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0:06That's going right now. Jim Jordan, member of Congress, with us right now from the
0:11great state of Ohio. Congressman Jordan, thanks for being here, sir.
0:17Clay is saying that your august institution of the Congress, largely to blame collectively, not
0:25you, sir, of course, but to blame collectively for the mess that is citizenship by
0:32birth, immigration, all this stuff right now after the Supreme Court audience.
0:36What do you think? Well, I think our argument is actually strong in the president's
0:41position, which is our position.
0:42We filed a brief with the court that when you look at the 14th Amendment,
0:48there's that key clause in there subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and I think that's
0:51important because if someone comes into your country illegally, and gives birth to a child
0:58here, that shouldn't, because they were here, weren't subject to the jurisdiction thereof because they
1:05were in an illegal fashion, I think that's important, and that's kind of, I think,
1:10where you hang your hat when you're making the argument that we're making.
1:12We'll see if the Supreme Court buys it.
1:16You know, I hadn't had a chance to listen to the debate today, but we'll
1:20just have to see. Jim, thanks for coming on.
1:23Okay, I'm going to hit you with two things that, so I think this is
1:27not you signing on to this opinion.
1:28I think the Supreme Court is going to say the president doesn't have the executive
1:32authority to do this, and so I just want to hit you with a hypothetical.
1:37If, you know, Buck's lovely wife, Carrie, if they were on a nice honeymoon trip
1:42to Beijing, Bernie Sanders style, and, or post -honeymoon, but she's pregnant, they go there,
1:49and they have a baby in Beijing, that child is not an American, is of
1:54American citizens, would be an American citizen, it certainly wouldn't be a Chinese citizen, because
1:59they don't allow by -soil citizenship.
2:01I think a lot of people are frustrated when they look at this to say,
2:04wait, Chinese citizens are coming here in huge numbers, having babies on our soil, and
2:11then going right back to China, and they've got an American citizen.
2:14That is madness. Can Congress do anything in your mind if the Supreme Court says
2:21the president doesn't have executive authority to address this birth tourism issue in a significant
2:27way? Well, two things. One, yeah, you're making the basic common sense argument.
2:33This does not stand up to common sense, and I understand the Constitution, what it
2:37says, that's why I went right to that clause of the 15th Amendment.
2:40So, I get all that.
2:41But, yeah, what we can do is what we've been working on doing is, like,
2:45steal the border, secure the border, which President Trump has done, and then stop this
2:49sanctuary jurisdiction and all that that involves, and all the other crazy things that the
2:54left is doing. I mean, I think we talked last time, we just passed legislation
2:57out of our committee that says we're going to get rid of this sanctuary jurisdiction
3:00concept, which applies to now almost a third of the country.
3:03So, yeah, those are the things that we need to do.
3:06Now, if we pass a law that says, you know, that deals with birthright citizenship,
3:11it's going to be right back in front of the Supreme Court, right back, and
3:14they're going to look, they're going to point to the Constitution and cite the same
3:17reasons they're going to cite probably now.
3:18So, I don't know that that changes anything, but what we've got to do is
3:21just enforce the law and deal with the situation, which is, I gave this speech
3:24Friday night on the House floor when we were debating the bill that the Senate
3:27sent over and said, they let in 8 to 10 million people, then they create
3:31sanctuary jurisdictions, and now they don't want to fund the people who are going out
3:34to get them, the ICE agent, and they're going to take their money away.
3:37It wasn't enough to spit on them, dox them, track them, harass them.
3:40Now they want to say, we're not going to pay you to do the job
3:43that we're making it so tough for you to do because we let in 10
3:46million people and gave them sanctuary status.
3:48I mean, that's craziness. So, Congressman, can you just tell us where this whole thing
3:55stands with the ICE funding currently?
3:58We know the TSA lines, we've been covering that a lot here on the show.
4:02It seems like that now is not an issue.
4:06You had the Senate on, what, March 27th, voice vote funding most of DHS, so
4:11that's TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, but not the full ICE funding, and then you got
4:16the House on March 27th, rejected the Senate's version.
4:20What the heck is going on?
4:23Yeah, the left is being crazy.
