Hour 1 - It's a Trap!
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0:33T's and C's apply. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show.
0:39It's deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra, I think, once memorably said.
0:45We've got a lot to dive into coming out of the weekend.
0:49A Mamdani terror attack outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City.
0:54Uh, the stock market panic of April of last year is back.
1:00It is, it should be only allowed to put the stock prices on your news
1:07screen. If you also show them when the stock market goes up, uh, but it's
1:12not going to surprise you that MSNBC and CNN typically do not do that.
1:16As I'm watching right now, MSNBC, uh, featuring the stock prices, which they have not
1:21done for the first year and a half.
1:23Most of the time when they have been positive, but when they turn negative, uh,
1:26also the price of gas, what gas is doing, uh, that is the line of
1:31attack that we told you all was going to be coming.
1:35And so we have a new announced leader in Iran, the son of the, uh,
1:41killed, uh, Ayatollah is, uh, poised to take over.
1:45And Buck, it feels to me, uh, first of all, exactly what we told you
1:50was going to happen is now the story on the left.
1:54They moved from, there's really no way to justify taking out the Ayatollah, which they
2:00had argued needed to be done for decades to, oh, the price of gas is
2:05up at gas prices is the number one story in America.
2:09It reminds me of when egg prices were the number one story in America, uh,
2:14early in Trump 1 .0, uh, the first year of Trump 2 .0, I should
2:18say. Um, and on top of that, uh, we also have a sort of echo,
2:24a reverberation of what happened last April when during the tariff battle, everyone said, oh
2:31my goodness, this is absolutely going to be the end of our country.
2:35We'll never recover from this.
2:37You and I said, stay calm, hold your stocks.
2:40If you have added money on the sideline, it's a good time to buy.
2:43I would echo that here.
2:45Um, and, uh, what we are seeing is there is a bit of a panic
2:50in the gas marketplace, which will at some point in time, it's already started to
2:56come back down quite a lot.
2:57Um, overnight gas prices went all the way up to $120 a barrel.
3:01They've come back down to around $110 a barrel, but all of this was very
3:05predictable. If you listened to us last week, you would know exactly what the talking
3:09points were going to be by Monday and Buck, here we are.
3:14The one super positive I would say is this is not going to last.
3:18The second super positive is the United States is less dependent on oil and gas
3:23from the Middle East than it has ever been in our entire nation's history, uh,
3:27because we have started to drill baby drill.
3:30And because we are now a net, I believe Buck exporter of oil and gas.
3:34In other words, we create enough, uh, to be able to satisfy all the demand
3:38here, which means we are not as subject to being, uh, able to be controlled
3:44by oil and gas in the Middle East as we have been in past, particularly
3:48with Venezuela now added on.
3:49All right, there we go.
3:50There's the lead in your thoughts as we begin Monday.
3:53I think he covered it.
3:54Honestly, I think the world is, uh, fixed according to Clay's strategic skill set here.
4:01I think we're good to go.
4:02Honestly, no, I mean, look, this is, we're so early stage.
4:04See you guys next week.
4:05Exactly. I was going to say, you guys, uh, you know, make sure you tip
4:07your waiter. We'll see you later.
4:08Look, this is such early stage of the Iran situation.
4:13Oil prices. Do we have Schumer?
4:15Schumer's like, we better open the strategic reserve.
4:18Do you have? Oh, 14.
4:20Yeah. Play, play cut 14 here.
4:22American families cannot afford to simply wait and hope for the price to come down.
4:28The solution is right here at home.
4:31Trump use the SPR, release it.
4:34Prices will come down. Stop this blather that it'll go away soon.
4:38It won't. There's a war going on over there.
4:41Just last night, I saw a big oil refinery in Iran hit by missiles.
4:47Okay. That makes it. It is just, just hold on a second here.
