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0:33T's and C's apply. Welcome in, everybody, to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis
0:39and Buck Sexton Show. Starts right now.
0:42A lot of stuff going on up on Capitol Hill.
0:45We're going to be getting into some of that with you for sure.
0:49Given the fact that the Iran war is getting a whole lot of attention for
0:54obvious reasons. is the Tulsi Gabbard testimony before Congress on global threats, touching on things
1:01that we will want to discuss.
1:05So we'll get into that.
1:07We have some of the aftermath of the Joe Kent resignation, speaking of national security,
1:12from director of NCTC. more updates on Iran.
1:17The Save America Act, which we have tried to bring up as often as we
1:22can here because we get a tremendous amount of people saying that we should be
1:31discussing it more. So we go, OK, we'll talk about it.
1:33We'll talk about it. It's very important.
1:35We want election security, too.
1:36It looks like it is on the way to defeat, my friends.
1:39So I guess we'll continue to have this discussion.
1:42But Thune is the majority leader.
1:45People in his state elected him to the Senate to represent the Republican Party.
1:49And they seem to rather the Republicans seem to be on a pathway here to
1:55not passing the Save Act.
1:57So that is where it is.
1:59If that changes, we'll let you know.
2:00But we'll give you some updates on that.
2:02Something that is a little bit of a surprise to me, and perhaps it shouldn't
2:06have been, was how things were going up on Capitol Hill for the Mark Wayne
2:11Mullen confirmation as DHS secretary.
2:15Now, Clay, one thing that I think is quite clear at this point is, given
2:20what just happened at DHS, which was leadership failure at all levels, let's just be
2:26honest about it. It looked buffoonish, unethical, and screwed things up in the way Minneapolis
2:33was handled with messaging. Christine Oam had to go, and Trump told her, time to
2:40go. And now she's on some advisory security committee or something that no one's ever
2:44heard of before. So that was an appropriate move by the Trump administration.
2:49This is maybe the single most important thing.
2:51Again, deportations might be the number one promise of the Trump administration for this second
2:58term. It's happening, but it is not happening at the rate that was promised.
3:03Let's be honest about this.
3:05And there needs to be a whole lot more going on between now and the
3:09midterm election. With all that, I thought that DHS secretary's confirmation would be a pretty
3:16straightforward partisan issue. I knew Democrats were going to push Mark Wayne Mullen on this,
3:20Senator Mullen. I knew that, but things got testy with Senator Rand Paul, who, I
3:26might add, is joining us live on this program in a little bit.
3:30He wants to talk about this.
3:31I'm going to give you some sense of how this went.
3:34Let's start with, so, a little bit of background here.
3:38As you, many of you will recall, perhaps all of you, Rand Paul was assaulted
3:43by a Democrat neighbor and almost beaten to death.
3:48His lungs filled up with fluid.
3:49He was in the hospital.
3:50It was horrible. He got infections.
3:52It's terrible. Rand Paul's an older guy, and he was jumped and kicked and beaten
3:57on the ground by a maniac neighbor, almost killed.
4:00It's a really horrible thing.
4:01Now, this comes after Rand Paul was almost shot, by the way, by a Bernie
4:05Sanders supporter screaming, this is for health care at a baseball field.
4:08So, Rand Paul's been through some stuff.
4:10So, let's just be fair about that.
4:13I can understand he doesn't have a sense of humor about this because it's not
4:16funny. And here is what he said to Mark.
4:20He says that Mark Wayne Mullen has taken the position that this stuff is funny.
4:24This is cut, too. Listen to how this exchange went.
4:28You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me
4:31that the assault was justified.
4:33So, today, you'll have your chance.
4:35Today, I'll give you that chance to clear the record.
4:37Tell it to my face.
4:38If that's what you believe, tell it to me today.
4:41Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six
4:46ribs broken and a damaged lung.
4:48Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it.
4:50And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a
4:55man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents.
5:01Explain to the American public how a man who has no regrets about brawling in
5:06a Senate committee can set a proper example for over 250 ,000 men and women
5:10who work at the Department of Homeland Security.
5:15Clay, I don't think Rand Paul's a yes vote.
5:18That I will say. I don't think that's happening, but we'll talk to the senator,
5:21the other senator, not Senator Mullen, later on in the program.
