Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Apr 6 2026
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0:35Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:37A couple more cuts coming from President Trump at the Easter egg roll.
0:42This is one of the maybe most significant here.
0:47Cut 34. Trump says there's been regime change and that the people that they are
0:52talking with now are reasonable.
0:55Again, 34. We've had total regime change.
0:58You know, the people there now are much more reasonable than the lunatics than you
1:02had in phase one and phase two.
1:05They were lunatics. The people that we're negotiating with now on behalf of Iran are
1:10much more reasonable. You can call it what you want, but I call it regime
1:15change. And I think most people are giving us credit for that.
1:18The first regime was taken out.
1:20The second regime was taken out.
1:21Now the third group of people that we're dealing with is not as radicalized.
1:25And we think they're actually much smarter.
1:28Okay. And then, Buck, you and I were talking about off air.
1:32So he feels comfortable with the people they're dealing with.
1:35We'll see if that means that there is going to be a agreement reach because
1:41President Trump says that Iran has had plenty of time and he's not going to
1:45push back the deadline. We'll see if that changes when he talks here in about
1:4920 minutes. But you and I were talking about this off air.
1:52Trump talking to kids is honestly a really great part of Trump.
1:59And there's a bunch of different cuts going viral of Trump talking to young kids
2:03at the Easter egg. He's like, Iran doesn't listen, but you probably know that better
2:06than anybody. You're in kindergarten.
2:08The smartest in all the kindergarten classes I've heard.
2:11The best. The most smart student.
2:13I mean, they used to have the show Kids Say the Darnedest Things, right?
2:17That was actually just adults interviewing kids to find out what they were going to
2:21say. Is that Bill Cosby back in the day?
2:23Our political life has turned into Trump Says the Darnedest Things.
2:26Yes. I think it was Bill Cosby back in the day who did a version
2:30of that show. But here is Trump asking kids, do you know what the –
2:34this is real. Do you know what the auto pin was?
2:39Joe Biden couldn't sign his own name.
2:41He's sitting with the kids and the Easter eggs.
2:44And this is Trump talking about the auto pin.
2:46Listen. You know, Biden would use the auto pin.
2:50He'd have an auto pin following.
2:52He didn't sign. He was incapable of signing his name.
2:55So they'd follow him around with a big machine, an auto store, an auto pin.
3:01And he'd have the auto pin signed for him.
3:03He'd take the paper, hand it to his guys.
3:05He'd sign it with an auto pin.
3:07Not too good, right? Better to sign him.
3:11There it is. President Trump explaining the auto pin to the little kids at the
3:17Easter egg roll on the White House lawn right now.
3:22This – again, in 20 minutes he's going to be talking about what the situation
3:27is with Iran. But if you remember, it wasn't very long ago that Joe Biden
3:31was trying to do the Easter egg roll, Buck.
3:34And remember one of his staffers was dressed up as an Easter bunny and Biden
3:38started answering questions. And the staffer dressed up as the Easter bunny came, that viral
3:44video, and got Biden and basically took him away from being able to respond to
3:49questions from the media. Meanwhile, Trump is standing there just answering questions left and right.
3:54And over the weekend, I'm sure you saw this start to circulate, a bunch of
3:58people on the left started saying, oh, we haven't seen Trump for a few hours.
4:03It was because he was in the Oval Office monitoring the rescue of the American
4:08troops. But Biden would vanish for days, and we would have no idea what was
4:13really going on. When Trump doesn't answer questions for a few hours, people on the
4:18left just start making up stories.
4:20That's how available he is, that if he doesn't have a public event, almost every
4:2510 hours or so, they start to clamor, where is he?
4:29He's not healthy. Meanwhile, they told us forever that, you know, Biden was sharp as
4:33a tack. Sure enough, they have changed nothing since all of their Joe Biden's just
4:41fine. You don't notice there's no contrition about it at all.
4:44There's really no soul searching or anything else.
4:47There was that hilarious book by fake tapper over at CNN about how I read
4:54how they they covered it, which was amazing to me that you actually saw.
4:58Well, then again, I read Kamala's book.
4:59Yes. By the way, I'm going to tell you this right now.
5:02Kamala's numbers, Clay, maybe you're going to be right.
5:06You're probably going to be right.
5:07I got a little ahead of my skis.
5:08You know, I got a little a little too much.
5:11But her numbers in California are awful.
5:15Awful. Most recent numbers for her to be to be the nominee.
5:19Democrats reckon that that that is a that is a bet the farm situation.
5:24If Kamala runs again, you could bet the farm that she will lose.
5:29Oh, she will lose the overall election or lose the nomination.
5:33Lose the overall election for sure.
5:37I was thinking about this this morning as I was doing my prep.
