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0:34Welcome, everybody, to the Monday edition of the Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton show.
0:40Clay is out for the day.
0:42He's on an adventure, and he'll be back tomorrow.
0:45We have a lot of news to dive into with all of you.
0:49Things heating up in Mexico after a very senior, prominent, evil cartel boss was taken
1:00out in a joint U .S.-Mexico operation.
1:03We shall discuss that. We've got a whole lot of reaction to the incredible win
1:12of our American national ice hockey team.
1:17Gold medal winners beat Canada.
1:19And I do feel sort of sad for Canada because you would think this is
1:23the one thing where they would believe that they should be able to.
1:28This, maple syrup, perhaps certain beer brewing contests, moose sighting, and yes, hockey.
1:37But it turns out that we are number one, at least for this go -around
1:40at the Olympics. Gavin Newsom was speaking to a predominantly African -American crowd in Georgia
1:47and said some things that are getting a lot of attention for him.
1:52Not the kind of attention that I think he wants.
1:54President Trump hosted a range of angel families at the White House, people who lost
2:01loved ones to crime committed by illegal aliens.
2:06We'll talk about that for sure.
2:09And we will get into a whole bunch of other things as well, too.
2:11Want to hear from all of you.
2:12I wanted to thank you all and ask you to keep going, of course.
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2:47All right. The Olympics. Let's talk about this.
2:50This is a great moment here.
2:51U .S. hockey player Jack Hughes after scoring the game -winning goal in overtime.
2:57Cut eight. Play it. This is all about our country right now.
3:01I love the USA. I love my teammates.
3:04It's unbelievable. The USA Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.
3:08And we have so much support from next players.
3:11And I'm so proud to be American today.
3:17This is what we want to see from our Olympians in general.
3:22I know that there was a departure from this of some of the, what was
3:28it, like, downhill skiers or something.
3:31This kind of patriotism, love of country, it's a great moment for this team.
3:35It's a great moment for all Americans who were watching and celebrating with them.
3:41And it's, what, the first time that we've won this since 1980?
3:45Is that right? You know, we have two super hockey fans on the Clay and
3:51Buck staff. Two super hockey fans.
3:54Producer Greg and Producer Mark.
3:55I want to let them weigh in on this because they watched every second of
3:58this game. They watched all the ice hockey in the Olympics.
4:01They love their NHL. They love their Olympic hockey.
4:05And so here, from two guys who, because I'm very happy for America and for
4:09the patriotism of it. I didn't even know that hockey was going on.
4:13So I'm always going to be honest with you.
4:14I wasn't even aware until the game, the final was happening, that there was anything
4:19even to speak of. So I'm bringing you some expertise courtesy of the Clay and
4:23Buck team. This is Producer Greg Play, listener talkback A.
4:27The Olympic win yesterday by Team USA men's hockey was great.
4:33It was such sweet revenge over last year's Four Nations tournament where Canada beat the
4:39USA 3 -2 in overtime.
4:41The Olympics are a much bigger state than the Four Nations tournament anyway.
4:44We're also really proud of USA women.
4:47Way to go. Gold medal there as well.
4:50USA, USA, USA. USA, that's to all you poutine eaters up north.
4:58I did see some pretty fun memes of like an American bald eagle with its
5:03talons just crushing a Canada goose, which is, I think, very apropos for what we
5:11just witnessed. Producer Mark, also a super hockey fan on our team.
5:15He waited. These guys were jumping for joy all throughout the night after this big
5:20win. Play listener talkback B.
5:23Hey Buck, Producer Mark here.
5:24It must be. It must be an important hockey story if you're actually talking about
5:27it on the air. Just a monumental victory for Team USA yesterday to win the
5:32gold medal. One of the best hockey games I've ever seen as a person who's
5:36watched hockey his entire life.
5:37Just to see the best of the best in the NHL face off against each
5:41other for their countries. It was incredible and a great chance for everyone to see
5:45how great of a sport hockey is on the national scale.
5:47And I hope it translates to more people watching hockey down the line.
5:51I'm so glad that Team USA was finally able to win gold for the first
5:55time since 1980. It was awesome.
6:00I did love the celebrations.
6:02It's really fun as an American to see your country represented so well.
6:06And it was actually at producer Mark's recommendation that I watch the Miracle movie.
6:11Which I had to admit, even as a non -hockey watcher, that's a really great
6:14movie. A really great movie and a great story.
6:17So there's been some phenomenal sports stories this year.
6:20Clay is out today. Our sports guy is out today.
6:22It's a shame. But we've had some phenomenal sports moments.
6:25Whether it was the Hoosiers winning the football national championship NCAA.
6:30Or now the gold medal by the U .S.
6:34men's hockey team. So great stuff there.
6:37Congratulations to... Oh, and I'm sorry.
6:39The ladies won the gold medal as well.
6:41Which is also very exciting.
6:44I do not know that much about women's hockey.
6:48But I do know that the gold medal is very impressive.
6:51And they should be very pleased with themselves.
6:53So I like starting off with a good story when we can.
6:55Because when we start talking about the cartels and stuff here, it's going to get...
6:58It's going to get a little bleak.
7:00That's some very tough stuff going on down there in Mexico.
7:03Oh, something else from over the weekend.
7:07Yeah. Now we're taking the hard turn.
7:09We celebrated. I want to start you off on this Monday with amazing USA, USA
7:13hockey win. Incredible. Some other stuff happened over the weekend, though.