5:24Yeah. They don't like each other, and sometimes people don't like each other, and it
5:31is theatrical because they can go hang out afterwards and they have political disagreements, but
5:37personally, they get along quite well, and there's still a decent amount of that, I
5:41think, on Capitol Hill, not as much as there used to be, and honestly, I
5:46think that's an interesting question.
5:47Why people got along better on Capitol Hill in the 60s, 70s, 80s?
5:52It seems like the 90s and the early 2000s.
5:55My argument would be social media, which has, to a large extent, created a lot
6:00of performative outrage that pays off, and so some people take it very seriously, even
6:06though for others, it's still a form of kabuki theater, it feels like at times,
6:11but this is real. Rand Paul and Mark Wayne Mullen don't like each other, and
6:18usually you get, as we talked about when this nomination basically was put forward, when
6:24Kristi Noem was let go, we said, oh, Mark Wayne Mullen, he'll get confirmed relatively
6:28easily because the United States Senate tends to take care of its own, and I
6:33think that might factor in here a bit, Buck.
6:36I think that Rand Paul would feel more pressure to not get into a fight
6:42effectively over this if it were going to be a borderline situation, right?
6:49Pete Hegseth, for instance, needed the overall tie -breaking vote of J .D.
6:53Vance, if I remember correctly, in order to be confirmed as defense secretary.
6:58So if we're going to be in a situation like that, I think maybe things
7:01would be different. I think Mark Wayne Mullen will get multiple, probably, Democrat votes.
7:05Certainly, we know he's going to get Fetterman, so it's not going to be particularly
7:08close. But, man, I'm interested to hear from Rand Paul at the next hour his
7:15basis for this perspective. We've had both those guys on.
7:21I'm in a spot where I feel like it kind of reflects what's also going
7:25on with media argue, Buck, where I tend to kind of like most people.
7:30And so when I see people that we're friends with throwing elbows at each other
7:34on social media, I kind of just wish that they weren't.
7:38That's my overall perspective here, too.
7:40I like Rand Paul, and I like Mark Wayne Mullen.
7:44So I wish that they weren't engaged in verbal combat here in the Senate hearing.
7:50But I don't think it's fake.
7:52I think that Rand Paul and Mark Wayne Mullen don't like each other.
7:54And I think Mark Wayne Mullen came on our show a while back and said
7:58that, too. So that's just the reality.
8:02I think that the not liking each other thing, but we've said this as well.
8:06One time, I remember it was quite clear.
8:08Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy do not like each other.
8:11It was a different thing on that stage.
8:14You can tell in the debate there was venom associated with both of them.
8:18It wasn't just a disagreement.
8:20Right. It was. I mean, you can think about this with Democrats like Kamala basically
8:24said to Joe Biden, you're an old white racist.
8:26And then she became his VP.
8:28Like she just said it because she had to.
8:29She had to get some attention.
8:30And Biden was probably asleep with his eyes open.
8:32And so who cares? No, these guys look they have they have personal beef.
8:35Mark Wayne Mullen addressed Rand Paul's comments.
8:37We have to play the other side of this for sure.
8:39This is cut three. Listen in.
8:44I simply address that. I said I could understand because of the behavior you were
8:48having that. I could understand why your neighbor by the neighbor did what he did.
8:53As far as my terms and snake in the grass, sir, I work around this
8:56room to try to fix problems.
8:58I've worked with many people in this room.
9:00Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.
9:03I did address those remarks.
9:05I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.
9:09And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't.
9:13I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise.
9:15I don't like that. But if I do have something to say, everybody in this
9:20room knows I'll come straight to you.
9:21I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind
9:25your back. It's not an apology.
9:29It's not an apology. That's for sure.
9:32I think he was making what he considered to be a joke, right?
9:36If I were analyzing this, like, I don't think that Mark Wayne Mullen is actually
9:42in favor of random acts of violence.
9:45I don't. I think he was making a joke based on his relationship.
9:49A little bit of a cutting joke.
9:51Yes. And I also understand why if you're Rand Paul, you're like, hey, I got
9:57attacked by a crazy left wing lunatic.
9:59I don't think that that should be something that is joked about, right?
10:03So that's where I kind of think they are.