4:50First of all, you know, that star Wars meme with general, whatever his neighbor goes,
4:54it's a trap. Trap, you know, which, which has been used a lot on the
4:58internet. Maybe some of you don't know what I'm talking about, but there's the moment
5:03in star Wars where the Alliance or whatever realizes the rebel Alliance realizes it's trapped
5:08in this one general who's looks kind of like a, I don't know what you,
5:11how do you even describe what he looks kind of a rat like rat like
5:14would be a way to describe it.
5:16Is he rat? Anyway, he's got like a human rat.
5:19He's a weird alien for sure.
5:20But he goes, it's a trap going into the strategic reserve.
5:25right now it's a trap because what do you think they talk about for weeks
5:29if we do if we were to do that oh trump screwed up so much
5:32that he had to go in the strategic petroleum reserve right away please okay one
5:36thing you never do don't take strategy advice from your enemies that's that's rule number
5:41one and chuck schumer is not trying to help trump out here the gas prices
5:45have been high for a couple of days it's a lot of this has to
5:49do with speculators in the market and people who are making moves financial moves that
5:54are pushing the prices up higher right now but i think that you're going to
5:59see price come down also what we what was hit by israel and look the
6:02the administration based on the reporting they didn't love the optics of this but over
6:07the weekend the israelis hit and it was very clear the israelis did it not
6:11america uh the israelis hit uh some oil storage tanks essentially not the ability to
6:19create it's it's not the um uh extraction facility we weren't blowing up oil wells
6:25or oil derricks but we hit some we hit an oil some oil depots and
6:29that's meant to limit military response a huge part of what's going on right now
6:33is we're destroying all their mobile missile launchers because here's the thing about all the
6:37missiles they have buried underground if you don't have any launchers for them the missiles
6:42are worth a whole heck of a lot less militarily aren't they and we've taken
6:46out a good chunk of those mobile launches i would note this is very similar
6:50a lot of you are thinking back some of you some of you are probably
6:53hunting those scud launchers yourselves uh as part of uh desert storm this is like
6:59in iraq and we're going after remember the scud missile launchers clay and that was
7:02the big threat these long range missiles and we were blowing them up in the
7:06desert and that was a big concern and i'm talking uh 93 right that was
7:10when we did this 93 i was a i was a kid clay was finishing
7:13his phd and it's yet again the democrats who before anything has happened here before
7:21anything is going on they're trying to turn this into a political narrative and attack
7:26the president and say that this is all a mess mushtaba come in a this
7:32is not good this is not a good uh solution for us so this is
7:36not gonna work it's not gonna work right this isn't this isn't like they put
7:38somebody in place it's not like the venezuela situation clay so the punishment uh will
7:43continue here from the air um by the way first error of the week i
7:48want to apologize i was thinking of the wrong store star wars guy admiral akbar
7:53he's kind of a crustacean looking that's what yes that's admiral akbar was talking about
7:58yeah shrimp looking guy producer greg uh coming in strong there with his star wars
8:04nerddom so i want to apologize to the galactic empire out there that is already
8:07angry at me to start one of the funny things about chuck schumer is he's
8:13opposed the restocking of the uh the strategic reserves when prices have been really low
8:20uh because he said in the past that it is a giveaway to oil and
8:25gas companies to go buy up all the oil and gas at good prices i
8:31mean these guys really between schumer and hakeem jeffries they are the worst leadership i
8:37think that democrats have ever had hakeem jeffries looks i'm not sure there's ever been
8:43a debtor eyed person like you just look at him and he looks like he's
8:49incapable of emotion at all i mean it is really kind of a strange look
8:55that he has about him schumer is just weird um i think he's probably a
9:00strong strategic uh advocate for democrats in terms of the the nuances and intricacies of
9:07the senate but he's not a good communicator um and every time he comes out
9:12being reflectively opposed to trump isn't a very good angle uh but what i would
9:17say in general is first of all um again i think this is so important
9:21if you're the kind of person who gets nervous looking at stock prices on a
9:26day -to -day basis the best thing you can do is not check them just
9:31trust buy s &p 500 index funds leave your 401k untouched every few months check
9:37it over the years you're going to do great the worst thing you can do
9:41is respond emotionally when places like msnbc and cnn decide that they're going to start
9:46putting the stock market prices up as their lead story again they never do it
9:51when it's positive they only do it when it's a negative you you don't have
9:55to listen to us on this one and obviously do your own research and we
9:58don't give financial advice on the show and we certainly aren't telling you what stocks
10:01or or index or uh index funds to invest in but you can i am
10:06by the way s &p 500 is the law is the case of the play
10:09i'm telling you you're gonna beat the market almost always uh in terms of individual
10:16investors just buy s &p 500 index funds i am telling you that is what
10:21you should do and don't touch them for years there i love how the lawyers
10:24like forget the disclaimer forget the disclaimer when it comes to the best advice it
10:29is the best advice buy the 500 largest companies trust america and get out of
10:33the way clay turns into light them up linda via stocks he's like buy them
10:37buy them and hold them don't worry about it light them up uh so i
10:41have to tell you you can go and pick up any book by warren buffett
10:46anyone who you're like how did this person make so much money uh and over
10:51a long period of time Time, I might add.
