Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Feb 17 2026
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0:33T's and C's apply. Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show.
0:38We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
0:43Off the top, it is the five -year anniversary of Rush Limbaugh passing.
0:49We have got a special show that is up on the podcast to honor him.
0:56Obviously, we are talking about it off the top of this program.
0:59But five years ago today, I know, was a very tough day for many of
1:04us. And we are conscious of that.
1:07And thinking about the Limbaugh family as we are moving throughout the course of today's
1:13program. A lot of different news stories out there.
1:18Before we dive into all of those, it is also a significant day because Buck
1:22Sexton's first ever book has been released.
1:25It is in bookstores everywhere.
1:28I'm sure that you are doing promotions all over the place in addition to this
1:33program. But Buck, right off the top, what would you want people to know about
1:41the book and where can they get it?
1:43Thank you, Clay. Yeah, Manufacturing Delusion is out.
1:48How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda against You.
1:52It's really about the tactics and history of mind control and how you can make
1:58people go crazy, basically. Or how people allow themselves to be made crazy.
2:04Unfortunately, because of some of the headlines, especially some of the trans shooter stuff, I
2:07have a whole chapter in the book on what is called menticide.
2:11I didn't coin that phrase.
2:14A very formerly very well -known and prominent psychiatrist named Dr.
2:18Juice Mirlew coined the phrase.
2:20Wrote a book called Rape of the Mind, where he goes into it's really a
2:25step -by -step of how you break people down, how you decondition them, how you
2:28radicalize them, how you do all of these things.
2:30And the menticide chapter, I deal with transgenderism and the trans agenda.
2:34So it is very much, that's just one way in which it's very much in
2:39the current, in the zeitgeist, if you will, of politics.
2:44It's definitely dealing with things happening right now in the news and all around.
2:50And I would just note, Clay, right off the top, everybody, look, the book seems
2:54like it's doing pretty well.
2:55I've had some great people.
2:57You know, I've got Megan Kelly did a great interview with me on the book.
3:02I'll be with our friend Sean Hannity this week and Glenn Beck and, you know,
3:05a lot of the people who have been friends and mentors to me over the
3:09years. And they're very, very much on board, which that'll obviously help.
3:13But honestly, whether this book is a success or failure, it depends on you, all
3:18of you who are listening across the country.
3:20I'm not just saying this.
3:21I don't know if I'm ever going to do another book.
3:22Look, I'm not like Clay.
3:24Clay can do a book in 90 days and then he wants to do another
3:26book. But Clay also will do 30 media hits a day and looks crisp like
3:30a $100 bill. He's not human, folks.
3:32I don't know how he does it.
3:32He's got three kids. He's built a business.
3:35You can never go beyond Clay's media capacity.
3:40Like, he's always got more in the tank.
3:41It's amazing. I think this is my one book.
3:44I think I'm one and done.
3:46And it's just because it took so much and the CIA had to review it.
3:49I talk about my CIA missions to Nigeria, to Mosul, Iraq, to Baghdad, to Afghanistan.
3:57I mean, things I've never talked about.
3:59Not in great detail, but I get into some of the stuff, some of my
4:02remembrances. First time I was in a Black—oh, sorry.
4:05I think it was the second time I was in a Black Hawk and it
4:07opened up and started shooting all over the place.
4:09And I was like, this is not really what I signed up for.
4:12Actually, no, it is what I signed up for, apparently.
4:14And then there's all that.
4:16But, Clay, I bring this up because this audience—and it is—I know it's the five
4:20-year anniversary of Rush's passing.
4:21This is the house that Rush built, and we try to be the best custodians
4:25we possibly can every day and serve you, this audience that Rush Limbaugh served for
4:3030 years. I would just say this.
4:32I need you guys to do me a solid—there are some Trump haters, and therefore
4:37also people that despise the right and would have hated what Rush did for.
4:42Hey, there are some Trump haters out there with books.
4:45In fact, one today, John Meacham's book is out today.
4:49He's a lunatic Trump hater, and he's a book guy.
4:51I'm a radio host who's written a book.
4:53I did write it, by the way.
4:54Something else, Clay, I'm just going to point out.
4:56I'm not naming any names here.
4:57I write my books. Clay writes his books.
4:59Very few people actually write their books, which is a whole other thing, too.
5:02You know, a lot of people churn out, book, book, book, book.
5:04And it's fine, but, like, there's a little name on the front cover usually below
5:09their name that's actually the person who did all the writing and research.
5:11I actually wrote this book, as Clay writes his books.
5:14Here's just a note, though.
5:15John Meacham, this is cut to—this is a flashback, Clay, to the election in 25.
5:19This is the esteemed presidential historian and scholar who has a—I'm not going to name
5:24in the book he has a book out today but this is the guy just
5:27so you know who you're dealing with play 25.
