Hour 1 - Trust in Trump
3/31/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome in on this Tuesday edition, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
0:10The number one story remains what is going to happen in Iran.
0:16And President Trump has sent very strong suggestions that this is going to be winding
0:23down very, very soon. And as a result, the stock market is surging today.
0:30As Trump has said, look, the reality is the United States is not particularly reliant
0:37on oil and gas arriving through the Strait of Hormuz.
0:41And as a result, it is not the responsibility of the United States to be
0:47the world's policeman as it pertains to oil and gas being able to come through.
0:52Early morning press conference from Pete Hegseth, basically letting it be known that there are
0:58still a lot of different options.
1:01And I thought, most interestingly, Buck, saying actually regime change did occur.
1:08Now, we still don't officially, at least publicly, know who is going to be running
1:14things from Iran. But Pete Hegseth, this morning in a press conference from the Pentagon,
1:20said regime change has happened.
1:23And then if Iran is not willing to make a deal, we'll continue to rain
1:29down holy hell upon them.
1:31This is what that sounded like.
1:32Cut five. If Iran is wise, they will cut a deal.
1:35President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down.
1:38You can ask Khomeini about that.
1:39The new Iranian regime should know that by now.
1:42This new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.
1:47President Trump will make a deal.
1:49He is willing. And the terms of the deal are known to them.
1:51If Iran is not willing, then the United States War Department will continue with even
1:57more intensity. So that was Pete Hegseth, point one.
2:02The other one is President Trump made it quite explicit, as Pete Hegseth said, in
2:08a choreographed truth posting this morning.
2:12Listen to Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, analyze what President Trump said.
2:17Cut six. I think the president was clear this morning in his truth that there
2:20are countries around the world who ought be prepared to step up on this critical
2:23waterway as well. It's not just the United States Navy.
2:26Last time I checked, there was supposed to be a big, bad Royal Navy that
2:28could be prepared to do things like that as well.
2:31So he's pointing out this is an international waterway that we use less than most,
2:34in fact, dramatically less than most.
2:35So the world ought to pay attention and be prepared to stand up.
2:38President Trump's been willing to do the heavy lifting on behalf of the free world
2:41to address this threat of Iran.
2:42It's not just our problem set going forward, even though we have done the lion's
2:47share of preparation to ensure that that strait will be will be open, which is
2:50an outcome that the president's been very clear on.
2:52Okay, Buck, my biggest takeaway here as I analyze everything about what the president and
2:58what Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, said is it feels to me like Trump is
3:03looking for a way to kind of deliver a coup de grace of sorts and
3:09just say we're out. A drop the mic moment that he proclaims as victory and
3:15is able to step out and then, in theory, gas prices return to normalcy.
3:21The stock market, as you are seeing today, is buying into that idea as it
3:25is surging very much. Is that your analysis of where we are?
3:29How would you analyze the latest statements on Iran from the president and Pete Hegseth?
3:36Well, first up, here is his truth that he put out.
3:41It is called the truth, not a tweet, technically.
3:43All of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz,
3:48like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I
3:52have a suggestion for you.
3:53Number one, buy from the U .S.
3:55We have plenty. And number two, build up some delayed courage, go to the strait,
4:00and just take it, all caps.
4:03You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.
4:05The U .S .A. won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't
4:09there for us. Iran has been essentially decimated.
4:13The hard part is done.
4:15Go get your own oil, President Donald J.
4:20Trump. No thank you for your attention in this matter.
4:22So I guess he's just had enough of people expecting him to always thank them
4:27for the attention. Clay, Trump wants the strait open, and I think, to move on
4:34from this as soon as possible.
4:36So if the strait opens up, if there's some agreement with Iran that allows the
4:41administration to say, you know what, we're able to now stop the continuous airstrikes, they'll
4:47take that off -ramp, I think, very quickly.
4:49And yeah, go ahead. No, I think that builds in.
4:54To me, what is being sought here is an opportunity that feels significant that President
5:00Trump can take as the climactic action that demonstrates this entire operation is over.
5:07And I think the way the stock market is reacting today is that that is
5:12sooner rather than later. You said you thought April 1.
5:16We're sitting here at March 31st.