5:45I'm afraid that Kamala could win.
5:49What? Yeah. What? Buck, this is the craziest thing you've said in a while.
5:55She was 240 ,000 votes away from winning in 2024.
6:03And if the economy were bad and if J .D.
6:06Vance were trying to run on the Trump turn without having, I think it's fair
6:12to say, the same ability to grab control of the narrative like Trump has, if
6:19people are still just angry, my concern, if you wanted me to project for 28
6:23for how things go bad, is that the average voter could still be angry over
6:30affordability in 2028 and just be.
6:33I think you're going to have a double hate situation.
6:36I think a lot of average Americans are just super frustrated with Democrats and Republicans
6:43because they don't feel like their genuine issues on affordability are being addressed.
6:48There's still this anger over Biden allowing inflation to skyrocket to such a degree.
6:55It takes years. This is why I've asked people out there in the audience.
6:58How long did it take for the anger over Jimmy Carter and inflation to dissipate?
7:05I think the answer was, for a lot of people, it didn't really go away
7:09until like 85 -86. And then, I mean, 84, Reagan won the obvious, the big
7:18win. But it was uncertain who was going to win in 84.
7:22It takes several years to work through.
7:25My hope is by 28, it's going to be, you know, everybody's going to be
7:28happy. But I think it was like 85 or 86.
7:31You were barely born. I was a little kid.
7:34And so people really kind of got over the massive inflation that Jimmy Carter had
7:41created. And I still think there's a lot of anger over the 9 % inflation
7:46that we saw and the fact that things cost more than people believe they should
7:50cost. Well, speaking about when I was born, that's irrelevant right now.
7:55But when Clay was born, very relevant.
7:59Happy birthday, Mr. Clay Travis.
8:02Now you can all write in, call in, give Clay your...
8:06I'm not wrong, am I?
8:08No, no, you're right. Today is birthday day.
8:10Oh, God. I thought I jumped the gun or something.
8:15It's actually Bucket's tomorrow. I'm like, no, I have it on my calendar.
8:17It's today. Happy birthday to Clay.
8:19Today, he is 32 years old.
8:23Looking great. 47 years old today.
8:26Look like I'm 87, but I feel like I'm 47.
8:29He's doing great, everybody. He's doing great.
8:32Mr. Clay Travis, 47 years young.
8:35Fit as a fiddle. Could he throw up 315 pounds like our Secretary of War?
8:39Obviously. Obviously. No problem. I've heard stories of a 60 -yard spiral.
8:45I've heard stories of a Clay Travis 400 -yard drive off the back tee.
8:52So, is that what they call it?
8:54So, yeah. This is the reality of our man Clay.
8:57He had a birthday today.
8:58Send him your birthday wishes.
9:00Ladies, ladies, especially if you're over 60.
9:03He's still married. No grabbing, no touching, okay?
9:05Only nice birthday wishes. Don't get too salty, grandmas.
9:09The grandmas get a little salty when it comes to Clay.
9:12I mean, look. They understand that I'm an incredibly lovable person.
9:17And so, yes. I have reached 47.
9:22And I'm going to celebrate today.
9:24First of all, we're going to play the President in about 20 minutes.
9:27So, we'll see what kind of birthday stories we get there.
9:31And then tonight, Buck, I'm going to have steak, I'm going to have cake, and
9:36I'm going to watch the NCAA championship game between UConn and Michigan with some friends
9:43and family here locally. So, that is where – that's the big festivities that are
9:49going on tonight. Had a good weekend, though.
9:51Do you have a preferred style of birthday cake?
9:55Is there – flavor -wise or anything?
9:57What is the iconic – the pinnacle of birthday cake?
10:01To me, you just go – I mean, I don't think you need to overthink
10:04this. I think you go white cake, and I think you go like a nice
10:07buttercream topping. So, white on white.
10:10Not trying to be racist.
10:11But white on white is the best of the cakes, in my opinion.
10:16I understand there's a chocolate cake community out there.
10:19Not a fan. I would just go straight white icing on white cake.
10:24What about you? You have a preferred?
10:26No, I have nothing interesting.
10:27I actually co -sign what you're saying there.
10:29I just – there are some people out there who are ice cream cake people,
10:32and I'm just like, what are we, Marxists?
10:36Ice cream cake? I'm not anti -ice cream cake.
10:39It's ice cream or it's cake.
10:41You get ice cream with your cake.
10:43You don't do ice cream cake.
10:45I don't know what this is.
10:46This is crazy talk. My boys are very much ice cream cake people, so I
10:50might have raised Marxist in that.