4:25I mean, they shut down the government last fall for 42 days, and now they're
4:28shutting it down for 40 -some days here this spring, and who knows how long
4:32it's going to go. It's just another ridiculous position they take, but that's the scenario
4:37or the situation is that, yeah, they don't want to pay ICE agents and Border
4:41Patrol, and frankly, you don't ever want to establish the precedent that you're going to
4:46fund all of the government except the enforcement side of DHS, which is what the
4:53precedent would have been if we would have allowed that to go through.
4:56So the House said no to it.
4:58All of us Republicans voted against what the Senate had said.
5:02We passed back a clean bill, which said no, just fund everyone, fund ICE agents,
5:08fund the people who are going out there, facing the harassment from the agitators on
5:12the left, dealing with what all they have to deal with, doing their job, make
5:16sure they get funded fully, not this partial deal that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats
5:21wanted to do in the United States Senate.
5:23How frustrating. I think it's a great deal.
5:24I think it's a great deal.
5:24do you think president trump is right now you you know him well um yeah
5:29it seems like i was watching his press conference yesterday um and it and i
5:33know he was at the birthright citizenship argument today on the supreme court it's and
5:38you and i were there for the college sports uh round table and near the
5:43end you could see him near the end of the college sports round table when
5:46they started talking about everything that judges are doing and democrats in congress it was
5:51just you could just see the blood pressure boiling on him he seems and i
5:55know everything going on in iran but certainly he seems very frustrated with the uh
5:59slowness of movement with the american political process is that fair to say you think
6:03oh i think it's very fair to say he's a guy who gets things done
6:07he's a he's a guy who uh you know is focused on results and doing
6:11what he said he would do to when he ran for the job and so
6:14yeah it's frustrating but i think his frustration is no different than the american people
6:18they they they see it all they see it all too and they look at
6:21the left and they're like why do you take the positions you do why don't
6:24you just fund the government just like pay the ice agents to do the job
6:27so of course he's uh frustrated but i think the american people are and um
6:32i think it's you know incumbent upon us republicans to keep doing all we can
6:37to get just common sense things done but also to tell the public to tell
6:41the people held up and it is truly the the the left their crazy positions
6:47and they're just pure hatred of president trump which is ridiculous as well how's this
6:53iran iran war playing out as you see at this stage congressman i think trump's
6:57addressing the nation tonight at nine o 'clock he's going to be calling calling out
7:01nato for not stepping up to help out with the strait of kormuz i you
7:07know i feel like a lot of people are either declaring this right now a
7:11huge win or a huge uh catastrophe and i'm like well it's still happening so
7:16how can we know what exactly has happened because we don't but at this stage
7:22what are what is your what's your sense of how it's going well i i
7:26was listening to you guys a couple days ago and i think you guys had
7:29the right take on i think the vast majority of republicans think that the president's
7:33doing what he said and that this is the right thing to do when you
7:37think about the his you know the 47 years of this this terrorist regime killing
7:41americans killing israelis killing others killing thousands of their own people for goodness sake uh
7:46and you cannot let them get a nuclear weapon which president trump campaigned on or
7:49ran on and was you know part of what he promised the american people so
7:52i think the vast majority of republicans say like okay we're with the president i
7:56certainly am um and i think people with common sense say yeah this you do
8:00not want this crazy regime having a nuclear capability but we also see that everyone
8:06sees the price of gas i was actually in california and there you pull up
8:09at 699 of course that's driven by some of the crazy things in california but
8:13i'm like i look at that sign on the gas i'm like holy cow so
8:17we want it to be over as quickly as possible but i think most people
8:21again with common sense say you have to achieve the objective and if the objective
8:26is clearly do not let this crazy regime have nuclear capability nuclear weapons and the
8:32country understands that so we'll see what the president says tonight but as we've talked
8:37about many times he's a guy who does what he said he's a guy that
8:40you know says he's going to accomplish the goal he's going to get there and
8:43uh this is certainly something he told us he was going to do i agree
8:47with all that um you know and i think you would probably agree with this
8:50if we've been saying on the program everybody you remember everybody said oh minneapolis is
8:55going to be the moment that defines the midterms and now unless you live in
8:59minneapolis or minnesota nobody's talking about that uh right now iran iran iran gas prices
