Hour 2 - Clay to Erika Kirk Haters: JUST SHUT UP
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0:05Hour number two. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:09Reaction to the third assassination attempt of President Trump in the first hour.
0:14We will get to some of your calls as well.
0:16You can load them up.
0:17800 -282 -2882. But right now, Caroline Leavitt has just stepped to the podium and
0:23the White House press briefing room.
0:25And we are going to go join her live as information about the shooting is
0:29shared. We are going on Saturday ahead of addressing you here in the briefing room.
0:34President Trump was intent on speaking to this brave agent to ensure he was okay.
0:39And the agent assured the president that he was.
0:42As you know, I was seated next to President Trump and the first lady when
0:46the shots were fired before Secret Service swiftly moved us to safety backstage.
0:50The president's calm in the face of chaos while yet another individual was trying to
0:56take his life was really remarkable to witness.
0:59And it's something I will never forget.
1:01President Trump is fearless because he loves this country.
1:05And he is willing to put his own life on the line to deliver on
1:09the promises that he made to the American public who elected him here into the
1:13highest office in the land.
1:15And while we are blessed to have a fearless president, we should not live in
1:19a country where such constant fear of political violence permeates our society every single day.
1:26We can and we should have fierce disagreement in this country.
1:30As you all know, we disagree often, myself in this role and all of you
1:34in the news media. But those disagreements must remain peaceful.
1:39Debating, peaceful protesting and voting are how we need to settle disagreements, not bullets.
1:45Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump.
1:50This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators,
1:57yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party and even some in the media.
2:02This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after
2:09day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this
2:14dark moment. Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as
2:21a threat to democracy and compare him to Hitler to score political points are fueling
2:26this kind of violence. The left wing cult of hatred against the president and all
2:31of those who support him and work for him has gotten multiple people hurt and
2:36killed. And it almost did so again this weekend.
2:40When you read the manifesto of this shooter, ask yourselves, how different is the rhetoric
2:45from this almost assassin than what you read on social media and hear in various
2:51forums every single day? The answer, if you're being honest with yourself, is that there
2:56is no difference at all.
2:58Much of the manifesto of the would -be assassin is indistinguishable from the words that
3:03we hear daily from so many.
3:05For example, as the First Lady of the United States pointed out this morning, just
3:10two days prior to the shooting, ABC's late -night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called First
3:15Lady Melania Trump an expectant widow.
3:18Who in their right minds says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder
3:22of her beloved husband? And having experienced what I did with the First Lady on
3:27Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that.
3:30This kind of rhetoric about the President, the First Lady, and his supporters is completely
3:35deranged, and it's unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after
3:40night. As President Trump said on Saturday night at this podium, we as Americans must
3:46recommit ourselves to resolving our differences peacefully and uniting around the shared values that make
3:51our country great. The deranged lies and smears against the President, his family, his supporters,
3:57have led crazy people to believe crazy things, and they are inspired to commit violence
4:03because of those words. It has to stop.
4:07And one more point. Saturday night served as yet another reminder of how important it
4:12is to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
4:14It is shameful that the United States Congress has kept this vital agency defunded for
4:2073 days, the longest shutdown of a federal agency in U .S.
4:26history. The Secret Service is a vital component of DHS.
4:29It has been directly impacted by this reckless political gamesmanship.
4:34Everyone in this room who was there on Saturday night witnessed the heroes of Secret
4:39Service and federal law enforcement jump into action in the face of grave danger and
4:43uncertainty. Agents put their own lives in harm's way to protect the President, the First
4:49Lady, the Vice President, and members of the Cabinet.
4:52One agent can be seen in video footage literally jumping onto the stage, not knowing
4:58where the attacker was or where the bullets were coming from at that point, to
5:02place his body in front of the President of the United States.
5:05These men and women are heroes.
5:07They perform their duties daily.
5:09And they have children and families, too.
5:11And they do it despite the political turmoil surrounding their agency.
5:15Make no mistake. This defunding of DHS should be a national scandal.
5:21If Republicans defunded DHS and we saw in another attempt.