7:19An intruder was shot and killed at Mar -a -Lago.
7:24Here's Secret Service. This is cut four.
7:26Secret Service special agent in charge, Rafael Barros, talking about what happened here.
7:31The individual was armed with a shotgun in a possession of a gasoline canister.
7:37Agents and the deputy discharged the firearms to stop the threat.
7:41At this time, no law enforcement personnel were injured during the incident.
7:45We want to be clear.
7:47The President of the United States was not in the state of Florida.
7:51And this remains an active investigation by the FBI.
7:58So shot and killed, as I understand it.
8:00I actually know some folks who were at Mar -a -Lago when this happened.
8:05You can imagine it's quite a...
8:07I'm sure if you were anywhere on the grounds, you would have heard the gunfire.
8:12So yet again, I mean, this is a president who has had...
8:16who has been shot, who has had another very close -call assassination attempt, and continues
8:22to be under this threat from these maniacs in a way that no president before
8:31him that I can think of has, certainly not in my lifetime.
8:35I know Reagan was shot.
8:36You'd have to go back to Reagan for somebody who's been under this level of
8:40threat from maniacs, would -be assassins, political hitmen, all of the above.
8:49And just say a prayer, spare a prayer for Trump and his family and the
8:53Secret Service and everybody around them.
8:54And they dealt with this quickly.
8:55The guy had a shotgun.
8:57I think he scaled a fence.
8:58He's on the grounds of Mar -a -Lago.
9:01And they engaged the threat, and the guy was killed.
9:04There's reporting out there that he was obsessed with the Epstein Files release.
9:10That's all that I've seen so far on him.
9:12I'm not even clear really what that means, other than this is a guy who
9:15was spending way too much time on that.
9:20But this is a president who is someone that is defining a political era, really
9:28defining an era of American history, and doing things that, yes, you and I can
9:35sit here and talk about how powerful they are and how much they benefit the
9:38country, but when someone is shaking things up and changing the way the presidency governs,
9:47as this president is, there's going to be efforts.
9:51There's going to be those who take it upon themselves to try to stop it
9:56by any means. And it's still, if we had had a Democrat president, for example,
10:03who had been through this, we would hear about it all the time.
10:05There was nothing like any of this that I can remember under Biden.
10:08Certainly he wasn't shot. Certainly they didn't find a gunman once after he had been
10:13shot, waiting for him on his golf course somewhere.
10:17There's clearly an elevated threat level against Donald Trump.
10:20Now, I think the Secret Service is more prepared for this now than they had
10:24been previously. I would certainly hope so, because the failures of security in that field
10:30in Butler, Pennsylvania, were all too clear and obvious to everyone who observed what was
10:36going on there. But I find that it's just interesting how little there is in
10:44the narrative, in the media, about the bravery that Trump has when he goes about
10:50all the things that he does.
10:52and all the events, and all the time, he doesn't slow down one bit.
10:57And this president is under, clearly, I don't think there's any doubt, more active threat
11:03than certainly any president in the 21st century.
11:06And I think you would have to go back to Reagan for anybody who is
11:10even close to, as consequential a president, and then also with that, with being so
11:17consequential, I think comes the elevated risk from a whole range of things.
11:22It's people that are trying to stop, people that are part of the evil or
11:27the enemy that want to just stop this president from continuing to rack up wins,
11:33people that are just so insane that they view themselves as, they want to do
11:40something, essentially go down in the history books ignominiously, but they want to go down
11:45in the history books for stopping this president in some way.
11:48So I just think that there's not nearly enough time or not nearly enough in
11:55fairness that is said about how President Trump really has done a very brave thing
12:00by running again, by continuing to go on after getting shot.
12:04It didn't even faze him.
12:07It didn't even faze him that this guy took a 5 -5 -6 round through
12:10the year. He just kept going.
12:13He really is on a mission.
12:16Many of you would say he's on a mission from God.
12:20I think Trump would say he's on a mission from God, but he has chosen
12:24to do this at some level, and we need to understand that, but also count
12:30our blessings that he's still able to go and do what he does and continue
12:34on with what his task has been up to this point.
12:40You think about this. There are so many forces arrayed against this guy, which on
12:46the one hand is, I think, a massive indicator of how consequential, as I said,
12:55he is, of how much of a disruptor he is, how much that he's willing
13:00to take the fight to the enemy in a whole range of ways, internationally, domestically,
13:08spiritually, you name it. But when you hear that there's some maniac roaming Mar -a
13:14-Lago with a gun, now, the president wasn't there.
13:16The president wasn't under threat in this case, but clearly, like I said, say a
13:20prayer for this president because he's got a few years left here and still has
13:25a lot to do, and we have to keep this president safe.
13:27So good work from the Secret Service, and if we have any more on the
13:32background here, I mean, I think it's just a lunatic, but we'll continue to follow
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15:34All right, welcome into the second hour of Clay and Buck.
15:37And let's talk about this, shall we?
15:39We had President Trump hosting the Families of Crime Victims, Angel Families, at the White
15:48House. Yes, I'm sorry, this morning.
15:52Wait, is it yesterday or today?
15:54I think it was this morning.
15:56He participated in... Yeah, it was this morning, that's right.
15:59In an Angel Families Remembrance Ceremony in the East Room.
16:03This event honored angel families, relatives of individuals killed or harmed in crimes allegedly committed
16:08by... Oh, gosh. When you read the official description of this, as I was just
16:13doing, they go to undocumented immigrants, often referred to as legal aliens.