10:52respect but i'm an old school i don't think we had ice cream cakes really
10:55when i was a kid so i never really got to uh got to experience
10:59them so i'm going white cake white icing um i will say and i don't
11:03want to alienate anybody you know the worst thing i could ever do is offend
11:07anyone the one thing that i will say um anyone who gets coconut on their
11:13birthday cake is just an absolute savage i mean they may be a terrorist i
11:18i'm very anti like coconut in general but have you ever been to a birthday
11:21party where somebody's like oh yeah we have a coconut shredded shredded coconut on their
11:25birthday cake you go straight deportation on that one really i think you should join
11:29the iranian soleimani's family you should be in a detainer facility they picked her up
11:34in la it's good looking by the way they picked her up in la i'm
11:37gonna say all of a sudden everyone it was pretty funny it was a very
11:41male moment online meeting the guys out there when everyone's like there's an the iranian
11:47general's you know niece lives here that's outrageous and then there's photos of her in
11:51a bikini and guys like i mean due process like we need to think this
11:55through a little bit i do think she deserves her day in court i mean
11:57yeah a lot of a lot of huffing and puffing about the grand niece of
12:02like the ayatollah because she uh looks nice in a miniskirt here in america not
12:07over in iran i might add but yeah um and i i do have to
12:11say that you should join her uh if you are having birthday cake and i
12:16ever show up and you say hey here's my coconut shaved birthday cake i mean
12:21it's just terroristic moves um in my opinion but the coconut to me lemon cake
12:26is always the worst honestly i put lemon cake maybe beyond uh because the flavor
12:32of the coconut cake i think is superior but the little shredded coconut is gross
12:35but people go lemon birthday cake and i'm just like why why do you hate
12:40fun and things that taste good i don't know lemon cake to me is a
12:43very i'm okay carrot cake i'm a fan of i wouldn't do it for birthday
12:47cake though i feel like that's against the rules but carrot cake is delicious i
12:50i like german every every cake but the coconut stuff german sheet cake s -h
12:56-e -e -t german sheet cake is uh very good as well i've never even
13:01heard of this this is like no i i've never heard of german sheet cake
13:05i gotta be careful saying that dust dust i don't want to i don't want
13:11to get us an fcc violation on uh on my uh my birthday here um
13:16this is uh uh by the way we'll uh open up phone lines but very
13:21quickly here because the president's scheduled to talk in a few minutes and uh i
13:26do have buck we can play this on the back side one of the astronauts
13:30was really pretty fantastic in his easter message and i want to make sure we
13:35play it before the president speaks and certainly uh everything is going to be reacting
13:40to the president um for the rest of the show although i would bet that
13:44he's going to be a little bit uh a little bit late um and the
13:47team for those of you watching on video trying to be healthy um and the
13:52team has sent me a uh fruit uh dish wow we just talked about cake
13:57for 10 minutes and our gift to you is fruit i don't know about that
14:02team on a team new york team i don't know i think uh fruit special
14:07here so everybody's telling me i need to be in better shape um i will
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16:32Monday edition, second hour of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show.
16:39Clay Travis birthday edition. I'm going to hit that one more time at the top
16:42here, so you can all send your birthday wishes to Mr.
16:45Clay. He has not aged a day in the five years I've been doing this
16:49show with him, so there you go.
16:50Looks exactly the same. Maybe his biceps are a little bigger, ladies.
16:54That's about it. I am benching more.
16:56I do, and I'm positive, even though I'm old.
16:59I am benching more than I think ever before in my life because I'm trying
17:04to keep up with my 15 -year -old who's got a lot of physical advantages
17:09on me, frankly, but I'm going to try to hold him off as long as
17:12I can. Do you remember when you were a teenager doing things like walking past?
17:17I used to play a fair amount of pickup basketball.
17:21I'd walk past in khaki pants and a t -shirt.
17:24You know, true. Khaki pants and a t -shirt.
17:26Oh, khaki's back in the day.
17:26I was tweeting about this with jeans.
17:29I didn't own jeans until I was basically in college.
17:31I just wore khaki pants all the time.
17:33But I'd walk past, and I'd just jump into a game.
17:35I mean, now, the amount of stretching and stuff I would have to do in
17:40advance of jumping into a basketball game while wearing pants, and not even athletic, like
17:46just normal pants, is a different world that we used to live in, Clay.
17:51Now it'd be like, oh, my gosh, my Achilles.
17:53I couldn't dream of such a thing.
17:55So, yes, the point is 15 -year -old.
17:57It was raining after church, and we were running to try to get to the
18:02car, and I was like, I think I might just pull the groin there, like
18:07trying to make it from church to the car in the rain.
18:11You know, my boys are just sprinting.
18:13You know, it doesn't matter.
18:13They can go straight from, you know, sitting in church for an hour to full
18:17sprint, no time at all.