9:06it's you know the first day of april if this war uh or this uh
9:11this uh whatever you want to call it people say you know the president says
9:16not officially a war because congress hasn't acted but let's say this uh this action
9:20uh undertaken by president trump if it's over by may 1 which i think it
9:24will be then we're going to be right back to the economy i think driving
9:29the boat as it pertains to people's reactions post labor day do you buy into
9:34that and if so how does that become the focal point of the midterm election
9:39in your mind well the economy is always you know pretty darn central to any
9:45national election uh midterm or presidential and i assume that's going to be the case
9:50again uh i think you're right in the in the era of modern american politics
9:54in the era of president trump that the news cycle is like every three minutes
9:57so yeah things things are going to change we don't know what's going to happen
10:00between now and in october but it would be nice if we got this economy
10:04back where where we want it uh and prices of of things began to come
10:08down particularly gas prices because it's something we all see and feel every day um
10:12and i think that's likely to happen in light of the big beautiful bill we
10:15passed and now i think we're going to do a second reconciliation i think we
10:18have to in order to deal with this fraud issue you think we're going to
10:21get democrats in the congress to help us deal with the rampant fraud happening around
10:25the country no we're going to do that on our own so let's do that
10:28let's make sure we replenish the troops with the supplies they need after this effort
10:33in in iran and let's make sure make sure we we handle the things maybe
10:37even dhs have to happen with reconciliation to make sure ice gets paid uh we'll
10:42but let's do that and i think that will help with economic growth as well
10:46uh but certainly the big beautiful bill bill with the largest tax cut in american
10:49history that's a good thing and that's starting to kick in I think, going to
10:52help our economy. Congressman, I was at a book event last night, and yes, I
10:59was asked, did you in fact hit a 103 -mile -an -hour serve?
11:02And I said, well, yes.
11:04Not everyone agreed that that was going to happen, but that did happen.
11:08But also, on the real, I was asked a question that I want to pose
11:13to you now, which is, how are we looking for the midterms?
11:17What's your real assessment of that right now?
11:19I mean, I know we're always optimistic here.
11:22You're an optimistic guy. You're a winner.
11:24You're not going to cry about things and say, oh, my gosh, all is lost.
11:27I know that asking this question, but just give us some context for what do
11:31you think has to happen between now and Election Day so that we don't lose
11:37the House, and then they just stymie Trump's agenda for the rest of his time
11:41in office. Well, and you all know the facts.
11:44Historically, midterms are tough when you're the party in power in the White House.
11:47So we get that. The energy right now, the left, is driven by their just
11:51this, you know, Trump derangement syndrome, which is, as you all know, a real phenomenon.
11:55They're driven by that. You saw there's no king bologna they did over the weekend.
12:00And so there's some energy on the left.
12:04But we're raising money. We're recruiting good candidates.
12:06And, again, in modern American politics, in the era of Trump, he has changed things.
12:12Look at our state. Our state, Ohio, used to be the bellwether state in any
12:16presidential election. It was a 50 -50 state.
12:19President Trump won Ohio by 8 1⁄2, 8 1⁄2, 11 1⁄2 in the last three
12:23elections. Things have changed. So I don't think he's conventional with them.
12:28I was in California helping one of our colleagues and raising money for our candidates.
12:32We're busting our tail, doing all the work we've got to do.
12:35And, like you say, I'm an optimistic guy because we're an American.
12:38You've got to be optimistic.
12:39We live in the greatest country ever.
12:41So I think we can still do it.
12:42But let's be honest. It's going to be hard.
12:44It is going to be hard.
12:46But I learned a long time ago, anything worth doing is always hard.
12:49That's just the way the good Lord made it.
12:51We're going to stay after it, and I think we can win.
12:53Are you optimistic that Congress is going to be able to do anything?
12:57We're in the middle of the Final Four.
12:59NCAA tournament has been a lot of fun, and setting record ratings.
13:02Are you optimistic that Congress is going to be able to do anything to help
13:06get the mess in college athletics fixed?
13:09I am, and I want to – you know, Clay, we've talked about getting the
13:14score act passed. We've got to get that done because we've got to get some
13:18ball and get some action on something so that we have to do it.
13:23I wanted to do it last fall like you did in the middle of the
13:26football season. But if we don't do something, I think it's going to continue to
13:30deteriorate, and you're going to get more transfers.
13:33And people want to play 10 years in college, and on and on it goes.
13:36And it hurts everybody. And like we started here, you felt – just like I
13:41did, you felt the frustration with the president.