10:53Not how did someone make a lot of money and then their hedge fund blew
10:55up two years later and now they're selling online courses.
10:59There's a lot of that out there, you know.
11:01I'm talking about people who really have understood, have mastered the market, and they'll just
11:07explain this to you. They'll say, first of all, unless you're doing this all the
11:10time for a living, and even then, you're probably not going to be better at
11:14generating wealth, generating returns, than the overall U .S.
11:18economy. So, Willie, what you want to do is, is America going to be richer
11:21or poorer in 10 years?
11:23I think the answer is quite odd.
11:24Let me add, if America is poorer in 10 years, the whole world is so
11:28messed up. We're all screwed anyway, Buck.
11:30It doesn't even matter what you've done.
11:31We're just talking, you know, yes, good to have gold, ammo, potable water.
11:36I mean, we're in a whole different universe, okay?
11:37America is going to be in a better place in 10 years, wealth -wise, overall.
11:43And so you invest in the market and you let it sit, and you don't
11:46get caught into, you want to invest, you don't want to gamble.
11:50Getting in and out, I'm going to buy this, I know more than these other
11:53people or whatever, that's gambling, basically, for most people, especially if you're doing it rapidly.
11:57And you don't want to be involved in that kind of stuff, because the data
12:01sets are very clear. You're not going to win.
12:03You're not going to win getting in and out of stocks all the time, as
12:06a side hustle from whatever your actual job is.
12:09The chance of you winning, if you invest in the U .S.
12:11economy, is look at the last 50 years.
12:14Look at 50 years of data and tell me what you think.
12:17So that's our short version.
12:19There we go. That is our TED Talk on investing today on the show.
12:22And also gas prices. All of a sudden, Democrats care so much about prices.
12:28I thought they wanted us to stop using gas, Clay.
12:30Whatever happened to whatever the cost is, climate change is an existential threat.
12:36And if you have to pay European -style gas prices, if you have to be
12:40making California look like gas is cheap, you're saving the world.
12:44Oh, it's an election year.
12:46Oh, all that stuff all of a sudden just kind of falls away.
12:50And they care about the kitchen table economic issues that they've been ruining every time
12:55they're in power, always and forever.
12:57We all know the game.
12:58It's just so predictable because the argument that we shouldn't have taken out the Ayatollah
13:05flew in the face of everything that Democrats have said publicly for decades.
13:09They couldn't manage to make that case.
13:12And so the pivot goes directly to, well, this is really not about the decision
13:16in Iran. It's just about what oil and gas prices are in the United States
13:21at this present moment. By the way, President Trump has said that this is not
13:25going to go on very long.
13:27There is polling out there that says this thing has 75%, 76 % approval if
13:33it lasts a month or less.
13:36And so I don't think we're going to get involved in a monthly bogged -down
13:42process here of multi -months.
13:44So again, stay strong. Don't panic.
13:48The exact same advice we gave you back in April.
13:51And if you're the kind of person who panics, don't look at stock prices.
13:56There are lots of other things you can spend your time on.