18:18And I was like, oh, man, I need to get a little loose here before
18:21I start to try to run to avoid the rain.
18:24All true. Now, we're waiting for Trump any moment.
18:27He'll be joining us. We'll pick him up live because he's going to talk about
18:30the, first of all, the successful saving operation, search and rescue operation for a second
18:40airman. We got the first one very quickly from the F -15E fighter jet that
18:45went down in Iran, shot down in Iran.
18:48And it was quite an ordeal to get him out of there, but he was
18:51safely recovered. Now, I think, Clay, there are a lot of Democrats.
18:58It's quite obvious to me there are a lot of Democrats who are hoping things
19:01with the Iran war, let's just say it, go badly, and that that is reflected
19:08in the numbers for Trump.
19:10This is a major hope of the Democrat opposition here at home.
19:14And CNN's Harry Enten has this to say about the situation with the Democrats and
19:22the Senate. I thought everybody should hear what Democrats are facing at this phase.
19:26I know we're months and months out, but we're going to be dialing in on
19:29this with each passing month.
19:30Play 16. This lead is historically low for Democrats at this point with a Republican
19:35president. Because take a look here.
19:37I'm taking a look at the average of all the polls.
19:39Dem generic congressional ballot lead at this point in the cycle with a Republican president.
19:44On average, their lead's actually slightly less.
19:46It's five points. All right.
19:47So Democrats not in a great position, but Donald Trump about to address the country.
19:51Let's take him live. Easter's, I think, in a lot of different ways.
19:54I can say militarily it's been one of the best.
19:59So good afternoon. We have quite a bit to discuss.
20:02We'll go into it in pretty good detail.
20:05And we have the people that are most involved.
20:07We'll give you exactitude. And we're here today to celebrate the success of one of
20:14the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches.
20:19I guess you would call it a search and rescue mission.
20:22Ever attempted by the military.
20:25Generally, when planes are knocked down in war, especially when you're fighting a strong group,
20:31an evil group, you can't really do this because you send in 200 men to
20:38pick up one. And it's something that's usually not attempted as much as you want
20:43to attempt. And bad things happen to that one or two.
20:48And in this case, we did two and might not have been attempted before.
20:52But we did and we got we had great talent.
20:56We got a little luck, too, I would say.
21:00And we were helped by a lot of people, a lot of great people.
21:03And it was an honor to be involved with it.
21:06It's very historic. This is a rescue that's very historic.
21:12It'll go down in the books late Thursday night.
21:15An American F -15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory in Iran while
21:22participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well, well at a level that
21:28nobody's ever seen before. The entire country can be taken out in one night, and
21:35that night might be tomorrow night.
21:38Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive.
21:42On Iranian soil, I immediately was asked.
21:47To make a decision, I ordered the U .S.
21:51Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our brave warriors back home.
21:56A risky decision, because we could have ended up with 100 dead as opposed to
22:01one or two. It's a hard decision to make.
22:05But in the United States military, we leave no American behind.
22:10We don't do it. Within hours, our armed forces deployed 21 military aircraft into hostile
22:15airspace, many flying at very low altitude, being shot by bullets.
22:22You bring rifles into play when you're going that low.
22:25But there are also certain advantages.
22:29And in broad daylight over Iran for seven hours at times facing very, very heavy
22:36enemy fire. We have a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it.
22:39It's amazing. We just realized how good those those weapons are.
22:44Those are machines there. Nobody has nobody has the equipment that we have.
22:49Nobody has the military that we have.
22:51Not even close. The most powerful military anywhere in the world by far.
22:56The flight crews and warfighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue their fellow
23:02service members. This first wave of search and rescue forces successfully located the pilot of
23:08the F -15. And he was extracted from enemy territory by an HH -60 Jolly
23:16Green 2 helicopter. Fabulous machine as our warriors faced gunfire at very close range.
23:24It's amazing that when you look at the machinery, what happened, that nobody was even
23:31injured. Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapons system officer, a highly respected colonel, had
23:38landed a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds, even
23:43if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles.
23:47It's miles and miles away because you're going fast.
23:51He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area teaming with terrorists from the
23:57Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rough group, as well as besieged military militia and local authorities.
24:06Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities actually with inside of Iran,
24:15the people of Iran, they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.
24:21Despite the peril, the officer followed his training and climbed into the treacherous mountain terrain
24:27and started climbing toward a higher altitude, something they were trained to do in order
24:33to evade capture. They want to always go as far away from the site of
24:41the shoot down. You want to go as far away because they all head right
24:45to that site. You want to be as far away as you can.
24:49And he was injured and he was an amazing, amazing thing.