16:18No, referred to as legal aliens.
16:20because that is the proper legal term.
16:23I was actually not going to think of this as an opportunity to sell manufacturing
16:27delusion copies, but on the propaganda section, there's all the stuff about immigration, and the
16:34change in our language that has been in the service of pushing for illegal immigration
16:43has been profound. And you'll notice it went from illegal alien to illegal immigrant to
16:52undocumented immigrant to undocumented to now, I don't know, like non -citizen soon -to -be
17:01-American or something. So they do this on purpose, obviously.
17:07They change the words that are used so that you have essentially ceded ground in
17:13the debate before you've even had it.
17:15If you're undocumented, well, how do you fix that?
17:17Well, get them the documents.
17:19If you're undocumented, how do you fix it?
17:21Get them documents. That shouldn't be too hard.
17:24You see the way that this works.
17:27And that's always been the plan.
17:29The American people have been put through one of the most sustained campaigns of lies
17:37around immigration on any major policy issue in this country.
17:41It's up there with whatever else you think the Democrat left has been spreading untruth,
17:53mistruths about Democrat media, and really, unfortunately, a lot of Republicans, too.
18:00We were led to believe so many things.
18:02Even though, for example, I think it was John McCain was a sponsor of the
18:07Secure Fences Act. I mean, you go back to the early 2000s, there were all
18:11these moments where Republicans would say that they were going to build the dang fence
18:18and things like that. But the Bush administration was terrible on this stuff.
18:23The Obama administration was very bad.
18:27The Biden administration, though, was in a class by itself.
18:31The Biden administration just decided, you know what?
18:34We've gotten to a critical mass here of illegals coming into the country where we
18:39might as well just sort of take the gloves off and just let it rip.
18:44Just let them all in.
18:45Just let them all in.
18:46Everybody wants to come in.
18:47And remember, there were videos of illegals coming to our border.
18:52And the occasional journalist would say, hey, what are you doing here?
18:55And they would say, like, I'm here because Biden is going to let me stay.
18:59That really happened. I forget what exact words were used, but that really happened.
19:05Oh, speaking of Biden, we actually, the team did pull this because I brought it
19:10up before. What did Biden say about Obama?
19:17Here we go. This is 28.
19:19This is a flashback to 2007.
19:21Play 28 for me. You got the first sort of mainstream fricking American who was
19:29articulate and bright and... I cut out there.
19:37Did he say clean? Because that's...
19:41And clean, nice -looking guy.
19:45There you go. Yeah. That's a strange thing to say.
19:52Didn't Biden end up being his VP?
19:54This is what I'm saying.
19:56Democrats, this is part of the advantage, part of the privilege package of being a
20:02Democrat in politics. Or just somebody who the Democrat Party finds useful.
20:07That's really what it is.
20:08It's not about loyalty. It's not about what you stand for.
20:10It's are you useful to the power and the interest of the Democrat Party?
20:14If the answer is yes, racism.
20:16It doesn't matter. That doesn't affect you, really.
20:20Because there's always a chance for you to beg forgiveness later or to do more
20:24for the oppressed groups that you've offended or something like that.
20:28No, really, racism, predominantly in political discourse in this country in the last, well, few
20:34decades at least, is just something that you particularly try to weaponize in bad faith
20:40against Republicans to scare them and shut them down and stop them from doing things
20:44that would be good policy, including and disproportionately for the black community in this country.
20:51Things like safer streets, more support for cops, more enforcement of the law.
20:56You've got the left saying that that stuff is racist.
20:59Meanwhile, it's not racist. And actually, it really does in major cities, for example, help
21:04black people more than anybody else.
21:07So there's all that happening in the background here of this discussion on immigration.
21:12And Trump decided, you know, one thing, I've been saying that there's all these lies
21:17around this. One of the big lies or one of the things that they will
21:20do, I should say, part of the propaganda around immigration has been, you know, we
21:25have to, this is the founder of, the next founder of Google, or they do
21:30the jobs Americans won't do, or they're more law -abiding than Americans.
21:34A big part of immigration discourse has been, they are better than us.
21:40Illegals. I'm not talking about legal migrants.
21:42I'm talking about illegal migrants.
21:44People who just come here and break the law, they're better than the Americans who
21:47are actually here. which is quite a thing to say for an American, and especially
21:51an American politician, but that was very common.
21:53Doing the jobs Americans won't do.
21:57Yeah, not for, not if the choice is being here or being in Nicaragua, a
22:04lot of people would rather be here even if they're being paid below market wages.
22:07This is a better country.
22:09That's not some huge mystery.
22:12It doesn't go to the inherent work ethic of any group of people one way
22:16or the other. But the other part of this is, I used to say this
22:20when I would debate people years ago.
22:21This has been a big issue for me for a long time, certainly for the
22:24last, really, well, really since Trump came into office, since 2016, and since Ann Coulter's
22:32excellent Adios America was published.
22:36Very, very good book. And, you know, you see the way that the immigration story
22:42was laid out for so many people in this country, and it was just a
22:47big lie. It wasn't true.
22:49And one of the things that I would ask people when I would debate them
22:51on this, especially at CNN and places like that, is, is there any downside to
22:56illegal immigration? Because if you ask somebody from, like, the Cato Institute, which is an
23:01open borders, shill, lunatic factory, if you ask people from places like this, libertarians, you
23:08know, far left, bleeding heart types, any and all of the above, they never have
23:14an answer for you. And so then I always say to them, if there's no
23:17downside to illegal immigration, why don't we just go open borders?