13:58You make sound, strategic, smart decisions, and then you just kind of get out of
14:02the way and don't allow yourself to sabotage because most of the time, the great
14:07quote from Warren Buffett is be greedy when others are panicking.
14:15Fearful. And fearful when others are greedy.
14:17Basically, I'm paraphrasing that. It's basically a counterintuitive take.
14:22Like, whatever the masses are doing, you often do better to go in the opposite
14:26direction. Yeah. If you believe in America, just think about it this way.
14:29America is the greatest wealth generation machine in the history of humanity.
14:35That is just a fact.
14:36That is true. And you can either bet on America or you can freak out
14:41and think that the world is ending tomorrow.
14:42But I can tell you this.
14:43The people that freak out and think the world is ending tomorrow, they give away
14:46their retirement upside and they lose.
14:49Yeah. So don't freak out.
14:51Don't freak out. It's going to be fine.
14:53You can't freak out. We've got to keep our composure.
14:55All right. You've got to splurge on yourself sometimes, though.
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17:01T's and C's apply. Welcome back into, oh wait, did you play it again so
17:06people could hear it? I talked over it.
17:09There you go. Admiral Ackbar.
17:11It's a trap. Yeah. Anytime Chuck Schumer gives you political advice as a Trump or
17:16Republican person, it's a trap.
17:20So there's that. And then, speaking of Ackbar, Allahu Ackbar, kind of a tough turn,
17:28but there's a very, very tough turn.
17:31Terrorist attack in New York City.
17:34And no one was heard in this one.
17:36There was attempted terrorist attack, I should say.
17:38But, oh, actually, one of the guys yelled, Allahu Ackbar.
17:42Yes. That's why I thought you were making the perfect transition.
17:45No, I just assumed. I mean, I made the assumption, but the assumption was correct.
17:48Because, you know, guess what?
17:49Usually when they do this, there's something they yell.
17:52One of them did yell, Allahu Ackbar, not Admiral Ackbar.
17:55And the lib media tried to make this.
18:00There's a protest. No one of the protests is breaking the law.
18:03It doesn't matter what. I don't care what they're saying.
18:05As long as they're not breaking the law, they're allowed to protest.
18:08And someone throws an IED, basically a homemade bomb at them.
18:15And the overwhelming, this was in New York City, outside of Gracie Mansion, the mayor's
18:19residence in New York, the commie mayor.
18:21And, Clay, the media focus was on the mean things that the people were saying
18:27at the protest, not the jihadist wackos who showed up and threw a bomb among
18:32them that fortunately did not kill anyone.
18:34We will talk about this when we come back from this break, because it is
18:38a big story and it's a significant story.
18:40And there are a lot of different angles to hit with it.
18:44And the media, not surprisingly, is not being honest with you.
18:49And we will take you into that story and why it matters.
18:52Also, by the way, our buddy Sean Hannity going to join us a little bit
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19:53Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck, Sexton show.
19:57Buck has no idea this is going on in much less serious news, but NFL
20:01free agency is officially underway, which if you're an NFL fan is like Christmas morning.
20:07And I'll just tell you this because I know we have Rush's audience way over
20:12indexed for NFL fans. The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Kenneth Walker, Seattle's star running
20:19back as their new running back.
20:21So now you have Patrick Mahomes with a great running back.
20:24There you go. Breaking news that's going to break much of the internet if you
20:28are a sports -related fan.
20:30And Travis Kelsey, a .k .a.
20:33Taylor Swift's husband -to -be, has decided he's not going to retire.
20:37So the Chiefs are running it back for one more big go -around if that
20:42is to be gleaned from social media right now.
20:46All right, that is not serious in the grand scheme of things.
20:49This is one of the most dishonest stories that I have seen in some time.
20:53And I know a lot of you in New York City have experienced this story
20:57and have paid attention to it.
20:59But I feel like many people out there are not aware of this story because
21:03frankly, Iran's going on and there's just so much activity out there.