10:05If I always say this, if I were in the Senate, I would vote for
10:09Mark Wayne Mullen. And I think I would enjoy working with Rand Paul, too, because
10:14I like both these guys.
10:15Does it surprise me that they have a dislike for each other?
10:20Not really. Right. Because I can see them being incredibly different individuals.
10:28Right. You know how the jocks and the nerds sometimes don't get along.
10:33But if you're a little bit in the middle between the two, you get along
10:36with both people. I think that that is this version of the of the Senate.
10:45And I just look my general perspective.
10:49Buck, and we talked about this off air, is there's so many.
10:52Okay. People that are truly putting forward awful decisions and have truly bad ideas for
10:59the country that I think sometimes fighting with people who have subtle degrees of difference
11:05on how to get to better places is not a beneficial way to spend your
11:10time. To me, there are so many people throwing crazy things out there in terms
11:17of political on the left right now that whether somebody has a bit of a
11:21different perspective on Iran than I do, I'm not willing to put on boxing gloves
11:26and try to take them out over their perspective on that being wrong when there's
11:30so many people that are not even in good faith engaging in arguments on the
11:36left. Does that make sense?
11:37And I think a lot of you kind of get that.
11:39It kind of echoes the Ronald Reagan thing, which is, you know, thou shall not
11:43fight with another Republican. And clearly that's being violated here.
11:48Yeah. Clay and I try to have no enemies to the right because we're trying
11:50to save the country from the communists.
11:52I mean, that's a pretty that's how we honestly feel like I just don't I
11:55don't like getting into stuff with people that I agree with on 80, 90 percent
12:00of things. When I say again, I'll disagree with them, but attacking them, saying they're
12:03a bad person or I impugn their motives or whatever.
12:06We just this isn't something we've coordinated.
12:09We just both have similar personalities in this respect or similar approaches.
12:13That's just not really who we are as individuals or as a show.
12:18Rand Paul still pretty ticked off.
12:20This is good. I mean, I'm just telling you guys, it was fiery up there.
12:23This is cut five. And Mullen said that there was character assassination going on.
12:28Play five. And the days after the fight, you said, and I quote, sometimes people
12:31just need to be punched in the face.
12:33Is that still your opinion that political disputes can sometimes and often only be resolved
12:38by violence? No, I I don't.
12:42I don't always agree with that.
12:43I don't believe in political violence.
12:45I've made that very clear.
12:46But sometimes people do need me.
12:48Theoretically speaking, that's sir, I get it.
12:50It's about character assassination for you.
12:52That's the way this game is played.
12:54I understand it. And you are making this about you, which is fine.
12:57But that doesn't keep me as such a character assassination when you were the one
13:00lauding the assault. Who do you think started that character assassination?
13:04I'm just repeating what you have done in character assassination.
13:08I'm repeating your support for the assault.
13:11So that's somehow something I started.
13:14No, sir. What I'm saying is you're adding a lot to it.
13:18Yeah, you know, it's not very when you kick somebody down.
13:22You never know. You do.
13:23Be careful when you kick somebody when they're down, because they may be up at
13:26some point and have an opportunity to kick back.
13:28And that's what's going on here.
13:30I will say two things.
13:32Can you remember Democrats going after Democrats in hearings like this?
13:37Oh, I know. A lot of Republicans are about to come after us and say,
13:40like, but this is so terrible.
13:41This is what they're this is what your Republican senators are doing right now in
13:45the hearing, everybody. This is what is going on.
13:47I mean, I'm just presenting to you.
13:48This is the back and forth that you're getting what we're trying to put the
13:51most important after secretary of war, maybe secretary of state treasury, like top five position
13:58in the government. It should be all about the mission, Clay.
14:01All right. So there, Kristi Noem lost her job, not because of Democrat criticism, but
14:07because John Kennedy, who was on this show, asked her a question about two hundred
14:12million dollars in advertising spending, and she answered it different than President Trump did.
14:18And that was it. Right.
14:20Well, she that was people allege that she lied and people are alleging that she
14:23lied under oath. And she lied in a way that actually impugned President Trump is
14:27an incredibly stupid thing to do.
14:29But it was a Republican basically who got her on that issue.
14:34It was John Kennedy. And he said, hey, I'm going to go after him.