5:30Harris isn't on trial here in the same way president biden wasn't on trial when
5:34he was running we are the american people are on trial if a sufficient number
5:38of us and a sufficient number of states choose to ignore the evidence that as
5:44the bible says those with eyes to see and ears to hear can detect then
5:49we have no excuse we might have an explanation which is that for a series
5:54of reasons people are not holding the republican party and the nominee of that party
6:00to rational account and i think that this is a test of citizenship in a
6:04way that certainly you'd have to go back i think to both the 19th century
6:09and the civil rights era to find anything equivalent yeah it's just like the civil
6:17war all over again if you voted for trump you're on the wrong side of
6:19it that guy that guy has a book out today which is crap by the
6:23way just a bunch of like him talking about other people's essays but i can
6:27tell you the lib intelligentsia literate of the literati the literary apparatus they're all behind
6:33it that book has to be number one or it's a failure help me beat
6:36his book you listening to this can help me beat the book today do you
6:40want you want the smug lib who hates trump thinks that you're on the wrong
6:44side of the super war if you voted for him and the wrong side of
6:47the civil rights act and thinks trump is a nazi you want his book to
6:49be number one you want my book a book to be number one it's up
6:52to you i i humbly put myself in all of your hands i don't care
6:56buy the book give it to your give it to your best buddy give it
6:59to uh you know the your neighbor pass it off to them at the fence
7:03line when you're watering your azaleas or something i don't care buy a book if
7:07you would please for me today do me this solid and that is the way
7:11that you can show the libs that the right still reads we still care and
7:17we're not letting some smug anti trumper get the number one no way clay thank
7:21you for letting me make my pitch to this incredible audience of patriots and great
7:26americans who i know are right now going on that amazon order page or wherever
7:30they go maybe they're going to a bookstore that's great too and they're getting that
7:33book manufacturing delusion but i'm probably never going to make this ask to you guys
7:38ever again so go buy this book buy it today awesome do it um and
7:43uh you can find it amazon i bought it there i got it today a
7:47lot of you who pre -ordered will get it today but it can get shipped
7:50out as quick as uh as quick as a day uh in many different places
7:54out there and obviously bookstores all across america and i did the audiobook at your
7:58suggestion by the way i actually recorded the audiobook myself so if you download the
8:02audiobook it's me reading it to you so that's kind of fun that's right um
8:06and that is a lot of work for people who don't know you sit in
8:09a studio all by yourself for hours and hours reading every word that you wrote
8:14oftentimes i'm sure this happened to you too you read a paragraph and you're like
8:18i wish i'd written that better or i wish i had started with this sentence
8:21or why did i use that word i'm a moron like uh it is very
8:26humbling to go back and read every word out loud so uh i would encourage
8:31all of you get out there and uh and buy the book um and it
8:35actually ties in today with we'll get into this in a little bit more detail
8:40but we had another trans shooter buck we had another trans shooter and i hate
8:48that this story is out there um and continues to be out there but it
8:53has become unfortunately an awful trend nashville tennessee my hometown trans person shoots up a
9:01christian school kills a bunch of innocent people minneapolis trans shooter shoots up an actual
9:08church service kills a bunch of innocent people uh and now uh you uh see
9:16in rhode island a well we just had last week in canada a trans shooter
9:23killed a ton of people in a school related shooting and now during a high
9:29school hockey game a guy who was pretending to be a woman shot and killed
9:38two people wounded i believe three and killed himself as well and i don't even
9:45know as a society how we can avoid having real conversations now just as reasonable
9:52people about what is going on uh but the dishonesty in the media is crazy
10:00this is the new york times how they uh how they covered it at a
10:05news conference on monday night chief gone call days said this is in uh the
10:11providence uh rhode island area i believe said the shooter was born in 1969 and
10:18went by two different names they don't even say this was a man who decided
10:26to identify as a woman he destroyed his entire family the narcissism on this buck
10:31is off the charts his wife said no i'm not going to go along with
10:36this delusion and said hey we're not going to support you deciding to become a
10:43woman this is ridiculous and uh he got divorced she divorced him and then he
10:50showed up and he killed her uh at you a high school hockey game i
10:55don't know how we can have an honest society if we're not willing to ask
11:01very basic questions on this what drugs are these people on is it making them
11:06more violent why off the charts now mass shootings are they being committed by trans
11:12people well clay actually i think a lot of these cases um it's they aren't
11:18on enough uh or they aren't on the proper meds just keep that in mind
11:22too as in this is not treated necessarily it is not treated as a mental
11:28illness you are to be affirmed in this yeah so there's the drugs you take
11:33to transition genders clay these people are not necessarily told you need substantial doses of
11:39an ssri or an snri or something like that by the way a lot of
11:43people with mental illness millions and millions of them that stuff actually really helps them
11:49and on the right people get a little quick to be like oh have you
11:52ever been around somebody who's schizophrenic you ever been around somebody who has really serious
11:56ocd these meds let them function in their lives now there are some people who
12:01are over medicated and some people have the wrong medications there's a lot of these
12:04things but in this case clay the big problem is that this is not pathologized
12:08at all yeah this is affirmation this is not a disease or an issue to
12:14be treated and handled it is a civil rights issue now what happens if you
12:21have mutilated your genitalia because you listened to the american medical association and all these
12:28different groups and the doctors and the big hospitals and and cnn and the new
12:33york times editorial page and all this and you turn around and some goes no
12:37this was all a lie you're already dealing with a person who is deeply unstable
12:42and mentally ill and then you tell them that they've ruined their lives you know
12:46this is the the basic question you brought this up did this person have mental
12:52illness ask a lot of people this in public and i mean people whether it's
12:58in the news clay or law enforcement or doctors who are supposed to be able
13:03to diagnose these things or understand them they'll say it's not clear i can't diagnose
13:07really really this person didn't this person wasn't crazy let's just use the c word
13:12crazy was this person crazy obviously yes why are we all told that we can't
13:18say that this person was crazy crazy people need help they do not need applause
13:23for their craziness yes and when you're we have been sold a bill of goods
13:31on this which is that affirming someone's insanity actually makes them healthier and if you
13:40translate this outside of trans related issues and you just said hey is it kind
13:47to tell people you're really hearing voices is it kind to tell people that they're
13:52able to talk to talk to dead people would it be kind to affirm someone
13:57who is schizophrenic in the belief that their delusions are real the answer of course
14:03would be no and so what we have done in an act of intended empathy
14:09is actually i think made people who are ill that much more ill and unfortunately
14:16now buck what you're seeing is did you see this guy say in response to
14:21the trans congresswoman uh congressman whatever the dude is uh that is pretending to be
14:27a chick in congress he said if you don't affirm our uh our genders we're
14:32gonna go berserk the day before he went and killed a bunch of people so
14:37we've now created a world where if you question someone's gender identity they believe they