5:24assassination on a democrat president i would hope that the media coverage would be relentless
5:30and unforgiving and i hope that it continues to be now with the world cup
5:34america 250 the 2028 olympics and a presidential election all ahead the democrats obstruction is
5:41placing an enormous and totally pointless burden on the secret service that can get more
5:46people killed enough is enough there should be no further debate about this democrats need
5:52to do what president trump has been calling on them to do for 73 days
5:56in a row and fund the department of homeland security period this is a national
6:02emergency and every member of congress needs to put their country over party and get
6:07the department of homeland security funded with that i will take a few of your
6:11questions today daniel thank you for being here why don't you kick us off thank
6:14you caroline the president saturday after the assassination attempt came here he emphasized that law
6:20enforcement took their job keeping everyone safe for dinner house speaker mike johnson came out
6:25and said he believes the president needs greater protection what is the white house's message
6:29to the millions of americans who wake up here today nervous uneasy about the safety
6:34of the president at events like this and safety of the cabinet members well we
6:38certainly understand their fears and their worries as you heard from the president himself he
6:44continues to have trust in the united states secret service as i just said these
6:49are great men and women who are doing their jobs and performing their honor their
6:53their duties honorably as we all witnessed on saturday evening within minutes the president the
6:59first lady the vice president members of the president's cabinet were ushered out of the
7:03room the perpetrator who sought to inflict massive harm as we all now know with
7:08the release of the manifesto on administration officials and the president himself was stopped at
7:15the security parameter that was set up he tried to charge through it as you
7:18saw on video and he was quickly neutralized by secret service and thank god that
7:22he was with that said obviously the white house is always asking the tough questions
7:27and ensuring the safety of the president i understand there will be a meeting early
7:31this week convened by the white house chief of staff susie wiles with top dhs
7:36leadership members of the united state secret service and our own operations team here to
7:40ensure the safety and the security of the president as we do have many of
7:44these major events moving forward so we're always monitoring operations and procedures always asking the
7:50tough questions to ensure the president is safe and the american people should be assured
7:54there's no higher priority for the president and his staff than the president's safety right
7:58and you said that you thought that that gaggle out of the sticks would be
8:02your last one before your baby back in 2024 when the president had the attempt
8:06on his life in butler you cut your paternity leave short back then you're obviously
8:11back here today after saturday can you just elaborate a little bit why you felt
8:15it was important to be here to bring to media and talk to the american
8:18people for the stand sure um it's sort of crazy timing when you put it
8:23that way for both children with two assassination attempts against the president i'm honored to
8:28work in this job i view this job as the president's spokesperson and the white
8:32house spokeswoman as public service it's not just any job i'm honored to do it
8:37and i'm honored to work and speak on behalf of president trump who has faced
8:41unprecedented adversity and challenges and i'm honored to work for him and again as i
8:47witnessed on saturday night just his dogged resolve and determination to get back onto the
8:53stage and and he was pushing uh secret service and law enforcement to allow him
8:57to address and that that really i think hopefully gives the country um the type
9:02of strength that we need and i certainly know as his spokeswoman and i can
9:06speak on behalf of all of the staff here at the white house the president
9:09inspires all of us to just keep going and keep fighting every day thanks daniel
9:13and congrats to you on your new baby he's beautiful aisha just in the rhetoric
9:18you mentioned the first lady and jimmy kimmel jimmy kimmel's comments were mrs trump you
9:23have a glow like an expectant widow and he said this days before the shooting
9:28but there does seem to be a normalization of rhetoric about assassinating this particular president
9:37how can this administration try to put an end to this well i think you
9:43heard it directly from the president on saturday night aisha that in his words we
9:47need to recommit ourselves as a country to toning down the rhetoric and to unifying
9:54around what makes our country great that's true of everyone who works in this white
9:58house but as i said it's also true of everyone who has a voice and
10:03a platform across this country whether you're on television a podcast host uh you know
10:08people listen and when you have mentally disturbed individuals across the country who are listening
10:14to this crazed rhetoric about the president day after day it inspires them to do
10:20crazy things and unfortunately it's not just the media it is the entire democrat party
10:26has made their pitch to voters across the country that donald trump poses an existential
10:32threat to democracy that he is a fascist and that they compare him to hitler
10:36i mean these are despicable statements that the american people have been consuming for years
10:40and so many mentally perturbed individuals are led to believe these words are truth and
10:46then are inspired to act on it i have a whole host of examples that
10:50we can share with you after it is paid pages and pages of major Democrat
10:54Party elected officials saying, such as Rep.