14:36My point on this is the knives are out.
14:41Right. And now you got Rand Paul going after Mark Wayne Mullen.
14:44I think what this is symptomatic of, Buck, is sometimes when you're in power, you
14:49have the luxury to feud over things that aren't as significant as when the other
14:54party is in power. Let me say this.
14:56My takeaway from all this, Clay, is guys, we are the SAVE Act is about
15:01to fail. We are running out of time.
15:04We need the best people in the important positions for the Trump agenda.
15:10And we need to get on this.
15:12The previous secretary of Homeland Security was a mistake.
15:16And nobody wanted to hear that at the time because it was all, oh, but
15:20Trump knows what he's doing.
15:21Yeah, he knows what he's doing, but he's not perfect.
15:23You need to have the best people in the best places.
15:26And that should be what the focus of this hearing is instead of I mean,
15:30it was it was nasty.
15:32It was feisty. I mean, Senator Paul just tweeted.
15:35I mean, I'm assuming he's not voting for him.
15:37Senator Mullen tried to justify a violent attack on me.
15:40Now he wants to lead ICE and Border Patrol.
15:42You can't restore law and order with someone who has an anger problem.
15:46America deserves better. So that's a tweet that he just sent five minutes ago.
15:52So he's going to be on with us.
15:53Senator Rand Paul next hour.
15:55We'll talk about it. Stay with us, guy.
15:56And send in the questions.
15:57What questions do you want to ask to the senator?
15:59If we have a couple that are really powerful and we'll try to get to
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17:42Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
17:44So, sad to see Venezuela beat the United States last night in Miami.
17:50Great game. Fun event. But there's other sad news.
17:56Buck probably didn't even know the results of that one.
17:58Buck, I'm surprised that you were even able to get out of bed and come
18:02on the show today. Your boy, Joe Scarborough, had one hour of his show, Morning
18:08Joe, taken away. How are you going to be able to recover as MSNBC is
18:12panicked? Nobody's watching. And your boy, Joe Scarborough, is getting demoted.
18:16I had to pour out a little crock of coffee for my home slice, Joe
18:20Scarborough, this morning in memoriam of the hour of the show that has now been
18:27chopped down. It is a deeply sad experience.
18:30I really, those of you, there's only a few of you, and by a few
18:34I mean probably I could count you on one hand, who were rolling with me
18:37and rolling with Joe and Mika going into the 24 election.
18:42It was amazing TV, guys.
18:44It was like a constant reality show inside of an insane asylum from like, you
18:52know, centuries past. Like, it was crazy town.
18:56Great watching. Great watching. Yes.
18:58Oh my gosh, the Nazis are taking over.
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19:59I want to talk about communists for a second because we were just talking about
20:02red on red fighting. Actually, I get on a little rant about this sometimes.
20:08It is absurd that the Republicans are the red party and the Democrats are the
20:13blue party. I really... This is such a dirty take, but it is accurate historically.
20:18Yes, the Republicans should be blue, Democrats should be red.
20:23This all comes from TV news in like the 70s when they would just, for
20:29election time, put up different colors for the different parties.
20:32I think at one point yellow actually even represented...
20:34And then it just stuck.
20:35So we basically let, you know, CBS News and ABC News and whatever decide that
20:42we're going to have red and blue and that the Democrats, who are clearly the
20:45reds, the commies, the Marxists, the collectivists, they are blue, which is my favorite color.
20:52So this always annoys me.
20:53They should be red, and instead, here we are.
20:57But speaking of reds and commies, James Tallarico is running for Senate in Texas.
21:06Now, I have a lot of faith in the great people of Texas, wonderful state,
21:12that they're not going to elect this guy.
21:14But there also needs to be a message sent.
21:17It is a flat -out absurdity that this is the candidate that they would run.
21:22I would go so far as to say that James Tallarico is more absurd as
21:27a possible Senate representing Texas than Beto would have been, which is...
21:34This is taking a real swing.
21:36I think that's 100 % correct, and I don't know that Democrats really knew what
21:41they were getting into when they put him forward.
21:44You know, Beto looked good in his Wrangler jeans, and he had the cowboy boots.
21:47The campaign stops and, you know, he could kind of fake it a little bit.
21:51And he's like, yo, like, I just want to do great things.