23:21They go, oh, no, we can't do that.
23:23Why? You won't identify a downside.
23:26You won't tell me what the trade -off is.
23:28Ah, well, Trump will tell you what the trade -off is.
23:31One of the trade -offs is that there are thousands and thousands of people in
23:34this country who aren't supposed to be here, who kill people, who rape people, who
23:39steal, who commit armed robberies, all of the above, all these kinds of things.
23:44And this is Trump here at the, at the ceremony honoring these families.
23:50This is cut one from this morning for the Angel families.
23:53Play it. We're willing to tell the story and that I don't know why the
23:56news doesn't want to hear it.
23:57The Democrats don't want to hear it.
23:59The radical left, they don't want to hear it.
24:00What's not to hear? We want to stop murderers and criminals from coming into our
24:05country. I watch the mayor of Minneapolis.
24:08I watch these people saying, we want to protect murderers.
24:11I don't get it. Something's sick.
24:13They're sick. You can't have a country like that.
24:15So we appreciate the bravery of everybody in this room, actually.
24:22Again, this is something that the media overall will not tell you about.
24:27This is the, the other side of, you know, they love to run these stories,
24:32particularly if it's, they'll run some story about a, a dreamer.
24:38They used to, you notice the dreamer thing has fallen away a little bit, but
24:41it says some dreamers like, this dreamer is a valedictorian.
24:45Isn't this amazing? You know, dreamer being somebody who allegedly was brought here when they
24:49were still a minor by their parents.
24:52And as I have to note, and this sounds kind of harsh to some people,
24:56but it's true. You know, if, if my, if, if dad steals a million dollars
25:02from a bank and gives it to me to fund my, you know, my laboratory
25:07where I'm going to do great things for researching different medicines, it's still stolen money.
25:12You're not supposed to benefit from criminal activity and, and entering the country illegally is
25:16in fact illegal. But you would always hear these stories about the valedictorian.
25:21You would never hear the story about the illegal who had been arrested 10 times
25:25and drunk driving five times and then finally, you know, killed a family of three
25:30on the highway. Media won't tell that story.
25:33In fact, if anything, they'll, they'll do the, it's such and such, you know, it's
25:38a Michigan man or a, or a Florida man or a, you know, whatever, kills
25:45three people in a car accident.
25:46Well, actually this guy is not an American at all.
25:50He's, you know, from some third world country and has been in this country, nothing
25:55but a drain on our resources and breaking our laws and a giant net negative
25:59for us. Trump spoke about how much also the, how much pain there has been
26:04as a result of the, as a, as a result of some of these illegals,
26:09the things that they've done.
26:09This is cut to, or he just says to these angel families, look, your loss
26:13is infinite and I'm very sorry, very sorry for what's happened.
26:16Play two. Everyone in this room not only suffered an infinite loss, they were the
26:21victims of politicians who put the comfort of foreign criminals before the safety of American
26:26citizens and American patriots. Their stories were censored and suppressed like maybe almost never before
26:34so that the politicians could open our borders and allow our nation to be invaded.
26:39If we didn't win the election, our nation would right now be destroyed.
26:45Let's just take that last part for a second.
26:49If Biden, well, in this case it would have been Kamala, right?
26:52If Kamala had won the election, we would have gone back to the posture.
26:59Remember, they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border, which was always
27:04a lie. A lie that Trump has now exposed once and for all.
27:09But they would have told us it's impossible to secure the border and we would
27:13have had millions and millions of more people.
27:15coming into the country and and staying here and availing themselves of all kinds of
27:23benefits and really just taking from the american people i mean this is the the
27:30part of it that was a wake -up call for so many i think was
27:33when and give texas governor greg abbott credit when he just started saying fine we're
27:38just going to bust these illegals to where they want to go we'll send them
27:41to new york we'll send them to chicago and then you see what happens in
27:44these cities they're not coming here because they're about to start the next great tech
27:50company they're coming here because they think that there's a free lunch in many cases
27:57this is what these illegals are doing if they were coming here because they thought
28:00that they could contribute right away you would think the legal immigration process might be
28:05more to their uh their liking and beyond that there's also the issue of how
28:11do you have a country that has anything that feels cohesive about it if you're
28:16going to be bringing millions of different people in year after year after year from
28:20all over the world disparate cultures different languages different religions different political beliefs and everything
28:27else you could say well that's always been the story of america that's actually not
28:31true another lie that they tell the story of america is temporary waves of migration
28:36legal migration followed by real clampdowns like all right now we all get to live
28:42now we've let some more people into the house now we all live in the
28:45house together for a while we get to know each other it's not supposed to
28:48be just open door policy forever that's actually not how immigration has worked uh in
28:53america and it's also quite a different thing to show up here as a a
28:58settler uh or a pioneer than it is to show up get chauffeured around a
29:04taxpayer expense be given a you know ebt card free health care and effectively told
29:14that you are now going to be taken care of by the people who are
29:17already here just by virtue of our sense of guilt or obligation or something it's
29:23a very different thing they're not they're not hacking it out of the wilderness with
29:26their own two hands here in this country okay this is a different thing so
29:31if we look at the immigration immigration waves that have come in the 21st century
29:37illegally the the american economy is or rather the american system is already straining under
29:45the weight of the promises we've made to americans you really think that you're going
29:49to be paying more or rather they're this is when they go the gdp is
29:52growing and gdp is not that's not that's not everything of course gdp grows if
29:58you have a million more people what is the quality of life of those people
30:01how how are they uh contributing to the society around them and how are they
30:10assimilating into that society these are all the questions but this is why trump he
30:14just needs to tell these stories people understand there are in fact huge costs to
30:19illegal immigration including the loss of life and something that should be taken into account
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31:48welcome everybody third hour of the clay travis and buck sexton show kicks off right
31:53now clay is out today doing clay things on a clay adventure he'll be back
31:58with us tomorrow just me today and i am recovering from a stomach bug over
32:04the weekend so drinking my pedialyte does not taste great but it does get the
32:09job done and i got a lot of news to talk to you all about
32:13here we have oh boy a few things first of all let's start with the
32:18happy we mentioned this top of the show u .s men's hockey team gold medal
32:23in the olympics yay very exciting a lot of patriotism a lot of usa and
32:28the player who had his tooth broken by the stick and stayed in the game
32:33and i think he did he scored the winning goal too didn't he it's a
32:37crazy story with half of his tooth missing front tooth as well like there's different
32:43front tooth as well like there's different Some teeth you can get chipped or knocked
32:46out, and you're like, that's not great.