14:44are entitled some of them to engage in violence against others as a way to
14:50speak out against uh not being accepted now i i just think this is going
14:56to get worse um unfortunately we have created this entire trans world um and these
15:05people and i think partly buckets the drugs that they take uh are committing acts
15:11of mass violence on a scale that is unprecedented when you consider how small the
15:17population actually is keep bashing us is what he tweeted but do not wonder why
15:24we go all caps berserk as his comment yesterday before he showed up at a
15:31high school hockey match and started uh started attacking people i just i mean it
15:37is how many of these we just had one a few days ago in british
15:41columbia and canada and now we have another one minneapolis nashville this four direct shootings
15:47in the last year and a half or so that have been entirely perpetrated by
15:52trans people well i mean mass acts of mass murder that are really acts of
15:57domestic uh terrorism in a sense i mean this is ideologically driven now these people
16:02are also crazy but a lot of jihadis for example are also crazy they do
16:07it because they think they're going to get the 72 virgins and all that stuff
16:10yes but so there's an ideological component to it but they're also psychologically unstable not
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16:20ideologically aligned and again i know that this is sounds like i'm i'm all setting
16:25stuff for the book but this is why i talk about uh this is what
16:27i talk about in manufacturing delusion because people are doing this to people the whole
16:31trans thing was was there's a system this has been systematized this is this is
16:37being created uh by an apparatus that views this as important for the projection of
16:46power important for the projection of an ideology and that's why clay i mean you
16:52can't even believe this stuff when you see the graph uh the graphs of um
16:55how many kids now identify as transgender or not yes it's up like thousands of
17:00a percentile it's crazy it's obviously been done this has the decision has been made
17:05by people in power to do this uh we'll come back we'll continue to break
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18:47wise .com t's and c's apply all right welcome back into clay and buck we're
18:51joined by congressman jim jordan of ohio congressman always a pleasure uh thank you for
18:58coming to hang out on clay and buck once again and i know you have
19:01some new reading material especially because having been a doubter of the 104 mile an
19:07hour serve we know you're not a doubter of the soon -to -be bestseller manufacturing
19:12delusion congressman so i'm glad you have your comments congrats congrats thank you uh i
19:18look forward to uh reading every single word and learning um no i've heard you
19:24talk about and some of the things you you cover in the book so i
19:26i'm excited about getting the chance to uh to look through it thank you i
19:29talk about the origin of the assassin is uh nazari ismaili sack they talk about
19:33like there's cool stuff in there beyond just the political commentary and some of the
19:37uh psych uh you know sort of psycho political analysis stuff uh anyway so please
19:42go get your copies everybody manufacturing delusion congressman how are we doing how i mean
19:47i you know we we just i want to take a step back it's been
19:49a year of trump and we we were ready to say you know the call
19:54the balls and strikes on stuff on the big policy issues everything looks great on
19:58the immigration issue things have been phenomenal at securing the border deportation is obviously ongoing
20:04democrats want to hold up a portion of government funding over the like can you
20:09explain what the heck is going on with that yeah this is the crazy left
20:13again you know they did it for 43 days last uh last fall on uh
20:17you know on obamacare you know where everything they told us turned out to be
20:20false like your plan keep your plan like your doctor keep your doctor premiums will
20:24go down you know they were over three uh but they want to shut down
20:27the government for 43 the same mindset here they're saying oh unless you change uh
20:32policies on how you go get people who are in this country illegally uh we're
20:36going to shut the government down which is exactly what they did but they forget
20:39to address and you guys were talking about this last week uh and doing a
20:43great job uh and until they address the sanctuary jurisdiction crazy policies that are out
20:50there um i don't know how you get a handle on it because what's happened
20:54in now almost a third of the country 18 cities 11 states uh three counties
21:00and the district of columbia representing 31 percent of the population of our great country
21:04so in roughly a third of the country left -wing political officials tell their local
21:10law enforcement don't work with federal law enforcement when you have in your jail in
21:16your detention center an illegal migrant who's also been charged with some other crime when
21:21a detainer is sent there from the federal government saying just hey if you're going
21:24to release this guy let us know give us a call we'll come pick him
21:28up there at the jail or at the detention center but instead they say no
21:32we're going to release him to the streets and 17 ,000 times that we know
21:36of bad guys were released to the streets in one year's time 2025 and many
21:42of them went out and did crimes i mean one guy was released the very
21:46next day he killed an individual who was was under a detainer.
21:49So until we address that, I don't know how you solve this, because that whole
21:54policy creates this environment, this framework, where you get the bad things that have happened,
21:59the tragic things that happened, like we saw up in Minneapolis.
22:03We're talking to Congressman Jim Jordan.
22:05Congressman, appreciate you coming on.
22:06You just, we had a conversation about this, and I think it's really important for
22:10people out there. Supremacy clause says that the federal government gets to make decisions on
22:16immigration. You and I talked about this, but I want to hammer it home here.
22:20We talked on this program, you probably came on and talked about it with us,
22:23and I know a lot of people in Texas came on and talked about it,
22:27the fact that Texas wanted to secure their border, and the court said Texas can't
22:32do it because the state cannot make immigration policy the federal government does.
22:37I don't understand, and I think it's a really easy legal argument to tie together,
22:42why Texas couldn't take that act, and all of these, as you just said, 31
22:46% of the country, states, cities and states that are blue, think that they can
22:51basically implement their own immigration policy.
22:54I think the courts have to make this determination.
22:57Great point, and we're going to try to help them by passing legislation out of
23:00our committee next week, which would address that fact and say, no, no, federal law
23:04preempts, and if you have a state that says, let's say you've got a county
23:07in California that says, no, we're conservative, our sheriff, we want to work with federal
23:11law enforcement in the situation I just described, we want to work with them, and
23:14they say, well, no, no, you can't do that because of state law.
23:16We want to be able to say, no, if that federal, if that county sheriff
23:19or that county jurisdiction wants to work with the federal government, they can go ahead,
23:22and we will step in and represent them and defend them if, in fact, the
23:26state comes after them. So that's part of what we want to pass in our
23:29bill next week, not to mention, if you're one of these states and you have
23:33sanctuary city policies, there should be some ramifications in the federal funding that comes in
23:37certain grant programs to your state.
23:39And then finally, we want to put in the bill as well, if you're a
23:43family or an individual who's been harmed by someone who was let out, who should
23:48have been not released to the streets, but released to ICE, if they let that
23:52individual out and they do something harmful to you or your family, you have a
23:56private right of action. That's the only way I can see that we can address
23:59this problem and deal with what, again, 31 .5 % of the United States population
24:05is living under as we speak.
24:08That's how important this is.