21:54And you're like, what does this guy even stand for?
21:57But then he was like, I'm going to take away your AR -15.
21:59And Texas was like, no, I don't think so.
22:02So here we are with James Tallarico.
22:05This is a flashback to 2022.
22:07I want you to listen to the words of this Senate Democrat candidate and just
22:14enjoy. Play 29. We have, I think, heard more and more issues of animal welfare.
22:19I think not just because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing
22:22to do, but also it's, as all of you know, necessary to fight climate change.
22:27It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we
22:32try to respect animals in all aspects of society.
22:35And so I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non
22:41-meat campaign. So we have, we are, we are only buying vegan products from our
22:48local vegan businesses. The point is that I think all of us, not just policymakers,
22:53but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort.
22:57Clay, the entire audience, all the guys felt their estrogen levels rise.
23:02This guy Tallarico makes Beto O 'Rourke look like Conan the Barbarian by comparison.
23:08It is really crazy. What do you think the odds are of anybody getting elected
23:12in statewide office in Texas who doesn't eat steak?
23:16Like has, this would be a great, like, and not just doesn't eat steak has
23:21a moral ethical problem with the eating of steak.
23:25Like this guy might as well say cowboy hats look stupid.
23:29Like this guy is out of his mind.
23:32That's, that's a really important point, but I just think in general, I don't think,
23:36maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there has been a statewide elected official who would refuse to
23:41eat steak. Like, I don't even think Texas would elect a vegetarian, much less someone
23:45to your point who actually believes that you have a moral obligation not to eat
23:50steak. Uh, this guy, I, I feel as if Republicans played total possum on him
24:00because as much as you want to say about Jasmine Crockett, and we have said
24:05a lot of negative things about Jasmine Crockett, I think Jasmine Crockett is more masculine
24:10than this guy. I, I think that she is more of a, and that's not
24:15an indictment on her. That's an indictment on him.
24:18I think that she is more of a normal Texan and she's way out of
24:22the normal band, but I think she is actually more of the normal Texan than
24:28Tallarico. They really, it feels to me like Democrats talk themselves into the idea that
24:35he would appeal to people.
24:36And again, it comes back to the Tim Walls impact Democrats.
24:40Democrats so don't understand heterosexual men that they can't even comprehend what they could do
24:48to put forward someone to appeal to a heterosexual man.
24:52And it's like Walls. It's like Tallarico.
24:55They don't speak the language and it actually is worse than if they didn't know
24:59anything at all. I want to offer you a theory on this as the author
25:03of Balls. So I feel like there's, there's expertise that has been clearly established on
25:10this matter. I think that I'm not saying that what you're saying is in any
25:16way untrue. I agree with it.
25:17I think there's maybe another layer though, and it's this, that a normal representation of
25:24a standard American heterosexual male is offensive to many parts of the Democrat Party coalition
25:34right now. And so on the one hand, they don't get it.
25:38But on the other hand, they can't even really do it because to be a
25:44normal bro, you're going to upset the purple haired, nose ringed lunatics who are the
25:51street brigade of the Democrat Party and the online banshees trying to convince everybody that
25:58they're bigots and they're bad people if they're Republicans.
26:00You see what I mean?
26:00Yeah. I don't even, I think even if they knew what it was, they would
26:06worry about the depiction because it will upset people.
26:10I think that's totally true.
26:13I also think the analogy here would be, you know how sometimes when you think
26:18you speak the language, you actually end up in a worse place than if you
26:22just asked somebody to try and speak English with you.
26:25I don't know if you guys have ever been in this situation.
26:28I speak French very poorly.
26:31And when I was in France, when I would attempt to speak French, I would
26:36get in worse position than if I just asked them to speak English with me.
26:42And so they have this inability to speak the language to such an extent that
26:48when they try to speak the language, they actually are in worse position than if
26:54they just said, hey, you know what?
26:55We really don't understand this.
26:56I was thinking about this last night, Buck, because the U .S.
26:59lost to Venezuela. Congrats to Venezuela.
27:02But the entire bar that I was at, I was at a sports bar.
27:06I took my kids. I was with a couple of buddies and they had their
27:09kids and we were all sitting around watching the game last night.
27:12Entire bar was going crazy for.