32:48But the front teeth, that's the, oof.
32:51But he stayed in there.
32:53Those hockey guys are tough, I've got to say.
32:56You don't want to fight hockey guys.
32:57That I know, even if they're retired or whatever.
32:59You don't want to mess with the hockey guys.
33:01And then you got what else happening over the weekend.
33:05We talked about the military operation that took out El Mencho, the Jalisco, cartel Jalisco,
33:13new generation cartel guy. And, yep, that happened.
33:18Let me see. Jack Hughes.
33:21They're saying, yeah, Jack Hughes.
33:25That's a, that guy's a tough dude.
33:29So anyway, there's a cartel guy got taken out of the weekend, $15 million bounty
33:33on his head. I guess the Mexican military doesn't get to collect that, but they
33:36really wanted him. They took him out.
33:38A gunman at Mar -a -Lago, about an hour from where I am here, up
33:44north, gunman from Mar -a -Lago, shot and killed, entered the grounds, had a shotgun,
33:51assuming Secret Service said halt.
33:52He didn't halt, and that was all, that was all that went down there.
33:57And so we've got that, another threat against President Trump.
34:00Something that I thought was worth revisiting, though, from last week.
34:05So we've got those big news stories about the gold medal, shooting at Mar -a
34:10-Lago, Mexican cartel leader taken out.
34:16But then last week we had that Supreme Court decision.
34:21And Trump was, to put it mildly, unhappy with the 6 -3 decision that went
34:27against him in the Supreme Court, Learning Resources, Incorporated v.
34:33Trump, International Emergency Powers Act, IEPA, as we call it, does not authorize him to
34:42impose these tariffs, they said.
34:44Well, Trump, in a press conference shortly afterward, said that this was deeply disappointing.
34:50He said he was ashamed of certain members of the court, ashamed for not having
34:55the courage to do what's right for our country.
34:57He thanked the justices, or sorry, he personally attacked some of the justices, said that
35:08they were disloyal and unpatriotic fools and lapdogs, whoa, and said the ruling was terrible
35:15and ridiculous. But he announced that he would work around the ruling using other legal
35:19authorities. He signed off on a new temporary 10 % global tariff under Section 122
35:25of the Trade Act of 1974.
35:28Just went to a different statute, a different authority for this.
35:31He posted about this on Truth Social, by the way.
35:33You can read some of this off of Truth Social if you want.
35:36Then the next day, he raised the tariff to the global tariff, 15%, called the
35:43Supreme Court's opinion ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti -American.
35:48He praised dissenting justices Kavanaugh, Thomas, and Alito for wanting to make America great again.
35:55So Trump was annoyed by it, but he's not stopping.
35:59And he's not stopping the tariffs either.
36:03And Scott Besant, his very capable Secretary of the Treasury, who I think has become
36:09one of the most impressive members of the Trump cabinet, I think that Besant has
36:14really shown. First of all, just look at the way the economy, and people can
36:18say, oh, it's not like the Treasury Secretary is responsible for it all.
36:22Okay, but if the economy was trash, don't you think we'd all be hearing about
36:25how terrible Scott Besant was?
36:26If inflation was going through the roof, don't you think we'd be hearing about how
36:29terrible Trump and Besant were on this?
36:32So maybe you get more credit when the things are good, and you get more
36:35blame when things are bad, but that's the way it goes.
36:39Besant has presided over a very strong economy, a very rapidly growing economy.
36:45But on the Supreme Court ruling, he had some very straightforward analysis of all this.
36:55This is cut 22, and here's what he had to say.
36:58Play 22. It's very interesting that the Supreme Court said that the president can't raise
37:03$1 of revenue with tariffs, but he can't put on a full embargo.
37:07So they reaffirmed his ability to block all trade.
37:10He just cannot accept $1 for the trade.
37:13And I will tell you, the tariff revenues, they have come into the Treasury.
37:19But more importantly, the ultimate goal of tariffs is rebalancing trade and bringing our trade
37:24deficits into balance. We've seen our goods sector, the deficit with our trading partners dropped
37:29by 17%. We've seen our bilateral deficit with China drop substantially.
37:33And we are seeing trillions of investments and factories coming back to the U .S.