24:09And again, as I said, if we don't address this, I don't know how you
24:12you get a handle on all this situation.
24:15How are we doing when it comes to maintaining control of the House?
24:20I know we're early, but we are in a midterm cycle.
24:23How do you see this?
24:24What do you feel like are the top issues?
24:27Obviously, Trump administration's dialing in here on the economy affordability, but also able to look
24:33at some pretty impressive numbers on on GDP.
24:35And obviously, you know, the stock market has been has been rocketing up.
24:39So what do you see as the central?
24:40Is it just going to be the economy immigration election?
24:43Is health care going to play a bigger role as you move along?
24:47How do you see it?
24:49And in a general sense, I think modern day campaigns are pretty basic.
24:52Tell them, tell go tell the people what you did.
24:54We ran for the job.
24:55You guys elect this. Here's what we did.
24:57We did what we said.
24:58And you can say we've secured the border.
24:59We've cut taxes, record tax cuts, record time in securing the border.
25:03We gave school choice to parents in the big, beautiful bill.
25:05And we can rattle off all the things we've done.
25:07And then I think it's always important in modern politics to remind the voters what
25:13happens if the left gets back in charge.
25:15Never forget to remind the voters the left is crazy.
25:18It's crazy to defund the police.
25:20It's crazy to say you want to abolish ICE.
25:21It's crazy not to have a border, which is all the things that were taking
25:24place under the previous administration.
25:25It's crazy to shut down the government for 43 days.
25:27It's crazy to have this sanctuary city policy where you release bad guys onto the
25:33street who do harm to people in those communities when you could have turned them
25:37over to federal law enforcement.
25:38So I think we have to remind the voters of that as we move forward.
25:42And then also underscore, I do think the economy is improving.
25:45We had 4 .3 % growth last quarter.
25:48Stock markets had 50 ,000.
25:49I mean, it's like unbelievable what we're seeing.
25:51So remind the voters of that as well.
25:53But that's what campaigns are.
25:55We're going to say one thing.
25:55They're going to say another.
25:56We're going to have the debate.
25:58And the people get to decide.
25:59But I feel like we've got a good story to tell, particularly when we also
26:02remind the voters, remember what happens when the left's in charge.
26:06We can go back to that if they win this mid -chirm.
26:10I think this is an important argument you just made.
26:12And let me give you an example that I think you're going to be nodding
26:15your head at because it's just across the Potomac from where you are.
26:18Abigail Spanberger got elected in Virginia.
26:20She ran 100 % as a moderate, as a no -nonsense mom who just wants
26:26to be a normal leader.
26:28She has gotten in office.
26:29And in her first month in Virginia, they're trying to knock Republicans down to one
26:35congressional seat. They have embraced far left -wing crazy town agendas.
26:41Tax increases have come across.
26:43She in one month has demonstrated that she is actually a radical leftist.
26:48I like what you said, Jim, because Trump is maybe the most transactional president that
26:54we've ever seen in that he said, here's the list of things I'm going to
26:57do. This is what I'm going to run on.
27:00And then he got into office and he basically just went right down the list.
27:03Check, check, check, check, check.
27:05Whereas they lie and do the opposite of what they claim they're going to do.
27:09Great, great point. And you could add to that list of what Governor Spanberger is
27:13focused on, too, is taking away people's Second Amendment rights.
27:15And then in the state of virginia so it just she ran as the quote
27:18moderate governor who is you know had a background in the cia and working in
27:22in the military she ran as that individual and gets in and does all the
27:26left -wing things and they're you're right on the on the redistricting they're looking to
27:30take a six five six democrats five republicans virginia to ten to one and they
27:35got all this this these spider you know these links coming out from northern virginia
27:40all over the state so yeah that that i think again remind the voters this
27:44is who the left is and the left now controls the democrat party and they
27:49will go for all these all these crazy policies i still maybe we talked about
27:54this before but sarah huckabee sanders a few years ago i use this all the
27:57time but i thought it was well done she gave the response to the state
28:00of the union and her best line was when she said the divide in america
28:03today is normal versus crazy and you can go down the list of all the
28:07crazy policies the left has i think it's always important to remind the voters that
28:11that's the case and when you do the vast majority of voters are common sense
28:15people and they'll elect republicans congressman um to that to that end of normal versus
28:20crazy we started off the show talking about the horrific shooting um in rhode island
28:27involving a clearly i mean you just look at a photo of the guy the
28:30guy's deranged i thought the guy's clearly not yeah okay clearly not yeah kills his
28:35own family the whole thing a horrible horrible situation horrible story we know that there
28:39have been a series of these shooting shootings uh you know high profile mass murder
28:44shootings involving these uh individuals who are psychotic and who are you know self -identify
28:49as trans and the whole thing do democrat colleagues in congress really believe this transgender
28:58ideology stuff on in on the on the whole in general or are they just
29:03too scared of the 10 to 15 percent of the radical left of their party
29:09like i'm just wondering if you can give us some context here for you know
29:13does hakeem jeffries really think there's no difference between a man and a woman that
29:16babies are assigned gender at birth does he believe that if you sit down over
29:20tea with him or coffee or whatever is he like yeah babies get assigned gender
29:24at birth like because i want to see congressman jeffries say that if he believes
29:27that yeah i think the vast majority don't believe that i but i i think
29:32again we're back to the energy in their part almost has embraced this you know
29:41this whole transgender thing and a host of other crazy policies and that that's that's
29:46the energy so that's where they get the financing that's where they get the the
29:50campaign bodies it's dry it's driven by politics so i do think that's the case
29:54um again it's just like time and time again we see these these crazy things
29:59happen and and the left will go defend uh the the transgender policies out there
30:04that that seem to be part of this so um i i i don't think
30:07they they buy it but i do think it's driven by the hard left and
30:11the politics that are associated with that good stuff as always have you been watching
30:17the winter olympics how do you think you'd do as a curler i'm fascinated by
30:22the whole thing so i'll click it on and watch a little bit of it
30:25and and then of course the controversy you know that was unbelievable like his what
30:29his finger i think it was the canadian i forget what team like his finger