10:58Hakeem Jeffries, just this April, this month, said, we are in an era of maximum
11:03warfare everywhere all the time.
11:05Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration.
11:10Senator Alex Padilla said people are, quote, dying because of fear and terror caused by
11:15the Trump administration. Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Trump is making the country look like a,
11:20quote, fascist state. Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook.
11:26Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarianism
11:32on steroids. Governor J .B., I could go on and on.
11:36But again, when you have people in positions of power that are saying things like
11:40this every single day for years.
11:42OK, let's go ahead and pull out.
11:43We'll see if we get any more info from Caroline Levitt.
11:48But I should mention that the Department of Justice has, I believe, a 3 p
11:53.m. Eastern scheduled press conference that they are planning on announcing more details of the
12:00charges. So that may be where we get more of the details about this alleged
12:05assassination attempt. And we are going to continue to run on this and see if
12:10there is any other news.
12:12We'll continue to follow that slide from the White House right now, Caroline Levitt.
12:18And unfortunately, a lot of you out there are dealing with some serious weather.
12:23I saw where the St.
12:25Louis area is expected to be the absolute center of all this.
12:30But there's a lot of nervousness down here in Nashville.
12:34Huge 80 mile an hour winds potentially.
12:36Tornadoes spinning off. It is the anniversary, I think, the 15th anniversary of the awful
12:44tornado that killed so many people in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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13:51All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
13:53We just there carried live the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Leavitt, talking about, well,
13:59the shooting, well, the attempted assassination and the whole situation around it.
14:07And she did speak in some detail about how the rhetoric about Trump is out
14:12of control. It really is.
14:15You know, I don't know that there are worse things you can say about a
14:19person than traitor, rapist, pedophile.
14:25I think that that is the, I think that would be kind of the big
14:30three of awfulness. I don't know that there is something that would be more evil
14:35than to be those three things.
14:37The media says this about President Trump.
14:40In each case, it is a lie.
14:43An obvious lie. And yet they push this delusion because it's a way to channel
14:52the rage, the frustration of the malcontents who comprise the Democrat base.
14:57They just can't accept that Trump's actually doing a very good job as president.
15:00The country's actually doing quite well.
15:02Well, Nora O'Donnell, who is one of the hack propagandists over at CBS, read to
15:12Trump's face in the 60 Minutes interview what the manifesto of this lunatic loser says
15:19about him. And I want you to hear how Trump deals with her.
15:22Then we'll talk about this.
15:23Play 19. He also wrote this.
15:25I'm no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands
15:30with his crimes. What's your reaction to that?
15:33Well, I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would because
15:35you're horrible people. Horrible people.
15:39Yeah, he did write that.
15:40I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody.
15:44I'm not a pedophile. Oh, you think he was referring to you?
15:46Excuse me. I'm not a pedophile.
15:49You read that crap from some sick person.
15:52I got associated with stuff that has nothing to do with me.
15:56I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the
16:02ones that were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things.
16:07But I said to myself, you know, I'll do this interview and they'll probably I
16:12read the manifesto. You know, it's a sick person.
16:14But you should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those
16:19things. You know, it's a sick person.
16:20And I was never, excuse me, excuse me, you shouldn't be reading that on 60
16:25Minutes. You're a disgrace, but go ahead, let's finish the interview.
16:28The other thing that he wrote in the end.
16:31And can I just say, Clay, the contempt that he shows to her isn't just
16:35warranted. It's necessary. It's necessary.
16:38When you're having someone say that stuff to you in that way, I know she's
16:42saying it's his words. This is like when the media plays the game of a
16:45lot of people are saying, sir, that you're a wife beater.