5:18I think I said by middle of April at the latest, so we're very much
5:24in agreement. in general with the timing here and it feels to me like that
5:29this is trump signifying to everybody hey most of this work is done i also
5:33think buck it factors in a bit uh for uh this possibility israel may not
5:40be done and it may be the case that we begin to step back uh
5:45from the perspective of the united states military action and that as a result israel
5:50is in many ways operating on their own timeline which might be a bit different
5:55than ours that that would be i think that would be a big problem because
5:58if we if iran doesn't create a choke point at the strait by threat if
6:05iran basically says we agree we will not hit any oil tankers in the strait
6:10or any ships at all for that matter and then israel continues airstrikes i think
6:14iran's going to say hold on a second this is our leverage so i think
6:19i think the israelis have to cut it if we cut it as well they
6:22can't continue on with the campaign unless they want to be in a position where
6:26essentially the united states will have a ceasefire of sorts and the israelis will continue
6:32the conflict i think that's a very tough look for the israelis uh if that
6:37were to continue if that were to go down that that pathway so in the
6:40meantime we're hoping that they end this thing uh as quickly as possible and that
6:46gas prices normalize and all these things allow us to move on i mean secretary
6:51of war uh hegseth has been very clear that he thinks we are close to
6:57this being done um and in terms of the boots on the ground situation we
7:02didn't play eight yet did we clay because i think this is important this is
7:05a big concern here he is talking about uh boots on the ground and how
7:10this is about options and getting to the desired outcome it's not telegraphing or making
7:17promises in advance of a negotiation with the enemy play eight as far as president
7:22trump and boots on the ground i don't understand why the base which they have
7:26already they understand wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this look at
7:30his track record pursuing peace through strength america first outcomes and what he's simply saying
7:35and it's exactly true and i've said from this podium too we're not going to
7:38foreclose any option you can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary
7:42what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do to
7:45include boots on the ground our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways
7:49we could come at them with boots on the ground and guess what there are
7:52so if we needed to we could execute those options on behalf of the president
7:56united states and this department or maybe we don't have to use them at all
7:59maybe negotiations work or maybe there's a different approach the point is to be unpredictable
8:03in that clay he's basically saying trust in trump yeah that's the strategy trust in
8:09trump he knows what he's doing we're going to get to the other side of
8:12this and i'm getting the sense still that most republicans democrats i can't wait because
8:18they hate trump and you know that they're but most republicans i think are still
8:22in the trust in trump phase because other than a spike in gas prices what
8:27is the loss that would turn them against trump so much i don't think it's
8:32there and even the boots on the ground possibility right now is being used as
8:36leverage it's not actually happening yeah i think that's where democrats get lost still with
8:41trump he throws out a variety of different perspectives and again i think one of
8:46the most successful things trump has done is keep iran on its toes and not
8:51aware of what's going to happen he caught them by surprise on the june attack
8:55uh when we bombed initially he clearly caught them by surprise when they took out
9:00the ayatollah and so iran right now is sort of on their back foot trying
9:05to assess what's likely to end up happening and i don't think there's an easy
9:09answer as to uh what exactly they are able to do i will say there's
9:16a ton of vehicles ton of boats moving through the strait of hormuz today which
9:21is the highest level of boat traffic that we have seen in basically a month
9:27and i do think that that is a uh that is a tacit sign that
9:33some elements of iran have been telling the oil and gas community hey we are
9:38okay with having you being able to uh to transit and we're not necessarily going
9:45to attack you remember the strait of hormuz is iran cutting its own throat because
9:50the only way this regime has any money at all is from sending their oil
9:55and gas through the strait of hormuz and so if iran is bombing you could
10:00say yes well they could let their own fleet go through and they could bomb
10:04other boats which i guess is a possibility there but i think that's going to
10:08be a hard distinction to make and uh that ultimately um the fact that we're
10:13seeing way more ships go through in transit i think buck is actually a sign
10:18that iran is trying to prove to trump that he is negotiating with people who
10:22do in fact control decision making in iran and whether or not ships are allowed
10:27to go through is a sign of this regime having some control um the new
10:33regime because remember theoretically uh little mo uh the son of the ayatollah is in
10:40charge but we still have no idea where he is or who is making decisions
10:43and most of them may be gay we're told yes which is an interesting twist
10:49of fate that we were told this by the president himself And then I think
10:53Trump said that, you know, not that there's anything wrong with that.