27:15I was with a couple of buddies.
27:15the U .S. during the course of this baseball game.
27:18There was a guy, I'm in Florida right now, there was a guy who wore
27:22an American flag cape to sit at the bar last night where we were.
27:28Okay, tire bars going crazy.
27:29I went in to go to the bathroom, you know, we're out on the patio
27:32and I, you know, kind of walk through and I look at everybody there and
27:36I just think, who's the Democrat that could sit at the bar and actually hang
27:40out with these guys and be normal?
27:43It's all dudes just wanting to watch a baseball game and root for America.
27:48How many Democrats right now could just sit at the bar and be normal at
27:54that bar with all of these normal dudes who may not even be particularly political
27:58at all, right? They're probably not paying attention to the SAVE Act.
28:02They're not paying attention to the day -to -day mechanics of politics, but ultimately they
28:07have to be spoken to.
28:08I don't know that there is a Democrat.
28:10Maybe it's Wes Moore, right?
28:12Maybe it's Gavin Newsom. It's certainly not AOC.
28:15We know it's not Kamala.
28:17It's not Gretchen Whitmer. It's not J .B.
28:19Pritzker, right? Like you can act, it's not Andy Beshear.
28:23You can run through and just be like, that guy can't have a beer at
28:26the bar and be normal.
28:28That's an issue, right? If you're, look, if you wonder how you lost men, how
28:33many normal Democrat elected officials could have a beer at the bar and root for
28:37the U .S. to win a sporting event?
28:40I think they are out to lunch.
28:41I think they are totally lost on this.
28:43And until they recognize that they don't speak the language, they're actually going to be
28:48in a worse place. They're going to be like me trying to speak French where
28:52I'm actually worse off than if I just ask them to try to speak English
28:55to me. And they won't even recognize that they have the problem.
28:59And so I do think the result is you end up with Tallarico.
29:04And I think that Republicans played possum on this because the minute Tallarico won, you
29:10suddenly saw that they had all of this opposition research that they just poured out
29:15there. And I actually think it's a little bit of an indictment of Jasmine Crockett
29:19that she wasn't able to get her team to uncover all this craziness.
29:24Now, maybe her team decided actually our base wants a lot of this craziness.
29:29And that was the reason they had it and they didn't feel like they could
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31:54Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
31:56Senator Rand Paul going to join us in the next hour as on Capitol Hill,
32:00the discussion about whether Mark Wayne Mullen will be the next DHS secretary, which we
32:05believe he will be, is currently underway in earnest.
32:08Can I just be clear, though?
32:09It's really important. This is a really important job.
32:14And unfortunately, this is among, a lot of you would say the way the Epstein
32:19files were handled. The Epstein files have now come out, as far as I understand
32:22it. There was mishandling of that, too.
32:25For me, I think the leadership of DHS may be the single biggest whiff of
32:31the first 12 months. Because, guys, Minneapolis, we pull back.
32:36Minneapolis is now all you're hearing about from these Democrats, and this is what, you
32:40know, the whole thing. It was a blunder.
32:43It was a blunder from the people running that running that shop.
32:45And we need new leadership, Clay, that gets the job done.
32:48Is there a more important thing than deportation, securing the border and changing the trajectory
32:53of illegal immigration in this country?
32:55I don't think so. I don't think there is something that's more important as a
32:59Trump agenda item than that.
33:01Yeah. So I'm I'm pretty frustrated with how it's gone up to this point.
33:04The border securing. Amazing. That that was something that we got done the first 90
33:09days. Yes. So if we want to talk things that are alarming, there are a
33:14lot of them out there.
33:16What I would say is particularly alarming to me is we're now into mid to
33:22late March. Soon we will be into early summer and Congress will just shut down
33:29for the campaign season. And if Republicans don't retain the House and or the Senate,
33:35then we're in significant just basically gridlock for the next two years.
33:43Nothing is going to happen.
33:45So if Republicans don't get through things now, then basically I'm just being honest with
33:53you all. Nothing's going to happen for two years.
33:54And the 2028 election starts in December, my friends.
33:59Yes. Think about that. The 2028 election begins at the end of this year.
34:06So this is really important.
34:08It is time sensitive. The agenda and people are like, we got a VIP email
34:12from Matthew. Please ask Senator Paul.