16:47It's like, no, you're actually trying to say that now.
16:50How about the just, I'm trying to think of the words that I can use
16:55on the radio that don't get us FCC violations.
16:58How about the sheer unctuous nature of her?
17:02Oh, you think he was talking about you when he split?
17:07I mean, yes, of course.
17:09Of course he was. Did you see all the posts?
17:12I just, I think the reason president.
17:16It was super passive aggressive, her whole thing of reading the quote, being like, I
17:18don't think he's talking about you.
17:20Oh, you think he's talking about you?
17:23I just, so many of these media are worthless.
17:27And I get why President Trump is sitting with 60 minutes because I think they
17:31have made a concerted effort at CBS News to try to be more down the
17:36middle. And with that having been said, I just think that they got to fire
17:44a lot more people, honestly.
17:46And a lot of them are worthless and not particularly talented, too.
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18:53Welcome back in. We're going to get to this probably in the third hour.
18:58We're Donald Trump calling for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired in the wake of a
19:03joke he made. We'll see how this gets covered, and we'll talk about it at
19:07the top of the third hour.
19:08But in the wake of Caroline Levitt's press conference, I want to come back to
19:11some of the things that we were just talking about.
19:14We don't know how many gunshots were fired.
19:16We do know that this guy was somehow not hit.
19:20And the video of him running through the barricade stops before he's actually captured.
19:27And so what actually happened there, and I do think is going to turn into
19:34a big story. So put a bow on that for a moment and say, hey,
19:39we're going to find out more about this, I believe, at three.
19:42But, Buck, I want to come back to this guy's motivations.
19:45And I think this is a huge part of the story that we have to
19:50have acknowledged by many legacy media.
19:53And I know many of you people, you guys out there, are in agreement with
19:58us about this. But I just want to give you some background.
20:02This guy was 31 years old, Caltech grad.
20:06He had just gotten his master's.
20:08Caltech is one of the best educational schools to the MIT, effectively, of the West
20:16Coast. He came from a two -parent household.
20:20There are four kids, it appears, based on the photos that I've seen.
20:23He has brothers and sisters.
20:25He lived in the suburbs of L .A.
20:28He's just a normal Democrat.
20:31And if a guy like this, we're not talking about somebody who is crazily mentally
20:38ill, although he may have issues.
20:41He was behaving in a way that he believed was logical, rational, and reasonable if
20:49he believes, as he does, that Trump is Hitler.
20:53You cannot consistently say for 11 years, Trump is a dictator, Trump is a fascist,
21:00Trump is Adolf Hitler. And then when somebody acts on that, as I believe occurred
21:05at Butler, as I believe occurred in West Palm Beach, and now as I believe
21:11has occurred in Washington, D .C., there are hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people
21:18that believe this to be true and believe that it is justified of violence and
21:24think that they're the hero in this story.
21:27And if you're out there and you're saying, hey, this is crazy, if Trump were
21:32truly Hitler, how heroic would it have been in World War II if someone had
21:38been able to kill Hitler?
21:40Buck, we've talked about this before, unfortunately, this is why before all the assassination started,
21:45there was the would -you -kill -baby -Hitler moral decision.
21:47debate that people would get into all the time.
21:50Usually you don't kill babies.
21:51If you knew baby Hitler, what's the correct way to respond?
21:55This guy has been convinced by Democrat talking points that Trump is Hitler, an authoritarian
22:02dictator, and he believes he is called heroically to kill Trump and any other members
22:08of his administration as a result.
22:10I think you have to get in the mind of these people, and you wrote
22:13an entire book about it, but they have convinced people who are otherwise, I think,
22:19not insane that they have to take up arms in order to keep this president
22:25from being able to remain in power.
22:28So thank you for the shout out for the book, Clay, Manufacturing Delusion.
22:31The title gets right to exactly what we are seeing here.