21:07So let me try to simplify this in a way that everybody can understand and
21:13then we'll dive into more specifics.
21:15Buck, you correct me if I'm wrong on this.
21:18There was basically an anti -Muslim influence in New York City protest scheduled for outside
21:28of Momdani's Gracie Mansion home.
21:31That is where the mayor of New York City lives.
21:34Momdani is there. As this rally was going on, there were around, what I read,
21:39Buck, 20 protesters of that opinion.
21:42There were around 100 counter -protesters.
21:46So it's one of those things where...
21:47There are more people who show up to protest against the protest than showed up
21:51for the protest initially. While the protest is going on, among the counter -protesters, at
21:59least two individuals made a form of IED and hurled them while yelling Allahu Akbar,
22:11like basically endorsing in some way jihad.
22:15Those two individuals have been tackled.
22:19They later found they were arrested.
22:20They later found other devices that could have also worked as flammable IED devices.
22:28Jess Tish, who is running the NYPD, who you know, Buck, of the Tish family.
22:34Her family is mostly Republicans, I think, right, in general.
22:38I think her politics are— They're definitely billionaires.
22:40Yeah, I think that they are kind of known as Republicans.
22:46Here, let's see, is Jess Tish, cut three, saying the attempted bombing being investigated as
22:54an ISIS -inspired terror attack attempt.
22:58Cut three. The suspects here, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Khayoumi, are going to be prosecuted
23:03in federal court here in Manhattan, and a complaint will set forth criminal charges and
23:08the factual allegations supporting those charges.
23:12After that complaint is made public, which I expect to occur later today, I will
23:18be able to say much more about the investigation and what we have learned in
23:22this case. But it is crucial that we respect that process and not get ahead
23:27of it. That being said, I can confirm this morning that this is being investigated
23:34as an act of ISIS -inspired terrorism.
23:39Okay, one more cut here, Buck.
23:41This is where it particularly—so you heard the actual facts.
23:44Credit to Jess Tish in New York City, the head of the NYPD, effectively laying
23:49that out. Here is what Mamdani said.
23:53This was a white supremacist protest.
23:58Him not being—he's trying to hide what actually happened intentionally.
24:03This is cut one. On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where I
24:09live with my wife, Rama.
24:11Neither of us were home at the time.
24:14This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy, entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of
24:20New York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city.
24:25Anti -Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me, nor is it anything new for the
24:28one million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home.
24:33While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it
24:37should be allowed to happen.
24:39Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred.
24:43It does not belong only to those we agree with.
24:46It belongs to everyone. Okay, Buck, so I agree with the second part there.
24:51But again, what they're trying to hide is the white supremacists had nothing to do
24:56to the extent that this was a white supremacist rally.
24:59I don't even necessarily agree with that contextualization.
25:02I've never heard of this guy before, Jake Lang.
25:05I don't know if he's somebody that— I don't either.
25:07I've never heard of him, so it's not like he has some big resonance or
25:10some huge audience on the right.
25:11And I would just say, you know, there's a whole lot to discuss here.
25:15One, there's some report, Clay, that there was pepper spray used by the anti -Islamic
25:24protesters first. Now, that doesn't justify throwing an IED at somebody.
25:28Also, did you— You know, these are some of the details that need to be
25:30worked out. Is that just being said now as part of a defense strategy?
25:34But it doesn't justify an IED.
25:36I'm just trying to get all the facts out there.
25:37Also, you have to make the IED in advance.
25:40So even if you were pepper spray, it's not like— Yeah, it's not like you're—
25:44You don't accidentally show up with a bomb at a protest.
25:46You can't bring a bomb to a shoving match at a protest and be like,
25:50well, but they said something mean, obviously.
25:53The same way you couldn't pull out a pistol and be like, this guy is
25:56yelling mean things, so I just opened fire.
25:59So that's one part of it.
26:01But there's a lot going on here.
26:03Something that I like to point out, this notion of anti -Islamic bigotry.
26:07Islam is not a race.
26:08Islam is not an ethnicity.