24:53He scaled cliff faces, bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds and contacted American forces
25:02to transmit his location. They have a very sophisticated beeper type apparatus that is on
25:12them at all times. And when they when they go out on these missions, they
25:17make sure they have lots of battery space and they're in good shape.
25:21And this one worked really well.
25:23Amazingly saved his life. We immediately mobilized a massive operation to retrieve him from the
25:30mountain holdout. And he kept going higher and higher.
25:35The mountain kept getting rougher and rougher and really very, very hard to find.
25:39The second rescue mission involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers,
25:5013 rescue aircraft and more.
25:52We were bringing them all over and a lot of it was subterfuge.
25:57We wanted to have them think he was in a different location because they had
26:02a vast military force out there.
26:04Thousands, thousands of people were looking.
26:07So we wanted them to look in different areas.
26:09So we were scattered all over like we were right on top of them.
26:14We had seven different locations where they thought and they were very confused.
26:18They said, well, wait a minute.
26:19They've got groups here. They've got groups there.
26:22It's an amazing thing. I was listening to these great people, these great generals.
26:30General Raisin Cain was amazing.
26:32And Pete Hegseth was amazing.
26:34But I listened to the whole thing.
26:35It was pretty amazing. So they had all these different sites where everybody thought he
26:40was located. We think we have them over there because they have nine planes circling
26:45a little area that's 25 miles down the coast.
26:49So in a breathtaking show of skill and precision, lethality and force, America's military descended
26:57on the area, the real area, engaged the enemy, rescued the stranded officer, destroyed all
27:05threats and exited Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind.
27:12The heroic F -15 weapons system officer WHO had never been caught in the IAVET,
27:15who had never been caught in the IAVET, who has never Had evaded capture on
27:17the ground in Iran for almost 48 hours.
27:22That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when you're bleeding.
27:26It's a long time. When we left, as you probably know, we had two large
27:33planes, pretty old planes. It carried a lot.
27:36We needed a lot more equipment going in than coming out, obviously, because going in,
27:41we needed to be able to scale mountains.
27:44And we had a lot of equipment, but the sand was it was sandy, wet
27:49sand. So we thought there may be a problem taking off because of the weight
27:54of the plane. And then we also had all the men jumping back onto the
27:58planes and they got pretty well bogged down.
28:01And we had a contingency plan, which was unbelievable, where lighter, faster aircraft came in
28:07and they took them out.
28:09We blew up the old planes and we blew them up to smithereens.
28:13Because we had equipment on the planes that, frankly, we'd like to take, but I
28:17don't think it was worthwhile spending another four hours there taking it off.
28:21So we didn't want anybody to have the best equipment anywhere in the world.
28:25We didn't want anybody examining our anti -aircraft and other equipment.
28:31So these were large planes that were old and pretty old.
28:36And we blew them up and we had faster, lighter planes come in and they
28:42were able to land on the sand.
28:43We needed the bigger planes because we had so much equipment that we needed.
28:46We took three helicopters over there, which were very strongly used and couldn't have lived
28:51without them. They did. They performed unbelievably well.
28:54And if you'd see it, you wouldn't believe it.
28:56But they came off the plane and these guys had them, the rotors were off.
29:03They rebuilt these helicopters in less than 10 minutes.
29:08And that was one of the more amazing things.
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31:04Welcome back in. Clay, Travis, Buck, Sexton Show.
31:08We have got President Trump still taking questions.
31:11He has been talking for at least an hour -ish now.
31:16He started at the top of last hour.
31:18He is still going now.
31:19We will continue to monitor those questions.
31:23The stock market has not moved very much in any direction at all during the
31:28course of the past hour, suggesting that there has not been much in the way
31:33of news that was unexpected, Buck, so far.
31:38One bit of news that is kind of cool.
31:40Did you know? And again, it's kind of getting snowed under with all the attention.
31:45With the Artemis II astronauts, we now have sent humans farther from Earth than ever
31:54in the history of the world.
31:57The humans are now over nearly 250 ,000 miles from Earth as they are preparing
32:06to go around the dark side of the moon.
32:08And that is pretty cool.
32:11And again, basically snowed under with all of the news that is taking place in
32:16the United States and around the world right now.
32:19But as we are speaking to you now, humans are farther from Earth than they
32:24have ever been in recorded history.
32:28I feel comfortable saying history.
32:30And that is pretty awesome.
32:32So on the dark side of the moon.
32:35As President Trump was beginning to speak an hour ago, we played you a cut.