22:35The Democrat Party doesn't just embrace, but manufactures these absurd beliefs, keeps them going, perpetuates
22:44them, preys upon people that have emotional and mental instability with a fire hose of
22:50falsehood, uses the isolation that they feel to engage in menticide, to break them down,
22:56and then go through a brainwashing or thought reform process to rebuild them as individuals
23:01who believe this nonsense as part of their identity construction.
23:06If you want to know all of that stuff, how all of that works, get
23:10Manufacturing Delusion. Get the book.
23:12Everyone who I know who's read it has said, you know, I've even now had,
23:15Clay, some Democrats come up to me.
23:16I had a book party in New York.
23:18They said, you know, look, I don't agree with your politics, but there's some really
23:21interesting stuff in there just about the history and the processes.
23:24And I was like, you know what?
23:25If you're a lib, I'll take it.
23:26At least you learned something, but you will learn something from this book.
23:30And Clay, this is very, we're in a very perilous time.
23:34We're in a dangerous moment here.
23:37There's a book. It's really very academic, which is why it didn't do very well.
23:41Hold on a second, Clay.
23:42Talk for a minute. I'm going to grab it.
23:44The book, I mean, but what Buck is talking about is something that I think
23:48many of you out there see in your social media feeds.
23:51You probably have friends and family in your circles, and you are just genuinely baffled
23:57by the idea that they have bought into this.
24:00It's all intentional. They have shown, they have shown, they have shown, they have shown
24:05for 11 years this argument, and eventually it registers in the brain of enough people.
24:13It's important to realize this guy, read his manifesto.
24:16He thinks he's a hero.
24:18He thinks he is saving America.
24:20Yeah. There's a, it's an academic book called Thou Shalt Kill, Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia.
24:26It's really like an academic thesis that was so interesting it got made into a
24:29book. It's by Anna Geifman.
24:31Princeton University published this. First of all, by Manufacturing Delusion, because that's not out of
24:35print, and you can get that today.
24:37This book, you'd have to go for, this book is like $100.
24:39So none of you, I think, are going to be in a rush to buy
24:41it because it's very expensive.
24:43But I've read it, and I use it as part of the research for my
24:45book, Clay. And what it talks about is something that does not come up enough
24:49in the run -up to the Russian, the Soviet Revolution, is that from, in the
24:56early 1900s and leading up to the Soviet Revolution, 1917, violence was all over the
25:04place, political violence all over pre -revolutionary Russia.
25:08ideologically, the academic Marxist radicals had convinced themselves and others that killing in the name
25:18of their belief was moral and ethical.
25:21This was widespread. There were so many low -level assassinations of police officers, tax collectors,
25:29local bureaucrats, whatever, that there was a constant state of fear and destabilization of the
25:35state leading up to. Now, they don't talk about this part.
25:38They make it seem like, oh, they're just, you know, there was the failure of
25:41the czar, and then people were upset.
25:44One of the reasons people were upset, Clay, one of the reasons why the failure
25:47was so pernicious was because no one felt safe because the radicals were going around
25:51with bombs, with dynamite particularly, and pistols and knives, killing people, kidnapping people, engaging in
25:59bank robberies, which they called expropriations, as in like expropriating from the landowners and the
26:06wealthy class, there was just widespread political violence that led to the biggest calamity in
26:13terms of human life lost and human freedom destroyed of the 20th century, which was
26:16the Soviet Revolution. I bring it up because, Clay, look at how much political violence.
26:21They killed our friend Charlie.
26:23They almost killed Trump. They've tried to kill Trump numerous times.
26:28The forces of the left are unleashed, and there is no real effort.
26:35No prominent person on the left right now is, they can say, I don't agree
26:40with violence, but Clay, will they call out the voices in their midst who play
26:44games with this? Will they say that people that play footsie with violent radical extremism
26:50online and say that they support, well, you know, I didn't see anyone on blue
26:55sky who was shouting down fellow Democrats after Charlie was assassinated, saying, how dare you
27:00take our belief system and use it in this way?
27:04There's a lot of support for this.
27:06Yes. Support is different from action in the same vein, but a lot of Democrats
27:13support violence in the name.
27:14like, you did that. Statistics, by the way, the data shows this.