26:09As part of a free and open society, you should be able to and have
26:15every right to be as critical of Islam as you want to be.
26:18If you're going to say that you do not believe Islamic ideology, Islamic faith is
26:23good in the West or has a role here, that is a legitimate discussion to
26:29have under our First Amendment and under just the basic free speech tenets of a
26:34free society. And you'll notice they always do this thing of Islam, they're calling it
26:40a white supremacist protest, right?
26:43By the way, I don't know this guy, Dick Lang.
26:45Maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
26:46I know nothing about him.
26:48I'm not familiar with him.
26:48There were only 20 people there in the protest.
26:51So the idea that this is somehow a super influential person, I mean, I do
26:55think. But even said, you can have awful views and not get blown up for
27:00having them. Well, absolutely. But I would also say, just on the merits here of
27:05the conversation, the Islamization of the West is a very serious and very real concern,
27:10and I think people should be allowed to talk about it.
27:13They should be... protected by law when they want to have a protest where they're
27:19like you know what honestly uh there's a little too much islamic influence going on
27:23in our local government or in our this is valid i know people don't necessarily
27:27want to want to uh go down this pathway but it is the truth and
27:31conversations about whether islam and the west are actually compatible as core and sort of
27:37foundational ideological and cultural systems also very valid it's not working out great in a
27:43lot of european countries my friends that have had a lot of islamization over the
27:47last few decades in fact some of the the really the most prominent contemporary french
27:52um uh author a novelist uh ulbeck it writes about this and writes novels about
28:01how france is essentially surrendering what it is to be french because they brought in
28:05so many uh such a large population of muslims who don't want to assimilate and
28:09are very open about this you've had the same problem in the uk the same
28:12reality so this is happening in countries that are very uh close to us in
28:17terms of heritage and history and culture and we are allowed to notice and have
28:21a conversation about that it's not the same this is my point clay it's not
28:25the same thing as saying oh i i you know i i don't i don't
28:29trust brown people it's actually not the same thing and they want to make it
28:33sound like it's the same thing it's not the same thing you're talking about an
28:36idea set an ideology a religion that is different from just a blanket oh this
28:42person of this skin color no that's why they want to say it's a white
28:45supremacist protest it is not necessary to be anti -islamic or to be critical of
28:49islam is not the same thing as being a white supremacist is my fundamental point
28:53here they want to make it about that because in our society we rightly reject
28:58the idea that you can judge people based on skin color or you can treat
29:02people poorly or think less of a person because of skin color that's unethical that's
29:08immoral saying that i think that islam when it reaches a critical mass of people
29:13that believe in it is sometimes problematic for a free western society that's a conversation
29:19that people can have that's a real thing that's out there actually it's a conversation
29:23that we should have uh if uh we're going to uh look at american immigration
29:28policy i actually was skeptical of this buck because it's like the protesters designed the
29:36absolute best thing that could have happened for their protest and it happened by which
29:42i mean if you were going to show up and say hey radical islam is
29:46a real threat to america and we should be talking about it more than we
29:51are right that's the protest writ large and then a radical islamic terrorist showed up
29:56and tried to throw a bomb at you while you were protesting the danger of
30:00radical islamic terrorism it feels too perfect and then it doesn't go off right so
30:08you don't actually deal with the danger of the attack it feels like a best
30:13case scenario for the protesters and my general proposition is i'm skeptical when the best
30:19thing that could ever happen to you is you become a victim of an attack
30:23and then you become a victim of an attack but it really does appear based
30:27on all the evidence here that these guys showed up and tried to ied tried
30:33to bomb and kill the relatively limited 20 people buck nobody would have even known
30:39this protest happened if these guys hadn't shown up and tried to blow it up
30:43right uh it wouldn't be a story we wouldn't be talking about it 20 people
30:47showing up and protesting anything is not a story there were more people showing up
30:52to protest against the protesters and so these guys showing up and trying to bomb
30:57the uh the protest is what made it a story these uh these are young