30:33touched an extra little pusher a little spin or something like wow um go go
30:38go figure so yeah i am fascinated by it but i i actually prefer the
30:41sportswear here like like the cross -country skiing like that is just those people are
30:45just tough so i kind of like watching some of that did you see the
30:48video of the guy running uphill on skis at a six minute mile pace i
30:54mean that is one of the craziest things i've ever seen no kidding no kidding
30:58so those guys are amazing and and the speed skating this uh this uh the
31:02stoles guy i think has uh won so many medals he he's like old school
31:06i saw this piece in the wall street journal he's like old school he went
31:09back to the old coach who just like train hard train harder than everybody else
31:12and that's how you win not so much of you know rest this day and
31:16do this and do that it's just like we're just going to outwork them um
31:19which i kind of i kind of appreciate that old school mentality good stuff as
31:23always congressman come on with us whenever you want and uh enjoy the rest of
31:27the winter keep up you bet keep up the great work guys thanks thank you
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32:53wherever you get your podcast welcome back in our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton
32:59show go buy Buck's book manufacturing delusion I have reviewed it on Amazon thank you
33:08I do not see that my review has yet popped on the Amazon page Clay
33:13gave it four stars because he doesn't want me to get a big head over
33:15it so that's right um and uh it is I purchased it I got it
33:20today um as those of us who purchased it early did um and again I
33:26would encourage all of you book is out today everywhere among the reviews a harrowing
33:32brilliant important read Megan Kelly terrifying brilliant essential and ex -CIA officers unmasking of totalitarian
33:42mind control Glenn Beck meticulously researched and exceptionally written manufacturing delusion is more than a
33:50book it's a tool to protect your mind and soul best -selling author Jack Carr
33:56uh okay those are among the reviews that you can find at amazon .com and
34:03other locations as well Buck you and I are going to be in Texas in
34:08a short order about two weeks from today because exactly two weeks from today is
34:16the very first uh major primary that I believe will occur in the nation when
34:23Texans will be going out and voting for their nominees in a wide variety of
34:28different races including the one that is getting the most attention in the state again
34:33we want all of you to go vote top up and down bottom to top
34:37uh in the Texas primaries many different important races that are going on but the
34:44uh Texas senate race is receiving the largest amount of attention both on the Democrat
34:50and the Republican side on the Republican side there are three different candidates and President
34:58Trump has come out and said I like all three uh which was I thought
35:05a great Trump question he was asked if he was going to endorse and Trump
35:10said no I'm not going to endorse basically I like all three um and all
35:15three are Ken Paxton uh John Cornyn the current senator and uh and Wesley uh
35:23Wesley uh whose name is immediately escaping me because I tried to name all three
35:29of them off the top of my head he's been on the show a great
35:32number of times he is fantastic and Wesley Hunt my apologies to Wesley Hunt trying
35:39to name three right off the top of my head uh all three of them
35:42are seriously uh contending and whoever wins that Republican primary will likely be the next
35:50Republican senator from Texas or the continuing Republican senator uh from Texas so Wesley Hunt
35:57John Cornyn and also Ken Paxton all running on the Republican side now on the
36:04Democrat side this has turned into a bit of a story today Buck uh Democrat
36:10Senate candidates Jasmine Crockett who has given up her congressional seat and instead now running
36:16to be the senator from Texas and James Tallarico I believe that's how you pronounce
36:21his last name um is that correct Buck so far as you can tell and
36:26he went on Stephen Colbert show and CBS decided they would not air the interview
36:33because they were worried about conflicting with the equal time doctrine um and the equal
36:40time doctrine basically as interpreted by our friend Brendan Carr the FCC chairman who was
36:46on recently he has said what I think is 100 % true which is if
36:51you're gonna have these late night talk shows you can't fit into the exemption of
36:57uh of news programming if you're only having one side on all the time there
37:03are no right -leaning guests on for instance Stephen Colbert show and Stephen Colbert would
37:09never have the Republican nominee on his show and so as a result CBS said
37:15we're worried about violating the equal time doctrine we're not going to run this uh
37:20this interview that was a decision that was made by CBS corporate well Stephen Colbert
37:26whose show has been canceled I believe it is scheduled to end in May uh
37:31went on and teed off and uh and I believe this aired on his actual
37:37CBS program him ripping his bosses at CBS cut 26 you know who is not
37:43one of my guests tonight that's Texas State Representative James Tallarico he he was supposed
37:50to be here but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers
37:54who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast then then
38:00I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him
38:04on I could not mention me not having him on and because my network clearly
38:11doesn't want us to talk about this let's talk about this on january 21st of
38:16this year a letter was released by fcc chairman and smug bowling pin brendan carr
38:22in this letter car said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows
38:27because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes well sir you're chairman
38:34of the fcc so fccu okay um this is i i think actually more interesting
38:43than stephen colbert is letting on and it's actually super interesting in general so he
38:50was only going to have james tallarico on now james tallarico is on a and
38:55in a highly competitive senate race against jasmine crockett buck jasmine crockett has a zero
39:02percent chance of being elected statewide from texas i want to repeat this i think
39:09even democrats are aware of this if jasmine crockett is the nominee there is a
39:14zero percent chance that republicans have to worry about the democrat in that race at
39:19all i think elite democrat uh leadership is aware of that so when i hear
39:25and see this controversy emerging i say my goodness this is elite democrat power brokers
39:33deciding to set up this james tallarico interview if it airs it's a huge uh
39:40bonus to him but if it gets shut down under this fcc equal time doctrine
39:47i would argue it's an even bigger bonus for him because most people would have
39:52never seen this but for the fact that stephen colbert went on and attacked his
39:57bosses for not letting him have on james tallarico so i think again the fact
40:02that this was scheduled to happen the day before the texas primary ballots went out
40:08and people started to vote this feels to me a bit akin to what happened
40:12to bernie sanders back in the day this is the democrat party saying we got
40:17a kneecap uh jasmine crockett and make sure she's not the nominee because maybe we