27:17Let me also take a minute to mention this, and I want to mention it
27:20again in the third hour.
27:22Erica Kirk, did you see this, Buck, was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
27:27She was seated near me.
27:30She was, I think, in the midst of an echo of what happened to Charlie,
27:38as you just mentioned, about seven months ago.
27:41She was crying, and she's on video.
27:43Somebody took a video of her saying she just wants to go home.
27:47If you are listening to us right now, and you or anyone in your family
27:52is saying anything negative about Erica Kirk, you're the bad guy.
27:57Let me just be clear here.
27:59She is a widow with two young kids.
28:02If, for some reason, you have decided you don't like Erica Kirk, that's fine.
28:07Just shut up. Just shut up.
28:11If you feel the need to attack a widow with a couple of young kids
28:16whose husband was brutally murdered less than a year ago, you are the bad guy.
28:22I don't care what race you are.
28:24I don't care what gender you are.
28:26If you are critiquing what a widow wears, if you're critiquing where a widow goes,
28:31you are the bad guy.
28:34And I just, when I saw her, because I saw her there, and when I
28:38saw her clearly having a reverberation and echo, a post -traumatic event, her husband gets
28:47killed, she tries to go out to an event, and somebody comes and tries to
28:52kill someone again, and then I see people online saying, oh, look, and just mocking
28:58her and ridiculing her, and this has been going on for seven months.
29:01You guys are, the people who are doing this, you're awful.
29:04And I don't care. I mean, anybody who is a widow, like, Buck, it's hard
29:09for me to even think of somebody who is more deserving of kindness than someone
29:16who loses their spouse and has to raise two young children regardless of what happened
29:21by themselves. And then to add on that she, in many ways, thinks that she
29:28has to carry the mantle of what her husband advocated for while raising little kids,
29:35I just, I find her treatment to be so particularly abhorrent.
29:40Everything she does, she's getting raked over the coals.
29:44You're a bad person if you're doing that.
29:46I'm sorry. And if you have friends who are doing it, call them out.
29:50Like, this is just, you know, I just find it thoroughly unacceptable and reprehensible, and
29:55I saw it again after she wanted to leave.
30:00She's trying to go on with her life, and people keep getting killed around her.
30:04People keep trying to kill people around her.
30:07It's brutal, man. I just, I can't believe the negative things I see written and
30:12said about her by a lot of people, maybe including some of you who are
30:16listening to us right now, that frankly should just know way better.
30:20Yes, I've been very, very disappointed by some of the narratives on the right that
30:26have emerged, I mean, particularly after the Charlie Kirk assassination.
30:29I have people that send things to me all the time.
30:31Clay, there are all, there's a lot of the, I shouldn't say a lot, there
30:35is a far too loud section of the online right that does not believe the
30:40guy who killed Charlie Kirk killed Charlie Kirk.
30:42Yeah, it's crazy. And then when I, and I've had people engage with me in
30:46my actual life about this.
30:48You know, they'll see me, and they'll want to talk to me about it.
30:50And I look at them and they just start, they just start spewing gibberish.
30:54And they start saying crazy things.
30:57And what's interesting is what has crossed over now, and I'm seeing this, is some
31:01of these voices that, and by the way, when I say they're on the right,
31:04I would actually challenge whether that's even true anymore in some of these cases.
31:07I think there are some people that just, honestly, they're absolutely opportunistic.
31:11They're essentially content mercenaries who will chase clicks and attention at any cost.
31:17Unfortunately, in an internet economy, the more you are clicked on, thought about, talked about,
31:23in many ways, the more valuable you are.
31:26You know, we could be certainly more controversial on this show if we're willing to
31:31just not abide by any principles and lie, and probably get the Daily Mail and
31:36the New York Times and things to write about us on those matters.
31:40But I don't want to go to bed at night being a scumbag, and neither
31:43do you. And unfortunately, not everybody on the right has that same compunction, has that
31:47same desire to maintain some semblance of ethics, honesty, of accuracy, and it's just whatever
31:56is going to get people, because we, unfortunately, there are malcontents on the right as
32:00well. Whatever gets people who are frustrated, resentful, angry, channeling that towards some target so
32:06they don't have to look in the mirror and wonder why their life is not
32:09working out the way they want it to, that's a business model these days.
