegrino argument is not helping me on the Tesla argument.
34:48A lot of Tesla self -driving people like Pellegrino.
34:51Let's be honest, Clay. Okay, I'm sorry you're getting swooped in with this one.
34:55A little too far to say that Clay is a pistachio creme brulee guy.
34:59That's me. I take the heat on that one.
35:01But then again, he's a Rosé Whispering Angel drinker.
35:04So as Kaylee McEnany, our good friend, has had to point out to the public,
35:08Clay wears many hats. Sometimes he's SEC football bro, getting high fives, drinking out of
35:14a red solo cup. Sometimes he's drinking Whispering Angel out of a fluted glass.
35:19All I will point out is that there was no other alcohol on the table.
35:23And as the gentleman that I am, I was pouring drinks for everyone else, including
35:27myself. We will continue to update you on the Iran situation.
35:33The battle going on in Texas is going to continue to grow.
35:40But again, cautiously optimistic, as we talked about in the first couple of hours, the
35:45data is reflecting that Iran's ability to fire weapons is continuing to be degraded.
35:51And as that occurs, more and more air superiority coming.
35:56And so I think things are going, again, about as well as we could hope
36:01that they are going. And I think the Trump team is absolutely on it.
36:04They understand the implications here of what would happen if this went too far.
36:08We get too deep into this.
36:09I think they have, with so many things, earned a degree of trust.
36:15Let them cook, as they say.
36:17Let Hegseth and Trump cook.
36:19They know what they're doing on this one.
36:21I have faith if that changes, we will certainly be the first to say that
36:26on this show. But until then, my friends, great hanging with you here.
36:29We'll be back with you on Thursday.
36:31We'll talk to you then.
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