37:38because of the tariffs. So the policy overall seems to have worked very well, if
37:48you look at it from the perspective of what will benefit the American economy.
37:51And looking at what they wanted to have happen once they put these in place,
37:57in calendar year 2025, tariffs were $264 billion.
38:07That's some real money, friends.
38:09Some say it's actually more money.
38:10like $287 billion in customs, duty, taxes, and fees altogether.
38:17So this is a lot of money that came in, and yet the economy was
38:23still strong, unemployment, inflation, growth, all these things, wages.
38:28Things are going well. Now, the one place where people have been citing challenges is
38:35on affordability and high prices.
38:37High prices, as we know, were kicked into place by the worst economic decision -making
38:46imaginable during COVID, some of which occurred on Trump's watch but would have very quickly
38:51been turned around. But then Biden came in and did a whole lot of crazy
38:55stuff, spending trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily after we had already seen that COVID was
39:00not something we should have shut down the economy for, shut down schools for, and
39:05everything else. But, yeah, if you're going to just tell people not to work and
39:08print trillions of dollars, you're going to inflate your currency and you're going to have
39:12problems. So none of that was a surprise.
39:15I think all of that exactly lined up the way that we would have assumed.
39:19But Trump inherited those high prices as president.
39:22He's trying to deal with it.
39:23He doesn't sit around whining about it, but he's trying to deal with it.
39:27And that is going to take some time.
39:32But in the meantime, there are a lot of things that I think are going
39:36exactly the way that he would like them to with regard to the economy.
39:41And the Supreme Court ruling, to me, seemed very much like the justices in the
39:47majority. Well, there are a few justices who just hate Trump and anything that he
39:51does, they're going to oppose, pretty much.
39:53We know who they are.
39:55And then there are a few other justices, notably Roberts, but also Kagan and in
40:00this case, I'm sorry, Gorsuch and Coney Barrett, who are institutionalists for the court at
40:09some level. They believe in keeping the public's, whatever that means to them, view of
40:18the court favorable. And I think that they stepped in here and I think they
40:22make political decisions. They go, well, we're going to knock him down on this one
40:26because some of the other ones that are coming down the pipeline, Clay and I
40:29talked about this last week.
40:30I think it's correct. I think it's true.
40:32Some of the other ones coming down the pipeline are going to go Trump's way
40:34and there are going to be people who are very unhappy, very unhappy about that.
40:41But on this tariff issue, they are saying, yes, he can embargo, he can shut
40:46down all trade, but he cannot, he can regulate it, but he can't take a
40:52dollar. Isn't that interesting? The interstate commerce clause has been used in so many abusive
41:02ways for government overreach, all under the term, all under the idea that regulate means,
41:08you know, you can do like whatever you want.
41:11Regulate means, oh, it's crossing state lines, oh, we can do whatever we want.
41:15And yet on this one, regulate cannot mean imposing any kind of a tariff, import
41:25duty, whatever you want to call it.
41:27Scott Besson spoke about this again.
41:29This is cut 23, and he's talked more about the plan continues, just like Trump's
41:35view of this. They're not stopping.
41:36They're not slowing this down.
41:38Play 23. I want to point to what we're doing.
41:41The president, the administration remains undeterred in reshoring American factories and getting rid of these
41:51massive trade imbalances. That's the big story here, is that we are immediately going to
41:55go to Section 122 tariffs and that the revenue for the U .S.
42:00Treasury for 2026, the projections are unchanged.
42:06So he's saying they march along as expected on this one, and they're going to
42:12keep pushing in the same direction because despite what everyone in the so -called economic
42:19or economist intelligentsia had said, it did not destroy the economy.
42:24It did not create out -of -control prices.
42:27All these things, the parade of horribles that we were told would result from this
42:35did not happen. And so you would think that would be indicative of, well, maybe
42:41Trump's onto something here. And he has been on so many of these things.
42:44I remember in the first Trump administration the desire that Trump had not only to
42:50change trade with China but to renegotiate NAFTA, and all these people who were supposedly
42:54experts were saying, that's crazy, that's crazy.
42:57Of course it's not crazy.
42:59NAFTA was negotiated in the 90s.
43:03The Internet was barely a thing.
43:06Plenty of reason to look at the trade agreements that we have with neighboring countries
43:10and redo them. And so he was fundamentally correct on that.
43:13And in dealing with China, there was the collective wisdom, communist wisdom, the general consensus
43:25was, was if you do anything to China on trade, you're going to antagonize them
43:30and cause all these problems for the United States.
43:31Meanwhile, they were antagonizing us.
43:34We were in a trade war.
43:35It was just a one -way trade war.
43:36China against us. And we were sitting here...
43:38Like, we're free trade. We don't do that.
43:41Well, hold on a second.
43:42It's not free trade if they're not free trade.
43:44It just means that they're taking advantage of us.
43:48Trump fundamentally understood that power dynamic and took the necessary action to deal with it
43:53so effectively, I might add, that the Biden administration pretty much continued on with Trump
43:58policies on China, on trade.
44:01So, not that Biden was really awake long enough to know what was going on.
44:05The point is, I think that he earned the leeway to let him cook, as
44:09they say, as the kids say these days.
44:11Let him cook. Let Trump cook.
44:13And I think that he's doing a good job with this specifically.
44:18And he knows what's going to be to our benefit.
44:21And fine, they don't like the authority he was using.