32:13And unfortunately, it's a very effective business model for some people who claim to be
32:18Trump supporters, who claim they are conservative or they are on the right, and really,
32:23like I said, they're just content mercenaries.
32:26All right, this week, let's get happy for a second.
32:30Mother's Day is wonderful. I saw my mom over the weekend.
32:33I got the best mom.
32:35And, you know, Clay and I love our moms.
32:38We are big fans, just like all of you, of your moms.
32:40And there's moms in your lives.
32:42You want to get them nice gift get them something they're really going to enjoy
32:45yeah get them the flowers of course i'm going to get the flowers but also
32:48cozy earth something soft and luxurious that'll last more than five days how about that
32:52in fact cozy earth has a 10 -year warranty i don't know about a lot
32:56of flowers with 10 -year warranties you know what i'm saying get cozy earth robes
33:00joggers pjs or their oversized throw blankets everything is a winner from them i love
33:06this stuff you know what clay you know what i was wearing at my book
33:09party true story if you guys go on instagram you'll see photo of me with
33:12a bunch of our clay and buck uh podcast hosts i was wearing cozy earth
33:17pants boom with a suit jacket looking slick as all can be but comfortable moving
33:22around feeling that stretch feeling that fabric go with my body i love my cozy
33:27earth stuff the moms in your life they're gonna love it too get a cozy
33:30earth throw blanket for them the robe i feel comfy just talking about it cozy
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33:51get your podcasts we're gonna get into your uh talk backs calls in the next
33:55well in the next couple minutes but also next hour return to the main story
33:59of the day um one thing i just want to point out though clay remember
34:03when we when we were um uh i took a family day friday so i
34:07was with my family in new york so i wasn't in on on that uh
34:10show but we were discussing how i thought they should do a zoom call for
34:15the negotiation in pakistan yes and they shouldn't get on the plane turns out i
34:21don't know if they were listening but trump certainly agreed and there is no trip
34:26to pakistan now for ongoing iran negotiations so my sense that the negotiations would be
34:33fruitless because the demands will not be met currently that is uh well that is
34:39reality because the white house is not sending them were you surprised by this at
34:43all or does it track with what you were seeing i this is ridiculous but
34:47i was actually in the fox news studios when aisha hasney called the president and
34:53he told her hey i'm not sending them because i was about to go on
34:58fox news with aisha hasney and she was getting her makeup done and getting ready
35:02for the show and since she was about to go live she said you know
35:06basically hey i should call president trump and see what he's got to say about
35:10this latest iranian situation no i think it was the right um i think it
35:14was the right call and ultimately i i just come back on if the uranium
35:20can be seized this so -called nuclear dust i think we're just going to have
35:24to get that in order to declare victory because right now the reports are that
35:28iran is saying well we'll open back up the straight of hormuz and we want
35:32to table the nuclear decision and not make a choice on that going forward price
35:37of oil and gas about 95 when i checked it today uh it has to
35:42a large extent stabilized and so i feel like the president doesn't have the pressure
35:47on him that many think that he does and also i was having conversations in
35:52dc this week buck this past weekend a lot of people who would know believe
35:58that iran is in dire straits when it comes to being able to take control
36:04of to store the oil and gas that they produce and they believe this week
36:10they will have to make a decision either we shut down production or we you
36:16know just acknowledge that that we're done in terms of being able to make money
36:20you know what since we all know the top stories here we'll come back we'll
36:23reset clay in a minute but if you guys are on hold because we got
36:26every line lit do you want to rack and stack some calls when we come
36:28back i'd like to get everyone because we haven't really been able to and a
36:31lot of a lot of interesting thoughts and questions here that i can see so
36:34we'll come back reset the table attempted assassination white house correspondence dinner clay was there
36:41uh everyone's okay let's talk about the security side of this the political side of
36:46this and hear from all of you so if you're on hold stay with us