13:43I think that frustration is with college sports fans all over.
13:47So we're looking to do a hearing.
13:48We're going to bring you in and let you talk to the American people and
13:52to Congress at some point here this spring talking about all these issues.
13:56Because there's things in professional sports that I think are a concern as well.
14:00You're a fan. You want to watch – I always joke – you want to
14:03watch the Browns lose every week in a football season in Ohio?
14:06Well, for goodness sake, it costs you like $1 ,000, $1 ,200, and you still
14:09can't find them. Is it on – is it on – you know, is it
14:12streaming? Is it on network?
14:14Or is it on cable?
14:15Or do I got to do – so we want to look at that issue
14:17too. So there's numbers that I think make sense for – and unfortunately I think
14:22require Congress to do something.
14:24Well, look, we know how hard you're working.
14:26We know how much energy you have trying to get things solved up there.
14:29So thanks for everything. You're always going to be a big friend of the show,
14:32and I'm looking forward to seeing you at that testimony here coming up to try
14:36to get some stuff resolved there.
14:38Yeah, thanks for all you guys are doing.
14:39Take care. That's Congressman Jim Jordan with us talking about all of the battles going
14:45on on Capitol Hill right now.
14:47Buck, take us to the break, and we'll get to some of your calls and
14:49some of your talkbacks. There's some good ones.
14:51You guys are both very optimistic, I got to say.
14:53It's a good thing. You know, your optimism is – Yeah, you too.
14:58I got to say, you're the coaches for the team that never feels like they're
15:01a bunch of losers. So that's a good thing.
15:04I've been on the go a lot, events this week, doing all kinds of stuff,
15:08and trying to do some working out, you know, trying not to get too sweaty,
15:13Clay. So I'm out there doing what I can.
15:16I'm sorry. I did see the photo, and I thought Carrie looks lovely.
15:20She looks like she just came from a nice, you know, great environment, and I
15:24thought Buck looks a little sweaty there.
15:26He just looks a little – it must have been a hot room.
15:28So I schvitz a little bit, okay?
15:31I get sweaty. But neither here nor there because I'm out there.
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16:49section show artemis getting close to being ready to take off the guys and gals
16:55are putting on their space suits and preparing to head back to the moon potentially
17:02i think what did he said what did jared isaac's men tell us 6 p
17:05.m ish in that hour east coast time that the uh space flight is scheduled
17:11to take off so that is receiving a great deal of attention uh president trump
17:16is going to talk tonight buck let's set the table here for what we expect
17:21to hear from president trump and uh and what we anticipate we haven't talked to
17:25ron very much because the birthright citizenship story uh obviously uh given the fact that
17:30the oral arguments happen today is a huge part of the national discussion but on
17:36the flip side you're going to bring us back let's set up a little bit
17:38what we expect to hear from president trump tonight tonight at 9 p .m eastern
17:42uh on the iran situation as they continue to have discussion supposedly that a uh
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18:58so we are talking here about the situation in iran and all of the latest
19:05that we can expect from the president uh tonight now a few things a few
19:10things uh for this first of all clay president saying that things are looking things
19:17are looking great from his perspective overall overall this is a fantastically successful military mission
19:24that's the that's the word from the white house uh more or less in fact
19:28here we could have trump weigh in on this one um here let's listen to
19:33him this is from yesterday this is cut 11 on his iran timeline this is
19:39what he's saying i think we're two or three lakes we'll leave because there's no
19:43reason for us to do this look probably the straight a guy can take a
19:46mine drop it in the water and say oh it's unsafe it's not like you're
19:50taking out an army or you're taking out a country or you know they can
19:53drop it or you can take a machine gun from the shore shoot a little
19:56few bullets on a ship or maybe an over the shoulder missile small missiles that's
20:01not for us that'll be for france that'll be for whoever's using this trade but
20:05i think when we leave probably that's all cleared up today i heard tremendous numbers
20:10of ships were sailing through we're negotiating with them right now again we have had
20:14regime change now regime change was not one of the things i had as a
20:17goal i had one goal they will have no nuclear weapon and that goal has
20:21been attained they will not have nuclear weapons clay he's saying the goal has been
20:27achieved now we have to get the straight open but he's also been frustrated with
20:33european allies here uh emmanuel macron of france has said the strikes are outside of
20:39international law britain's care uh starmer um who makes brian stelter look like conan the
20:47barbarian uh he is declaring it not our war so starmer is is a just
20:53in general a very wimpy guy and letting britain fall as a civilization um and
20:58italy and spain have denied u .s war planes from being able to land at
21:02their bases or flying through their airspace as part of the iran campaign clay so
21:07uh some of our european friends are irking trump and i think we're going to
21:11hear quite a bit about that tonight at nine o 'clock eastern well this is
21:15the big story now oil and gas is a global marketplace which is important uh
21:22but i think what president trump just said is also important which is the strait
21:26of hormuz uh we can have pretty much free ingress egress whatever you want to
21:32say through the strait and all it takes is one bomb to potentially scare the
21:36owners of oil tankers which you could understand uh if you had a ship and
21:41you knew that there was a i don't know what i don't know what the
21:44risk tolerance that's a good question uh if we if we You've got a shipping
21:48magnet who delivers oil through the Persian Gulf.