32:41And actually, let me... give you a positive here buck you have not heard this
32:46well let's have a super positive it is it we just came through easter weekend
32:50um and i know many of you with your friends and family and hopefully you
32:54all had fabulous easter weekends we did here i know buck did as well this
32:59is um artemis 2 astronaut victor glover who unscripted was asked what his message might
33:08be on easter weekend for everyone back on earth and i thought this was so
33:14fantastically well said the team pulled it i shared it as well here is victor
33:19glover astronaut in space listen to this on easter weekend for me one of the
33:24really important personal perspectives that i have up here is i can really see earth
33:30as one thing and you know when i read the bible and i look at
33:32all of the amazing things that were done for us who were created it's you
33:37have this amazing place this spaceship you guys are talking to us because we're in
33:41a spaceship really far from earth but you're on a spaceship called earth that was
33:46created to give us a place to live in the universe in the cosmos maybe
33:50the distance we are from you makes you think what we're doing is special but
33:54we're the same distance from you and i'm trying to tell you just trust me
33:57you are special in all of this emptiness this is a whole bunch of nothing
34:02this thing we call the universe you have this oasis this beautiful place that we
34:06get to exist together i think as we go into easter sunday thinking about you
34:11know all the cultures all around the world whether you celebrate it or not whether
34:14you believe in god or not this is an opportunity for us to remember where
34:18we are who we are and that we are the same thing and that we
34:22got to get through this together i thought that was really well said again that
34:26video is out there he's floating in space asked about what his experiences have been
34:33so far and unscripted he uncorked what i think is pretty incredible and again the
34:40artemis 2 crew has now set a record for the furthest humans have ever gone
34:44from the planet earth uh as we are speaking to you now president trump continuing
34:51to answer questions but you know you know what's interesting uh buck you started to
34:56play this cut uh from cnn as we are starting to move into midterm election
35:02cycle and i forgot what number it was you may have it in front of
35:05you again but we started to play it and then president trump started to speak
35:09i mean the the leader of the free world decided it was time to address
35:13the uh whole nation so i had to cut harry enton off sorry harry poor
35:17man's ryan gurdusky but he's uh he's going to come back now we're going to
35:21play it let's do it this lead is historically low for democrats at this point
35:27with the republican president because take a look here i'm taking a look at the
35:30average of all the polls gem dem generic congress congressional ballot lead at this point
35:34in the cycle with the republican president on average their leads actually slightly less it's
35:38five points that's less than it was back in 2018 when it was eight points
35:43and way less than it was during the 2006 cycle when it was 11 points
35:46so yeah democrats are ahead but they're only ahead by five with a president whose
35:52net approval rating is bordering on minus 20 to minus 30 depending on what polls
35:57you look at you'd make the argument democrats should be way ahead and they're just
36:00only sort of slightly ahead so that is out there as we look at midterms
36:07and i wanted to share this buck um this is from the new york times
36:11and the republicans the senate leadership fund it has unveiled a plan to spend 342
36:21million dollars to hold the senate and buck this is you know i know the
36:26house is going to get a lot of attention but to me the senate is
36:31the whole ball of wax in many ways because we know the house is going
36:35to impeach trump and all those things but really we need to be able to
36:39continue to get judges through number one expenditure i don't know if any of these
36:44will surprise you but i thought this was interesting ohio 79 million dollars so jd
36:51vance has now been elevated to vice president and as a result his seat is
36:58up for grabs and they are running the guy who just lost to bernie marino
37:04uh 79 million to keep that uh overall seat then north carolina 71 million that
37:13is where tom tillis is stepping down those are two republican seats um main 42
37:19million that is uh susan collins now in theory all three of those seats could
37:25be lost and you would still have jd vance to break the tie so you
37:30would still have control of the senate then this is what i would call buck
37:35the uh sort of red wall states iowa 29 million and alaska 15 million so
37:44that is the five gop held seats where republicans are saying okay we're going to
37:49spend a lot of money uh democrat held seats michigan we talked with mike rogers
37:56friday i think he was on the show friday the top the senate candidate in
38:00michigan uh gop is going to spend 45 million dollars on that open seat and
38:06then 44 million dollars in georgia and 17 and then 44 million dollars in georgia
38:10and 17 and 15 million dollars in georgia and 17 million dollars in new hampshire
38:12to try to flip one of those three top target states out there michigan georgia
38:19and new hampshire it's not too early to start thinking about this landscape and i
38:23thought given that harry enton clip these numbers jumped out at me so effectively eight
38:29states that will decide who controls the united states senate look i think that ohio
38:36is going to be much more interesting in some ways than it should be you
38:40know the governor's race is close yes and it shouldn't be close but because of
38:46trump's endorsement there for vivek the ohio gop just decided we're going to make him
38:52they didn't run a primary really they said we're going to make vivek ramaswamy the
38:55candidate he's got some huge weaknesses especially in a state like ohio because of his