44:24Now he's using a different authority.
44:25He's pointing, they've already cited what the statute is.
44:27They're going to use that statute.
44:28And they're going to keep going.
44:30And I think that it's going to be to the benefit of this country.
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46:23We're a couple minutes on Judge Cannon down here in Florida.
46:27The great state of Florida has ordered the Jack Smith special counsel report to be
46:38kept under wraps. There you go.
46:42This is for the Washington Post.
46:43A federal judge in Florida blocked public release of special counsel Jack Smith's extensive report.
46:49Extensive. On the classified documents case against President Donald Trump, a resounding victory for Trump's
46:54efforts to block public viewing of what probably would be damaging details.
46:59Well, that's what they're saying.
47:02About his retention of classified materials after he left the White House in 2021.
47:08The decision Monday morning from U .S.
47:09District Judge Cannon resulted from litigation.
47:12It's dragged on for more than a year.
47:14Cannon ruled that releasing the special counsel report could violate grand jury secrecy rules and
47:20result in impugning their presumption of innocence for Trump and his co -defendants in a
47:24case that did not result in guilty verdicts.
47:28The ruling can be appealed.
47:30Trump and the Justice Department opposed the public release.
47:32First Amendment advocacy groups and media outlets pushed in Cannon's court for release.
47:37Yeah, no surprise there. Smith charged Trump in 2023 with 40 counts.
47:43A little trip down memory lane.
47:4440 counts of illegally retaining classified defense information and obstructing government efforts to retrieve the
47:52materials. Two of Trump's personal aides were charged with obstruction alongside him.
47:5740 counts of illegally retaining.
47:59I mean, it's almost hard to...
48:02You go back in time and think about what they tried to do to Trump
48:05and all the stuff they did.
48:06You say, 40 counts? And that's just that one case.
48:10The 35 or 36 counts of the nonsense in New York.
48:15All these different judges, rather prosecutors, just completely abdicating their most basic ethical responsibilities all
48:24in the service of politics.
48:26And the craziest part of it all is that it helped propel Trump to be
48:31president again. The whole thing backfired.
48:34I mean, I think that is very clear now.
48:36The whole thing backfired on them.
48:39Thank heavens. I mean, thankfully, that's the way it went.
48:43But it is, in retrospect, just stunning that we went through this, that Trump went
48:50through this. You know, a lot of people get indicted for minor stuff and they
48:53can't sleep at night. You know, they're a wreck.
48:57They look gaunt. They lose weight.
48:59What's going to happen to me?
49:00I mean, Trump took four criminal cases in four different cases.
49:06criminal cases all bogus but he took them in stride that is pretty amazing and
49:12he took a bullet through the ear and he took that in stride too and
49:16this guy is he said it he is built different there is something very different
49:21about him he is able to keep going and keep pushing forward maybe there is
49:27something to drinking 15 diet cokes a day i don't know i like diet coke
49:32trump's got some secret that he could share with all the rest of us gavin
49:36newsom on the other hand gavin newsom oh boy we're going to be talking about
49:43him a lot we're not going to have a choice because he's going to run
49:45and he is going to make a lot of noise while he's running and i
49:49think he's probably going to be the democrat nominee maybe some other options that come
49:54up uh but i still think that gavin newsom ends up winning this thing tells
50:00you a lot there's 350 million people in this country give or take the best
50:05the democrats can do is this guy just you know i'm just like all of
50:09you i got a 960 on the sat and i can't read whoa gavin whoa
50:15buddy here he is on cnn another issue that he likes to weigh in on
50:22talking with uh dana bash about the trans athlete issue this is 29 hit it
50:32there's no doubt that the democratic party needs to be dare i say more culturally
50:37normal i believe that um less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns
50:46identity politics more focused on tabletop issues but i think if you can't hold the
50:51line on on competitive sports again uh the sports it's a there's some nuance in
50:56this larger conversation but competitive metal sports if we can't find that nuance i think
51:03we're going to lose a lot of people that aren't we're not going to get
51:06invited into a larger conversation so i do think we have to be more sensitive
51:09in that respect listen the way he kind of speaks about the issue but also
51:15dances around the issue dudes have an advantage over chicks in sports okay that's what
51:21we're talking about here that's obvious we all know this and that there is a
51:25lunatic 20 of the country all democrats who want to pretend like that's not the
51:32case is a huge problem for democrats at least in national elections and there's a
51:36whole chapter in my book manufacturing dilution about this where we talk about this issue
51:44uh where rather where i write about this issue and and how it's not a
51:50fringe issue to democrats it's a critical issue to democrats because first of all they
51:55have invested so much in this you have to remember they can't just walk away
52:01from this now they can't just say oh yeah we were wrong about that think
52:05of all the damage all the wreckage that has been left as a result of
52:09their lunacy no they want to keep they want to keep fighting on this they
52:13want to keep pushing forward on this because they also want to make people bend
52:23the knee to whatever madness is mandated they want to make you agree they want
52:30to make you nod and mouth the preferred slogans whenever they tell you to however
52:36they tell you to because they know they've got you then if they can make
52:41you say that a man is a woman or that a man can compete against
52:44a woman in sports and there's no disadvantage for the woman they can get you
52:48to say everything anything however they want to and that's the real power that they
53:00see there's also a huge um apparatus behind this uh this trans agenda stuff of
53:08uh you know what happens to like the gay rights movement for example all these
53:12entities that were supporting that all that you had a burger fell and then that
53:17sort of was that and now what do all these organizations entities do all has
53:23to be on the trans issue now where does it how does a progressive progress
53:27in the realm of uh gender and race and these things in an america that
53:34has gay marriage uh in all 50 states and in which if you actually look
53:41at the data on race there's there is no oh here we go there is
53:47uh no legalized systemic racism against non -white non -asian minorities in america in fact
53:55there are legalized racial benefits for those groups in this country that's the truth that's
54:02what the supreme court just found which i know also contrary to what we have
54:06been told for a very long time uh another manufactured delusion out there that the
54:14only racism that we could speak about was the kind of uh ephemeral or uh
54:20you know in the ether racism the the bigotry of broad perception all what about
54:28like minority contracting out of dc in the government where people pretend that there's some,
54:36like, Alaskan Inuit that is running their contracting company, and really it's just a bunch
54:43of rich guys who run this thing.