21:52I would bet one in a hundred.
21:54If you knew there was a one in a hundred chance that your oil tanker
21:57would get blown up, I don't think you'd probably go.
22:00Maybe you'd take the chances at one in a thousand.
22:02I mean, this would be good because it basically just comes down to risk tolerance,
22:05right? How frequently can Iran have a significant enough impact on a oil or gas
22:10tanker, which you can all imagine when it hits an oil or gas tanker, it
22:15goes up in a hurry, right?
22:16We're not talking about being able to easily put out a fire or deal with
22:21this when a drone or a missile or some sort of easy to carry device
22:27is created in an incendiary nature.
22:30So the big issue that I see here is what President Trump is pointing out,
22:35Buck, is it's actually not that impactful to the United States whether the Strait of
22:40Hormuz is wide open because thankfully we have created enough oil and gas independence that
22:46things are pretty good in terms of the United States oil and gas access.
22:52In fact, I was with a friend over the weekend who was in the oil
22:56and gas industry and she said, hey, you know, the oil and gas people aren't
23:01really that upset that the price of oil and gas has gone up because President
23:05Trump's desired price, around $50 a barrel, it's hard, a lot of you guys listening
23:10in Texas, it's hard for the oil and gas companies to make very much money
23:13profitably at $50 a barrel oil and gas.
23:18They need it to be $60, $70, $80 in order to encourage more oil and
23:22gas drilling. And so there's not a lot of people in Texas right now that
23:26are actually that upset. And given that a lot of the money stays in the
23:30United States, we have basically energy independence here.
23:33But Europe doesn't. And so the people that are actually impacted by the Strait of
23:39Hormuz are European, they are Chinese, and they have done nothing to try to put
23:44pressure on Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz.
23:48Now, there is talk as we began this show.
23:51Here is Rubio, by the way, saying cut 17.
23:54We actually depend very little.
23:56This is last night, I believe, on Sean Hannity's show.
23:59So Rubio is saying what I'm telling you guys, which is this is not that
24:03significant to the American consumer.
24:05We're not using that oil and gas.
24:07Cut 17. The Strait of Hormuz, those are international waters, right?
24:10So anything Iran does to impede commercial traffic is illegal.
24:14For all these countries that love to talk about international law, it is a violation
24:17of international maritime law to impede the free flow of travel in international waters.
24:22Okay, so that's number one.
24:23Number two, it's illegal to bomb and hit and attack commercial shipping and sink them.
24:29I mean, that's what the Nazis did during World War II in the Atlantic, and
24:32that's what they're doing now to ships from countries they don't like that are flagged
24:36by countries they don't like.
24:37These are terroristic acts that they're undertaking.
24:39And so the United States gets very little energy through the Straits of Hormuz.
24:43Our allies ship out a lot of oil through there, meaning our Gulf allies, and
24:46certainly countries in Asia and Europe depend on it.
24:49We depend very little on the Straits.
24:51Okay, so Buck, it seems clear to me that President Trump is going to lean
24:57on Europe, on China, on Japan, other countries that depend on the Strait of Hormuz
25:02more. There are reports, and it's hard to even keep up because we say something,
25:06and then somebody from Iran immediately says it's not true, and then there's another story
25:11that spirals out of that.