40:24can put this seat in play with james tallarico do you see that and by
40:28the way brendan carr let's invite him on the program again because he got attacked
40:32uh and we want to give him equal time on the program we had him
40:36on recently do you read this in a similar way buck or what stands out
40:41to you about this story again there's no way the republican nominee whether it's wesley
40:46hunt whether it is uh ken paxton or uh john cornyn is going to be
40:52allowed on colbert and this is where the significance of that letter from commissioner carr
40:57comes into play i sorry sorry um just realized for a second i had a
41:08dog wander into my room and i had to hit the mic off first this
41:12is what happens in live radio i have a baby and a dog and sometimes
41:15i roll into the room and it throws me off i'm not pulling an aoc
41:18here by the way i do have an answer for clay but i was i
41:21was talking into a dead microphone for a second uh i would say this um
41:25on on the fcc issue this is this is going to take a lot of
41:29time for it to settle because clay there has been no equal time in fact
41:34we have had democrat dominance of the media under the guise of it being journalism
41:39under the guise of it being neutral for our entire lives this is just finally
41:43now faded away or rather is fading away where people at least know cnn is
41:50a democrat organ new york times is a democrat organ there's no ifs ands or
41:54buts there's no we call it like we see it or whatever and so how
41:58do you handle that in a regulatory environment and increasingly uh you know i i
42:05think we have to get it now the fcc chairman may disagree with this i
42:09just think this notion that we're going to have these regulations and all of this
42:13uh infringements on i think it's all infringements on the first amendment quite honestly i
42:17think that uh remember the obama administration claimed that it could block this was the
42:23solicitor general under the obama administration that it could block the publication of a book
42:29in advance of the election under certain circumstances because of the regulations around speech and
42:37elections and dark money and politics and all this stuff so that's where this stuff
42:41always goes it goes to one side trying to leverage this for censorship and the
42:47and i think our side trying to play fair more often and then and ending
42:52up just being on the losing end of the situation so uh i i don't
42:57know that there's going to be remember this would all take a lot of time
43:00right there's there's one thing for people to know clay but then it also has
43:03to make its way through the courts and places will fight this and they'll say
43:07how do you even make this distinction and you might get some bad judges and
43:10you know the supreme court so this will take a while to sort out is
43:13is my answer but it is really important that everyone knows the democrats have had
43:19a massive advantage in the establishment media landscape for our for certainly for our entire
43:25lives i would say long before that yes rush was the unsinkable aircraft carrier free
43:31speech yes there have been others who have been massive voices and there's one cable
43:36channel that does quite well uh that is conservative, or Republican, whatever.
43:43The truth is, we're just beginning to address this disparity, Clay.
43:47I mean, the fact that there are even laws, think about this, that there are
43:50laws that they've treated, or rather they're regulations, and they have treated some of these
43:54shows like they're neutral news programs.
43:58Does anyone really believe that?
44:01I just look at this and say, I can't get over the fact that this
44:06happened the day before voting was about to start.
44:09It is a huge gift to Tallarico, and it feels to me like the Democrat
44:14Party has convinced itself that, accurately, in my opinion, Jasmine Crockett has no chance to
44:20win, and they're putting their finger down on the scales in favor of Tallarico.
44:26And, by the way, on the Republican side, this is going to be a Donnybrook.
44:29There are three big -time, serious contenders spending big money.
44:35Current Senator John Cornyn, and we've had all these guys on the program.
44:40Ken Paxton, who is the current Attorney General, and Wesley Hunt, who is a current
44:46congressman that is running to try to be the next senator from Texas.
44:51All of them have run very viable campaigns, but, man, all three of them would
44:58crush Jasmine Crockett, and significantly would not need to raise any of the money that
45:06would otherwise be spent for other states.
45:09I think Democrats believe. I think they're wrong that he can win, but I think
45:13James Tallarico, they think, would at least have a puncher's chance, whereas Jasmine Crockett has
45:18no chance. And, again, Brendan Carr is right on this.
45:21Brendan Carr is 100 % right on this.
45:24You can't have late -night talk shows that are claiming that they're just comedy shows
45:29and only allow Democrats on as guests to basically make their political arguments on the
45:36show. And that's what they do.
45:38This is what the Jon Stewart era of The Daily Show was so aggravating for
45:45a lot of us. Because, yeah, I mean, a lot of this stuff is clever
45:47and funny, but it was really a propaganda show.
45:49The whole point of it was to push Democrat themes through the prism of comedy,
45:54but because it was comedy, and, look, I mean, Trump is very funny.
45:59Trump's a politician, right? Comedy and politics are not in any way distinct, or rather,
46:05you know, separate from each other by their nature.
46:07They actually can be quite useful when paired together.
46:10I think one of Trump's biggest political gifts is how funny he is.
46:14And I think it completely, there are a lot of people who, you know, they
46:18don't like this about his style, or they think he's kind of gross, but, man,
46:21he said something. And if you find yourself laughing at what a politician says, like,
46:25really kind of guffawing, it's hard to hate the guy.
46:28You know, it opens you up a little bit to it, and I think you
46:30warm up to him over time.
46:32Trump is the funniest politician of our lifetime, which is remarkable.
46:35Clay, the sitting president of the United States is the most humorous politician you or
46:40I have ever come across.
46:42He is the funniest. Yes.
46:43Just a fact, right? It's pretty crazy when you say it out loud.
46:47But the Daily Show, because it was comedy, they would have politicians, or they would
46:52have more serious people on, and then they would cut and splice the interview so
46:55that it was a complete hit job.
46:57I mean, they would do whatever they wanted, and then if you point it out,
47:00they'd go, we have puppets on before us.
47:02It's just comedy, man. No, it's a political show with jokes.
47:06I mean, totally. And so this idea, it feels like a rig job, like that
47:13he was daring, that is Colbert, was daring his bosses to not allow Tallarico on.
47:19I would argue that, look, I'm no defender of Jasmine Crockett, but I would argue
47:24if they're going to have on Tallarico the day before the primary, that they should
47:29also have to have on Jasmine Crockett, not only the other Republican candidate, whomever that
47:35ends up being, but the other Democrat as well.
47:39That feels like a fair and impartial way to handle this.