54:45It's just a mess, okay?
54:47The whole thing, it's a racial spoil system, and it must stop, and it's madness.
54:54So, yeah, that's another component.
54:57That's another component of all this.
54:58But Gavin Newsom is going to be out there making his case to the American
55:03people and doing everything that he can to appeal to anyone and everyone.
55:10And that means he's going to do the, you know, hey, I'm cool just like
55:14you, and I'm even going to change the way I talk a little bit and
55:18all of a sudden be a little more street, a little more down -to -earth.
55:23And, again, I can tell you that this is going to backfirm on him.
55:26I don't think it is.
55:27I think, if anything, Gavin Newsom is willing to say, whatever he needs to say
55:36to any audience in the moment, and that's what Democrats expect, actually.
55:41This is not, there's a, we often talk about the different, like, broad cultural themes
55:50of being on the right or being on the left in this country, but there's
55:53different political cultures, too. Democrats going around, and remember Hillary did her thing when she
56:02went to a black church and she spoke and everyone was, Democrats doing this thing
56:05where they pander. They're expected to pander.
56:09Now, there are some Republicans who pander a bit, too.
56:11I get it. But we're a little more like, you know, slow down on that.
56:18And particularly pandering to minorities or different religious groups is something that I think Republicans
56:22have less of a, well, tolerance of, yes, but also we don't demand it of
56:29our politicians. Democrats demand this.
56:31You have to play this game, and Gavin Newsom will certainly play it.
56:35But when he says that they're going to lose people unless they're willing to say
56:39that there's a fundamental issue of fairness in all of this, yeah, there's also, it's
56:45a dude saying he's a chick.
56:47This is not right. This is not true.
56:50They're lying to you. It's a person with problems.
56:53They're lying to you. We all see the lie.
56:57And I'm sure you've seen these, this guy who was, like, trying to compete in
57:02the Olympics, powerlifting. It's a large man.
57:06Says he's a woman, grows his hair out a little bit.
57:08Now he's going to compete against women?
57:10The whole point of sex -segregated sports is we understand that there are massive biological
57:15differences. And, look, go ask any of your bodybuilder bro friends out there or, you
57:22know, go online and just see what they have to say about this.
57:24You can run, you know, you can, as I say, you could pin testosterone at
57:30a certain level, and it starts to function pretty similarly to steroids.
57:35It's not technically, like, the same as some of these big nasty steroids that bodybuilders
57:41will take and that people will talk about.
57:42But just the hormone in super physiological levels, testosterone, will result in more muscle growth,
57:51more strength, these kinds of things.
57:53And men have a heck of a lot more testosterone naturally than women do.
57:58So it's also I saw, I think it was, I'm trying to remember who it
58:03was, shared online. They just finished this, like, big study that found out that men
58:07overwhelmingly have a higher sex drive than women do.
58:11It's like, I can't believe, we're still studying this stuff.
58:15It's like 75 % of men are more interested in sex more of the time
58:21than women are. Yeah, that sounds about right.
58:25That sounds about right. I think that is definitely the case.
58:29But the rejection of basic biology and the enforcement of a sameness over all of
58:36us that does not exist, this is also a dream of totalitarian regimes and has
58:41been for a long time.
58:42You'll notice something, whether it's in the Soviet Union or in Maoist China, people are,
58:50men and women dress far more similarly.
58:54It's very drab. Part of this is because they don't have the resources to, like,
58:58make nice clothing in those places at the time.
59:00But there was a huge move toward women doing the same roles as men, women
59:08going to the factories alongside men, all of this kind of stuff.
59:12It's actually why the Soviet Union had a whole, I'm talking about the Soviet Union,
59:16not modern Russia, had a whole universal child care program.
59:20Oh, yeah, you can read about it.
59:22You can check it out.
59:22Universal child care. You know, give your child in to the local, you know, commissar
59:29facility and then go work in the factory for 10 hours, you and your wife.
59:34So there's something about being able to break down the gender differences between us that
59:42is really also a form of ultimate control.
59:46And also I think that they recognize that for really most people, your immediate and
59:51most intense loyalties to your family and, you know, husbands to wives, and there are
59:57gender roles that our society is built on, if they can break those down and...
1:00:01place it with some other framework some other thing they can recreate society entirely that's
1:00:07like a much deeper philosophical view of the collectivist left but that all comes into
1:00:11play as well with the gender discussion and why they're always doing this gender and
1:00:17it's not even just the trans thing it's now it's you know non -gender agender
1:00:23bi -gender tri -gender whatever this stuff is so they come up with new stuff
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