25:13But it seems to be the case that there is the potential, and we'll see
25:16what President Trump says tonight, of a ceasefire from the United States and Israel if
25:21Iran would commit to allowing the Strait of Hormuz to be back wide open, with
25:26the idea being that President Trump, by and large, has already knocked out a lot
25:31of the top targets. Does that seem like a fair assessment of where we are?
25:35Or what Iran would give up is free shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, or
25:40the price of oil and gas would collapse again in a hurry, and what we
25:44would do is say, okay, we've hit you enough.
25:46We feel like the new leadership we can work with.
25:48I think that's kind of where we are.
25:50Probably something like that. And I think Trump, he's saying this, it's two weeks or
25:55so, we'll be finished up here.
25:57He's clearly trying to keep the pressure on so that there can be some deal
26:02while the Iranians still feel like they can get hit.
26:06You know, that's the leverage, right?
26:08That's the, you know, the knee on the chest here of the Iranian regime.
26:14It's, hey, you better come up with something here, or else we can still hit
26:18you. So that makes sense to me.
26:22The achievement of the end of the Iranian nuclear program, we'll see.
26:27I think he's set it back quite a bit.
26:30That's true. I don't know if he's eliminated that chance forever.
26:35I would doubt that, especially considering a year ago we had all the airstrikes on
26:40the nuke facilities, and then we needed more strikes on more nuke facilities.
26:44So we'll see. You know, I feel like the, isn't it, in Charlie Wilson's War,
26:51Tom Hanks is talking to that guy who actually died, I think, from a drug
26:56overdose a few years ago.
26:57He had a very good actor.
26:58You know what I'm talking about?
26:59He plays Gus Avracados in the movie.
27:05Yeah, thank you. Philip Seymour Hoffman.
27:07That's exactly right. But they're talking, and he does the, you know, the man gets
27:11a horse, and he says, isn't this a blessing?
27:13And he goes, we'll see.
27:14Then he falls off. the horse and he breaks his leg and he goes isn't
27:17this terrible and we'll see and then he's recruited for war but he can't go
27:20because his broken leg and you know we'll see i feel a little bit of
27:24that with this iran situation right now yes the military side of it we have
27:28shown the world that our military is so much more capable and has so much
27:32more ferocity than anything that like an iranian regime so that's changed perception considerably by
27:37the way i think china looks at all this with the whole taiwan situation and
27:41they're like oh these americans are really good at this war thing no just saying
27:46and we are we are very good at this war thing so that is clear
27:50the long -term strategic implications what this means if anything for the oil markets i
27:55think that's still playing out i think that's 100 right uh stock market by the
28:00way has come back in a big way yesterday up over a thousand points another
28:03day of surging stock market prices so the impact um in general i think of
28:10the sell -off has not been very substantial and again what i've said from the
28:13get -go is oil and gas prices matter in a big way and if you
28:18look at what oil and gas prices are in september and october i think that
28:23will give you a great illustration of exactly what we should expect i will say
28:27buck i was telling you this off air poly market which is the prediction market
28:31they have an 86 percent chance that democrats are going to take back control of
28:37the house right now that means if you are out there listening to us right
28:40now and you disagree you can make an eight to one roughly return by saying
28:47republicans are going to hold on to the house the markets are telling you that
28:52that is unlikely to happen more ominously than that right now it's a little bit
28:57over 50 50 that democrats are going to take back control of the senate and
29:02i think as we get this situation resolved the price of oil and gas is
29:07going to go a very very long way towards how people feel um about the
29:12affordability issues in the fall and right now uh republicans this is being honest with
29:19you are big underdogs to retain control of the house and are now favored to
29:25lose the senate too now could these prediction markets be wrong yes can they change
29:30yes but where the markets are right now i think is always important to analyze
29:35when you try to assess what's going to happen going forward and if you're frustrated
29:40with congress now imagine what's going to happen if democrats take back control of the
29:44congress i mean they're going to impeach trump but nothing is going to get through
29:48you're going to not be able to get judges through by and large they're just
29:52going to shut down all of that pipeline and effectively the trump presidency is going
29:57to be over now he can still issue executive orders and he can still make
30:00a lot a lot of decisions but in terms of actually marshalling through any kind
30:04of substantive change in american law it's going to be over so that's to me
30:10why we got to get a lot of action done right now it's also why
30:13justice alito is great justice thomas great on the questions i thought they asked today
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32:17travis buck sexton show uh appreciate all of you uh we got a bunch of
32:23talkbacks let's see if we can hit as many of those as oh man we
32:27got an absolute ton um my goodness uh let's see what are the uh most
32:33recent uh darcy in houston ktrhd listen our youngest daughter was born in dubai when
32:40we were living over there for my husband's work and families over there are required
32:46to prove the blood lineage in order to claim citizenship.