47:43So I'd be upset if I was Jasmine Crockett.
47:47Indeed, indeed. And not to be confused with any affiliation with Crockett coffee, of course.
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49:43T's and C's apply. Welcome back in to Clay and Buck.
49:47And I just want to say thank you so much to all of you who
49:49are sending in kind words about the book, which I have out today, Manufacturing Delusion.
49:56It is very timely. There's a lot of history.
49:58There's a lot of research.
49:59There's some anecdotes from my time in the CIA.
50:01Just a few. It's not about that, but I threw some things in there.
50:05The CIA cleared them. I had to clear the entire book and I did.
50:11So that is really my focus today is getting as many as possible to get
50:17a copy of the book.
50:18You can obviously get it on Amazon.
50:19There's the audio book, which I read myself.
50:22And I think you'll, those of you who like audio books, there you go.
50:26It'll be my voice doing the whole book for you.
50:28And so far we're doing really well.
50:31There is this book out from John Meacham today.
50:33He's trying to rain on my parade, but because of you, I don't think that's
50:38going to happen. But let's not let that smug communist who hates Trump and says
50:42it is inexcusable for you to have voted for him again.
50:45Said that on TV last year.
50:47Let's not let him get that number one slot for book sales today.
50:51It's all on you. I'm doing some other great shows and I really appreciate that.
50:55And it's funny, Clay, you really do in this business.
50:58You find out who your friends are at book launch time.
51:01It's a very interesting thing.
51:04There are a lot of people that are like, Oh yeah, I love your stuff.
51:06Oh yeah, buddy, whatever. But there are the people who say, send it to my
51:11producer and we'll give it some thought.
51:13And the people who are like, that's awesome for you, buddy.
51:17When do you want to come on?
51:18And I will tell you this, and I think you're the same way, Clay.
51:21We remember who's on what side of that equation, just like any of you would.
51:26Trust me. It's interesting. You see who's you see who's for real and who is
51:32who belongs in the cheap seats.
51:34Well, look, this audience to its credit buys books in a substantial way.
51:38So you probably have noticed over the five years that we've been doing the show
51:42since. And again, we began the show talking about this, but they is the five
51:47year anniversary of rush passing.
51:49And we have a special one hour show that is up and producer Allie said
51:55a super nice thing. She said, like both you and Buck are the kind of
52:00sons that rush would have had if he had had kids, which is a super
52:04complimentary, nice thing to say from producer Allie and much of the staff that spent
52:09years and years working with rush.
52:11Yeah. It's a very nice thing to say.
52:13Um, but that's a credit to rush in the show and the fact that people
52:16are intellectually curious, but you may well have noticed that we have a lot of
52:20authors on because it is hard to sell books and ideas matter and making strong
52:25arguments matters. Um, and so I think we have something of a, a, an obligation
52:34with a platform this big for, to have people who are writing good.
52:39We need good books to be written about what we believe and about what matters
52:45to us. Those of us who see the world, the way that we do.
52:49And we, we have a role to play in that, you know, it's, it's, and
52:53some other places are abandoning that role unless you're in a very narrow subset.
52:57And that's a shame, but this platform and many others like it.
53:00Um, and I will say many of the independent, big conservative names, uh, are, are
53:05having me on. They've had you on the past clay and they also, um, take
53:09that approach. Uh, so, you know, we can't have every book on, or this would
53:12be a, this would be just like a, this show would just be like a
53:15book club because everybody, I, I feel badly.
53:18I mean, I get, I, you get the same thing.
53:20I get literal boxes of books pile up at my, I don't know how they
53:25find, I guess the publishers know where I live.
53:26They find my home, they send it to my home address and I refuse to
53:31ever throw a book in the trash, no matter whose book it is.
53:33So I have to find a home for this.
53:34I'll donate it to the library.
53:36I'll, I'll give it away to friends who want that particular author, et cetera.
53:40But I feel like I'm the custodian of all these books that I've ever asked
53:43for. I don't have enough room.
53:44I mean, you've, you've been to me here, Clay.
53:46I don't have enough bookshelves for the books that I already have.
53:49And I, you know, I keep accruing more.
53:51Uh, we got a couple of funny emails, by the way, I should, uh, should
53:54hit a VIP email from Matt.
53:57Hey, Clay and Buck, just listening to you talk about the low IQ Democrats likely
54:01running for president in 28 AOC Newsome, um, and, uh, and, uh, and others, uh,
54:08potentially including, uh, certainly Kamala Harris.
54:11What are your thoughts about Mark Kelly?
54:13Is he a smart guy?
54:14Is he running in 28?
54:16I think both Arizona senators will give it a shot.
54:19Um, I would expect that he would run.
54:21Uh, I don't, I've not spent any time around him.
54:23I do know people who say that he is a smart guy and they like
54:26him who I respect. Uh, but I don't know anything at all about him.
54:30So I wouldn't denigrate him by saying that he's unintelligent.
54:33Certainly if you. One election in one of the seven toss up states, I mean,
54:37Gretchen Whitmer is going to run.
54:39Josh Shapiro is going to run.
54:41That is a pretty strong argument that you would have some national appeal because you're
54:47already having to appeal to independence.
54:51Remember, Trump won. What did Trump win?
54:53Arizona by like six points, I think, in 2026.
54:56I think of the toss up states, the seven that we talked about a lot
55:00in 2024, Arizona was basically the biggest win that anybody got.
55:07I mean, Trump ran away with that.
55:09And so they're now trying to run in states that may be slanted towards the
55:14red. So I would be curious to see how he would do another email, by
55:17the way, from Bert. I've noticed you guys use the phrase back in the day
55:20quite often. What exactly does it mean?
55:23I'm 93, and I'm sure it does not mean the same to me as it
55:27does to you, you young whippersnappers.
55:30Well, thanks for the email.
55:32Yeah, back in the day for you could mean back in World War II, which
55:36is truly back in the day.
55:38But for Buck and I, I would say back in the day means 80s, 90s,
55:43which is like recent history for you if you're 93.
55:48Yes, I think that is definitely the case.
55:51And I guess we do use the term back in the day sometimes.