34:14What are you doing to get the Save Act passed?
34:16We'll ask him. It's not going to pass.
34:20That's it. There's no there's because the way that it has to get passed is
34:24they get rid of the filibuster.
34:25They're not willing to do that.
34:26It's not going to pass.
34:27I think that's correct. I can sit here and complain about it.
34:29And we have. But we're not senators.
34:32We're certainly not 60 senators.
34:33Yeah. And and I think that just ties in with what are they going to
34:37do? We know what Democrats are going to do if they win the House.
34:40I was looking today on Polymarket.
34:43Fuck, there's a 70 percent chance Trump is going to be impeached again.
34:47If Democrats win the House in lockstep, they are going to go impeach President Trump
34:52and we're going to have the multi -month charade.
34:55And you may say, well, this is a total joke and it is and we
34:58agree with you, but they're going to shut down the House and the Senate to
35:01have another trial on President Trump.
35:04They're going to shut down everything.
35:06And again, this this is why I say, look, the House is important.
35:11But the Senate is to me, it has got to be the has got to
35:17be the ultimate, you know, Maginot line, so to speak, that didn't go well, although
35:20that didn't work out so great as we know, but historically did not.
35:23But we've got to have what is the most successful the great wall of China,
35:28wall of China. We got to also, by the way, kind of a fabrication after
35:32the fact, not really that successful.
35:33The Mongols kick. That's what I'm saying.
35:34What is the most successful defense line ever?
35:37However, that's a good military history question.
35:42Maybe maybe they need to have a cemetery ridge third day Battle of Gettysburg bulwark,
35:50which used to be a good word before those crazy people took it over in
35:54order to rebut a charge.
35:56And this is why I've said a lot of people Supreme Court.
36:01Clarence Thomas, 75, Justice Alito, 74.
36:05We may not have the ability to have a president of the same party as
36:09the Senate for another four or five years.
36:11You saw what happened with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
36:13We told you guys to enjoy that first year of Trump's incredible wins and just
36:17running up a scoreboard and all that stuff because it does not last.
36:21There will be the fight ahead.
36:22That is for sure. Clay got me excited about history there for a second.
36:26Some of you are writing in about this.
36:27To be clear, for much of U .S.
36:29history on the red blue phenomenon, blue was, of course, the color of the union
36:33during the Civil War. Blue represented the union.
36:36Blue was the color of the Republican Party.
36:38More often than not, although there was no standard system, it was color TV that
36:42changed this. In 1976, Ford versus Carter.
36:46Blue was suddenly for Republicans.
36:49Red was for Democrats. And this followed the older convention.
36:53But then guess what? They changed it.
36:54Some of you pointed this out.
36:552000 election, red states on the screen after the disputed election, Republican, George Bush, blue
37:02states, Al Gore, and then all the networks followed suit, Clay.
37:05And that's how we got red state, blue state.
37:07The Democrat Party should be the reds.
37:09I'm just saying. Maybe. I don't know.
37:13What would happen if one station just flipped it?
37:16Like if Fox News just said, hey, you know what?
37:18Red, blue. We're going back to the historic.
37:20They went full Department of War on this.
37:22I kind of like that idea because the Democrats are the commies.
37:25They should be red. Blue is the greatest color, in my opinion.
37:28And blue is what the Republican Party has always stood for.
37:30So there you go. When we come back, we'll give you updates on Iran.
37:35We will also continue to talk about the Mark Wayne Mullen hearing.
37:38We've got Senator Rand Paul scheduled to join us.
37:41Some good news. Murder rate hit 125 year low.
37:45I think we should continue to hammer that home.
37:46D .C. crime. Murder rate has collapsed.
37:49I'll hit you with some of those numbers if you want something positive.
37:52We'll also jump back into a conversation we've been having, which I think is very
37:57significant. Kathy Hochul is now begging rich people to move back to New York.
38:01Did you see this, Buck, as the overall budget is collapsing in New York State
38:07and in New York City?
38:08And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10And our good friend, Joy Behar.
38:10I'll be right back. says Trump is doing to Europe the same thing that Adolf
38:14Hitler did to Europe. That's real.
38:16That's The View. We'll have some fun with it.
38:18Thanks for hanging with us on Clay and Bob.