32:50So they keep family books, literally huge books, with their family line.
32:55It's time to end birthright citizenship.
32:58That's wild. It's like Game of Thrones, evidently.
33:01Thank you, Darcy, for telling us that story.
33:03I didn't know that about Dubai, but I know that, again, we are very rare
33:09in the world in allowing anybody born on our soil to become a citizen.
33:14And that was the big topic today.
33:16Moses in Montana, E. Clay, you're getting sucked in by the rope -a -dope technique
33:22from way back when in boxing.
33:25They are not going to approve of birthright citizenship.
33:29They are going to rule for Trump's favor.
33:32Roberts is just the stick man for this.
33:34Because trust me when this decision comes out, and you can know that Moses reminded
33:39you. Moses, we appreciate you.
33:42Yeah, Moses got lost in the reeds here.
33:45He's wrong. It's not going to happen.
33:47Save that one, Producer Allie.
33:49If Moses is right, we will sing Moses' praises.
33:53He's parted the Red Sea.
33:55He will split you like a golden calf.
33:59We will see, but save that one.
34:01I think, unfortunately, he's going to end up being wrong.
34:03Josh in Texas, F. You're both wrong.
34:07Best space movie ever is, of course, Spaceballs.
34:11I mean, come on. I'm not even sure Spaceballs is the best movie with space
34:16in the title. It's definitely not the best space movie.
34:19Todd from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
34:21News Radio, W -O -O -D, Wood.
34:251300 Radio. Aliens is more of a sci -fi movie than a space movie, don't
34:30you think? But I never was a fan of that movie, so I'm with Clay
34:35on this one. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
34:37Okay, well, first of all, of course, the guy who doesn't like Aliens is like
34:40it's not a space movie.
34:41The whole thing takes place in outer space.
34:44People flying around in spaceships going to places that don't actually exist in deep space.
34:50I think that's a space movie.
34:53Jake, this is going to be a fun one.
34:55Jake in Manasquan, New Jersey, listening on WOR, I probably mangled that.
35:03Buck, he's fired up about your wool take.
35:05Wool. You're wrong about the wool when you said no such thing for lightweight.
35:09There are super 100s, super 120s.
35:12I used to be in the custom clothing business, and yes, absolutely, there is a
35:19very lightweight wool, and it is very comfortable.
35:22It is very cool. In fact, wool breathes, and it is one of the most
35:27comfortable fabrics, as long as it's good quality.
35:30I mean, he can say this.
35:32I can get his best 100s, super 100s or whatever wool.
35:36I will sweat through that thing.
35:38You'll be able to wring it out into a bucket, and they'll be like, oh,
35:42but it's super lightweight wool.
35:44No such thing. No such thing.
35:46Did Jake think when he turned on the radio this morning, I'm going to be
35:50arguing with Buck Sexton about wool?
35:53You guys, sheep brothers. Scott in Milwaukee, K.
35:59The greatest space movie of all time, brother, is Armageddon, hands down.
36:05They're going to name schools after him.
36:07Matthew in Charleston, South Carolina.
36:09Buck, he's got some good advice for you.
36:12I'm with Buck on the no ties.
36:13The most I'll ever do these days is call it the Charleston tuxedo.
36:17It's a pair of khakis, a button -down shirt, leave a top button or two
36:23unbuttoned, and a blazer jacket.
36:25That's all. I won't go more than that anymore.
36:29I agree. I don't put on a tie unless I'm really being made to, and
36:34that's a tough thing to do.
36:36The president, I wear a tie when we see the president, Clay.
36:39That's pretty much where I draw the line.
36:41I do wonder if we're going to have a president soon who just gives up
36:45on the tie. It's not going to be Trump.
36:46Is that possible? I don't know.
36:48We'll be back with you tomorrow.
36:50See ya.