55:54Yeah, when I think back in the day, it's like the Spice Girls and the
56:01rise of hip hop and like the movie Clueless, Michael Jordan's supremacy in the NBA.
56:06Like that's back in the day for me.
56:08So that's not that far back.
56:10Our bird is astute. Bird is correct.
56:13We have a different timeline that we are working with.
56:17We should also mention as we are getting ready, we're talking all about the Texas
56:22primary season. You guys are going to decide a lot.
56:26If you look at the prediction markets right now, Democrats are favored to take back
56:32the House and Republicans are only about 60 percent to maintain control of the Senate.
56:38Look, the House is probably going to impeach Trump if they get taken back.
56:41I understand you guys can predict exactly what they will do.
56:44What I will say is the Senate.
56:47I mean, you guys know how hugely important the Senate can be for the last
56:51two years, particularly as it pertains to the Supreme Court, because we've got a lot
56:56of justices who are over 70 years old now.
56:59And as we saw happen with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you never know, or Scalia for
57:06that matter, you never know when that moment is going to come as soon as
57:10you are over the age of 70.
57:13And in particular, the risks just increase.
57:17And so I would say, look, we're still, you know, 10 months away, eight months
57:22away, nine months away from official verdicts coming down.
57:25But I do think that the Senate, as much attention as we should put on
57:29the House, the Senate is by far the most significant of the of the impacts
57:35that could happen in 2026.
57:38If Republicans lose control of the Senate, you lose the ability to get a lot
57:43done that has to do with the judiciary in a way that I don't know
57:46very many people have thought about.
57:47So I would even say some of the older right leaning Supreme Court justices, maybe
57:58it's time to start thinking about that a little bit.
58:00I mean, I just in the same way, look, Kennedy, I thought was really smart
58:04the way he stepped down.
58:06He got someone who was a former clerk appointed to take his take his role.
58:10If you compare that with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the stakes can become quite significant.
58:15A lot of people looked back at Ruth Bader Ginsburg and said she should have
58:18stepped down when Obama could have named her replacement.
58:21To your point, Buck, we've talked about this.
58:22They bragged about what incredible physical condition she was in.
58:26They did stories on her workouts.
58:28And then she passed. Bizarre.
58:30Yeah, there was a cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as fitness influencer.
58:36And they would show these little.
58:38Did you actually see this, Clay, when they were doing this?
58:40Oh, yeah, I watched it.
58:40Yeah, yeah. You would look on like the main page of the Huffington Post, which
58:45at one point was a big lib website.
58:46It doesn't even exist anymore.
58:47I don't know. And they'd show video of like Ruth Bader Ginsburg with half pound
58:51weights, like barely raised them for her head.
58:53Like, yeah, get after it, Ruth.
58:56Like, look at her beast mode.
58:58It was like a delusion.
59:00A manufactured delusion. The title of a fantastic book that is out today that all
59:04of you should go get a copy of.
59:05I'm going to be relentless.
59:08Usually I get to rely on Clay to sell everything for us, which is great,
59:11or to promote everything for us, which is great.
59:14Today I have to promote.
59:15Damn it. Tomorrow you've got the whole show for yourself.
59:18I can't even imagine how many promotions you're going to be able to get in.
59:21Oh, I totally forgot about that.
59:22I'm at Mar -a -Lago for the day at an event.
59:25You're going to wear your top hat and monocle, Clay?
59:28Oh, well, you know, what's funny is I've been running around right now trying to
59:33make sure about what clothes I've got packed.
59:35I just need a personal person who just lays out everything that I'm supposed to
59:39wear because I have no idea what to wear to any event.
59:42I'm only going to be gone one day, but right now I was out of
59:48breath. Can I tell you something?
59:50You can AI. This is another thing where AI is really – I guess I'm
59:55going to admit something now on the show.
59:57I've taken a photo before because I was curious.
1:00:01about whether something fit, like a suit, whether a suit still fit me enough, and
1:00:06I really wanted an objective.
1:00:07AI, if you use it, like you can go and grok, take a photo, or
1:00:11have someone take a photo of you and be like, does this suit fit the
1:00:15way that a men's, like, custom or tailored suit should fit?
1:00:19Clay, it will break it down to the, I mean, it's like all of a
1:00:23sudden you have a guy named, like, Vincenzo, who's like, hey, it's a little tight
1:00:26in the chest, a little loose in the, you know, does the whole thing for
1:00:29you. There's a little bit of weight on AI over Christmas break.
1:00:32I don't need to get a little too snug.
1:00:35It's like it's pulling, and it's pulling because your gut is pulling.
1:00:38I'm like, hey, AI, slow down a little bit.
1:00:41But I'm just saying it actually works very well.
1:00:44Like, you can ask it.
1:00:45You can even ask it for outfit advice, guys.
1:00:48Once you realize what a tool AI is for you, it is pretty incredible.
1:00:53I used Grok seven different times this morning getting ready just to answer different questions.
1:01:02I don't think I mentioned this yesterday.
1:01:04Valentine's Day dinner, as I was getting ready to go out, wife hit me with,
1:01:10is that what you're wearing?
1:01:13Not a good start to, yeah.
1:01:15The devastating off -the -top rope wife.
1:01:17Is that what you're wearing?
1:01:18I was in Florida over the weekend, and I did not have a pair of
1:01:22pants. I did have shorts.
1:01:24And so other than my track pants, which are awesome from XXXY, great brand, but
1:01:32not very fancy. And so my wife was not happy with the options that I
1:01:38had. And is that what you're wearing was the first thing I heard when I
1:01:43came out wearing what I thought was a great outfit to Valentine's Day dinner.
1:01:48Following the 9 -11, by the way, you haven't noticed this yet, Buck, but Super
1:01:54Bowl next year is on Valentine's Day.
1:01:57Super Bowl 61 is Valentine's Day.
1:02:01It's going to be the biggest breakup day in the history of mankind, because a
1:02:05lot of women are going to find out that their boyfriends care way more about
1:02:09football than they do celebrating that relationship.
1:02:12Following, and probably some men, but a lot more women.
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