39:00public statements he's going to make things a lot tighter than they should have been
39:04which is going to affect everything you know you say oh that's the governor's race
39:07what's going to affect the senate race too uh as you know ballot splitting i
39:11mean these things are uh you want you want it to be as solid red
39:16as it can be across the board so i see that playing out in a
39:21way that is it's going to i'm not saying that uh the democrats will win
39:25either of those but it's going to be a challenge when we thought of ohio
39:29as pretty safe red territory for a few elections here and it has been so
39:34that's i think another interesting uh component to all of this there's also we can
39:39play 17 as well there's more on this from harry enton i'd like to hear
39:42more of his data analysis from over he is a good data analyst i will
39:47give give credit where due harry enton this is 17 play it why is that
39:51generic congressional ballot lead solo because just take a look at this net favorability party
39:56ahead at this point midterm of years with the gop president in 2018 dems were
39:59up by 12 in 2006 on net favorability which party like more dems are ahead
40:03by 18 republicans are actually ahead on net favorability at this point by five points
40:09so democrats are just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks and they need to
40:13be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the united states
40:16senate given that man so look democrats are not in for given the math of
40:23midterms democrats are not in a very good spot right now which is unsurprising so
40:29like i said at the very beginning of this or early on i think that
40:32there's a lot of wishing for catastrophe in iran and as that pertains also to
40:40the economy and gas prices and everything else because they're the first of all clay
40:45who is the leader of the democrat party right now we still ask this question
40:48yes that matters there is no leader of the resistance you know when you talk
40:53about previous uh you know previous administrations just go back 20 years there have always
41:00been a couple of democrats or a democrat who is the voice of the opposition
41:05or the voice of the regime right now i don't know i don't think anybody
41:10knows gavin newsom is hoping to consolidate that around him we'll see there's no other
41:16democrat though you know barack obama it's been a long time and i don't know
41:20obama has never one thing about obamaism that is just clear from the numbers he
41:25has never translated into helping other democrats very much he was good at getting elected
41:32he was not good at electing other democrats uh i think he was a singularly
41:37effective for his own for his own uh political purposes anyway uh i think that
41:42it's going to be i think we're going to be fine in the senate it's
41:46going to be a real dogfight in the house much more so than it should
41:48be for a party that is in power at this stage of the game um
41:53but i feel i feel do you feel confident in the senate i have full
41:56confidence we're going to maintain the senate i feel pretty good about the senate and
42:00i think this election is going to come down to again i said it earlier
42:03in the program a lot of people are just angry but the favorability for democrats
42:09is actually lower than the favorability for republicans so i think we live in a
42:14world now where the idea that you're going to have someone who is really really
42:18popular on the democrat or the republican side is unfortunately not our reality and so
42:24it's almost the side of which one is disliked more you know there isn't there
42:29isn't like hey i really like both these guys and it's going to be tough
42:33for me to pick it's i dislike both parties but i dislike the democrat party
42:39more than i dislike the republican party so um it is a it is a
42:44that's the cycle that we seem to have been in for some time and look
42:48i'm i would say a little bit nervous when i see the dollars that are
42:52going to have to be spent in ohio i would not have expected that republicans
42:58would be spending the most of their money in ohio one thing i will say
43:03media tried to talk up texas texas is not even on the list of states
43:08that republicans are planning to spend they they always do this they put betto on
43:13the cover of vanity fair for heaven's sakes i mean not that that was to
43:18be fair you want you want to appeal to ranchers in west texas get a
43:21vanity fair cover they're like oh i love that vanity fair i will say they
43:26did have to spend republicans did a ton of money against betto betto is way
43:31better of a candidate than tallarico and i think this is a tacit acknowledgement that
43:36texas is not going to be in play that texas is not going to be
43:38in play But Ohio, Ohio should be an easy win.
43:41It should be. And the fact that it's going to cost $75 million to potentially
43:46win that seat that is already in Republicans' hands, I think is not ideal.
43:52All right, we come back.
43:53We'll give you more. Trump is still talking, still answering questions.
43:58There have not been very many fireworks so far, but we will continue to monitor
44:05this. The stock market hasn't moved very much one way or the other, so there
44:08has not been a ton of news to come out of this.
44:10In fact, Buck, I think President Trump basically said everything he was going to say
44:14when he was talking at the White House Easter egg roll.
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46:13Clay and Buck, before we send you off, we have so many great talkbacks and
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46:44And I'm trying to, Clay, I'm a little bit stalling because I'm trying to find
46:47the latest. Where are the talkbacks on the cakes, guys?
46:51We've got to, oh, here we go.
46:52They all do. We've got to bet.
46:53All right. All right. Light them up.
46:55Light them up, Linda. Let's do it.
46:58First of all, let's go to D, Jerry from Texas, teeing off on me.