31:02guys whose parents were brought in as immigrants which again goes directly right to the
31:08criticism of the protest stop bringing in i saw you tweet about this i think
31:12is very very uh astute stop bringing in so many foreign muslims into america because
31:18the risk of terrorism from that group is high at a protest is being said
31:24where people of islamic heritage show up with a bomb to try to kill the
31:29people it's unbelievable saying this i mean this is a little bit of the this
31:34is the uh this takes us back into a conversation which is you know islam
31:37is a religion of peace and you better say it or we're going to cut
31:39your head off i mean this was a big thing that we were dealing with
31:43for a long time uh certainly during the jiwat era uh in this country and
31:48uh people notice that as well remember that that was post 9 11 there was
31:53a whole effort islam is a religion of peace no no that's actually not first
31:57of all you never hear people say about no other religion gets this sort of
32:00blanket it's a religion of peace you wouldn't hear that about any other even really
32:04i mean quakers i don't even hear that about i mean i think quakers yeah
32:07if you have to say it as the talking point it actually means there's a
32:11lot of evidence there's a problem side right yeah well it's also the opposite of
32:15reality as we all know okay i mean you don't have quakers running in and
32:18blowing themselves up with suicide vests yelling god is great in their you know in
32:22in in arabic uh and we all know every time there's a jihadist anywhere in
32:26the world there's this playbook there's this these things that uh that line up and
32:30it's all ideologically based but i would just know clay i was looking through this
32:34this jake lang guy so he was uh he was at j he was a
32:36january 6 protester he was pardoned by i'm just looking at what's said online about
32:41from the different sites part by trump also at anti -ice uh oh sorry a
32:47counter protester to the anti -ice demonstrations uh i have seen i i don't know
32:52what his rhetoric is or whatever but for them to call him a white supremacist
32:56i have not seen whites i've seen him saying that we should have immigration laws
33:00enforced at protests and i've seen that he doesn't like the islamification of new york
33:05i have not seen him say you know what you would consider to be actually
33:09white supremacist stuff maybe he did i'm not saying i'm just i'm looking at what's
33:13out there about the number of the expansive nature by which white supremacy has replaced
33:18racism right remember uh joe biden told us that white supremacy was the number one
33:24danger facing our nation i mean he did an entire address where he said and
33:29you and i i remember after that came on and said we can't even name
33:32an actual white supremacist they always go back to david duke from 1988 or whatever
33:37the heck it was it's also really insulting because when we go to the airport
33:41and we have to get there you know an hour and a half early because
33:44of the security the security lines are because of islamic radicals okay that's reality that's
33:49why we all have security lines that's why we have to go through airport metal
33:53detectors it's just the truth we all know it so like it's it's not because
33:58of january 6 guys you're not being patted down every time you go to the
34:02airport you're getting a reminder of who the real concern is for terrorism every time
34:06yeah i i find it highly unlikely that the mom who's trying to breastfeed and
34:13has a bottle filled with her breast milk is making me dangerous uh on the
34:18airplane flight that i'm going and and they want they always try to make this
34:21a racial thing there are muslims who are as as white as me there are
34:25muslims who are as white as can be there are muslims who are black there
34:28muslims who are brown there muslims who are asian their muslims are all different and
34:31yes a vast vast majority of them are just normal people living their lives peacefully
34:34and everything else but if you're wondering where the ideological threat of terrorism primarily globally
34:39comes from what ideological tradition what faith tradition it's not a hard conversation to have
34:44or rather it's not a hard answer to come to as much as they want
34:48to pretend that we don't know no we know actually we know if as a
34:51descriptive device you have to say the opposite of what many people think about it
34:56then it's probably a sign that there's a lot of evidence right you don't say
34:59you know clay travis who absolutely positively never wants to murder anybody was yeah i've
35:06never murdered anybody i think i don't you don't need to like as an introduction
35:08of me explain that i'm very anti -murder right i mean when you it is
35:13again this whole protest the fact that it went off the way it did it's
35:17like if jussie smollett had actually been a victim like he claimed that he was
35:22which would have been the best thing for jussie smollett i would have been like
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