47:04Jerry, cut D. I really thought Clay was about to say, I'm going to have
47:09steak, I'm going to have cake, and I'm going to have a cup of rosé
47:14to go along with it.
47:15Hey, hey. Not that there's anything wrong with that, Clay.
47:18Not that there's anything wrong with it.
47:19I'm going to, again, it's my birthday.
47:21My plan is watch the college basketball national championship game, have some steak, have some
47:27cake. No rosé plan. And Joe from New York City, not happy with you.
47:32W -O -R listener. Talk back E.
47:35Buck, you dirty dog. Don't you ever talk about my ice cream cake like that
47:40again. I will never wish you a happy birthday ever again.
47:44Ice cream cake is the greatest thing you could have on your birthday besides a
47:47beautiful woman. Okay? Knock it off.
47:50I mean, I agree with the beautiful woman comment from Joe, who's a great New
47:54Yorker listening on W -O -R.
47:56I just think that ice cream and cake separated are a much better combo.
48:01I don't think you need to combine these things.
48:03I'm a true believer in the cake being the cake and the ice cream being
48:07a scoop on the side.
48:09Jeff in Charleston teeing off on us.
48:12Cut G. Okay, Clay and Beck, this is Jeff from Charleston.
48:15I just have to say you both are cake losers and should never make any
48:21decisions on cake. All right, can I throw a flag here, Jeff from Charleston?
48:26Let's say you're right, Jeff from Charleston.
48:28Let's say Clay and I are cake losers.
48:30You've got to tell us why.
48:31Like, are you going all in on coconut shredded on your cake?
48:36You've got to give us more to work with here than just you guys are.
48:38You can't just send us a talkback that says we're losers and, I mean, you
48:41can, and we just played it on the air.
48:42We're losers and we're wrong.
48:44There's a comma there. Why?
48:46You've got to give us the why, buddy.
48:48You've got to tell us what about this, because we've got nothing we can fight
48:51back with right now. You're just saying our cake takes are, in general, terrible.
48:55I mean, maybe he's a big German sheet cake guy.
48:58Who knows? Very careful there.
49:00Boston tees off. Unidentified Boston listener.
49:03Cut H. How can Buck be from New York?
49:06and not be familiar with ice cream cake.
49:08That's where Carvel ice cream originated.
49:11Ice cream cake is the best.
49:12Not sure how Buck is missing that.
49:14My familiarity with ice cream cake is what breeds my contempt for it.
49:18That's the point. Producer Greg Buck is not even in studio, I don't think, today.
49:25But he had a talkback.
49:26I mean, the guy who took time off for vacation to go watch the Eclipse,
49:30probably not going to surprise anybody out there that he's a huge coconut on cake
49:35fan. Cut F. Hi, guys.
49:39It's Producer Greg. I have coconut on my cake for my birthday every year.
49:45If you guys can't figure out that the little bit of coconut on your cake
49:49brings the islands closer to you, I can't help you.
49:53Was that a cat in the background, too?
49:55I mean, just. Definitely. It definitely was a cat in the background.
49:59Are we sure Producer Greg is actually on our team?
50:03It's got cats in the background, coconut.
50:05He takes time off for eclipses.
50:07I don't know. Is there secret recordings?
50:10You know, we got two hockey super fans, Producer Greg and Producer Mark, and they
50:15go to the mat for all you hockey fans who listen to us and don't
50:18let us get away with any shenanigans, you know, talking smack about hockey.
50:22But I just feel like people that like shredded coconut on their cake also probably
50:26like hockey. That's where I'm coming down on this.
50:28Oh, I think that that's actually, those are, Producer Greg might be the only guy
50:33who likes hockey and also is going to go with shredded coconut.
50:38It's awful. I don't, it's basically telling everybody at your birthday party, I hate you,
50:44but I like this, and so everybody else has to do it.
50:48It's just, it alienates. Talkback listener Jay, a podcast listener rather, Luke from Colorado on
50:53Jay. Hit it. Hey, Clay, my name is Luke from Colorado, and as old as
50:58you are, I'm wondering if the high school mascot was your T -Rex.
51:02All right. Whoa. 47. Hey.
51:04T -Rex, no high school mascots, and let's see.
51:08What was your high school mascot, actually?
51:09Curious. That's not really great.
51:11The Royals? That's kind of, yeah.
51:14Mine was not great. A little better.
51:16The Raiders. The Raiders. Yeah, Raiders is a very common high school.
51:21We had the Royals, which basically had become like a lion, right?
51:27Like the Royals, but, you know, I'm not going to lie.
51:30Why not just go Lions, then?
51:32Why go Royals? You know what I'm saying?
51:33I don't know. It's a fantastic question.
51:35It's a great question. All right.
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