10:56That's right. But there would be something wrong with that in Iran, to be clear.
11:00Little Moe, you would think, would have a problem if everybody knew that.
11:04So that might have been an information operation of some sort to just get that
11:07out there. Because I think it's hard to run a mulacracy if they think that
11:13you're actually a gay guy.
11:15Yes. That is a tough position to be in in Iran.
11:19And President Trump, I thought, kind of talked about that in a humorous way.
11:22As we played for everybody on the five when he called in and he was
11:25asked directly, did the CIA tell you that he may the leader may be gay?
11:29And he basically went full Seinfeld.
11:31Not that there's anything wrong with that.
11:34OK, we will take some of your calls.
11:36We got a loaded guest list.
11:39Isabel Brown is going to join us.
11:40She got ripped on The View for having the incredibly controversial opinion that it's good
11:44to get married and have kids and you should do it.
11:47Babies are good. How babies are good?
11:49Have them. Congressman Chip Roy is going to join us.
11:52He'll give us the latest from Capitol Hill on the chaos there as the Senate
11:56has abandoned town and the House is still trying to get things done.
12:00And then, Buck, I'm super excited for this.
12:01The head of NASA, Jared Isaacman, is going to join us as NASA is poised
12:07to launch a sort of a circle, I think, of the moon tomorrow as part
12:13of the new goal to put a colony on the moon, which is, for those
12:18of us out there that are kind of a little bit interested in space or
12:22sci -fi, a new, unique and, I think, achievable goal.
12:27But he is the head of NASA and he'll be on with us in the
12:30third hour of the program, bottom of that hour.
12:32I think we'll have a fun conversation with him.
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13:42Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
13:45We've got a lot to get into today.
13:48Even had a very interesting Supreme Court decision come down.
13:52And, Clay, we haven't talked yet about the birthright citizenship Supreme Court oral arguments that
13:59have happened. That is a big one.
14:01That is one of the – it probably will be – I don't know.
14:05Is there a bigger Supreme Court case of this term for at least the Trump
14:09administration and policy to consider than that one?
14:12So, we've got a lot of things happening and going on.
14:16I will tell you today, Clay, that I am – this is in the not
14:20as big of a thing – but I am in Palm Beach area today.
14:26And I saw our friends from Tunnel to Towers last night.
14:29Saw Frank Siller. Saw Mr.
14:32Sean Hannity. Dennis Quaid was there.
14:37Good golfer. Often at the Tunnel to Towers events.
14:40He's a good golfer. See, I have to – you're the – by the way,
14:42they all ask me, they're like, when are you going to learn golf?
14:44Because you're our golf representative of the show.
14:47I don't play. I don't understand.
14:49I'm saying, why can't there be tennis charity events like this?
14:53Like, it's always golf everywhere.
14:54You need old guys that don't have to have a lot of athleticism to be
14:58able to do things for a long time.
14:59And golf is the one that you can hang on to for longer than most
15:03sports, I think, is the easy answer.
15:06This is probably a time to admit – because we're going to talk a lot
15:09about serious stuff in Iran and world peace and the economy and everything in a
15:13moment here. You know, I've been nursing a little bit of an injury on my
15:17arm, and people – it's actually technically tennis elbow.
15:21And people have been saying, well, you must have gotten this from tennis.
15:24No, Clay, it's worse than that.
15:27I got it from Padel.
15:30What is Padel, you might ask?
15:32I wonder how many of you have even heard of this.
15:35Padel is a sports ball game that is incredibly popular, particularly in Latin America and
15:43– parts of Latin America and Europe.
15:46It was invented in Mexico.
15:49It is most probably common or, like, most beloved in Spain, actually.
15:54It's rapidly growing all over the world.
15:56It's a little bit like tennis mixed with squash, mixed with pickleball, I think, all
16:03together into one. And that is how I got injured.
16:06But I will tell you, we're going to – it's enormously popular in Miami.
16:10I'd never even heard of it until I moved to Miami.
16:12There's Padel places opening all over the place.
16:15We're going to have to get you on a Padel court.
16:17I've realized this is – we're going to have to get some video.
16:19Clay, don't – I don't even know what this is.
16:23This feels like your pistachio ice cream take, although I will say the fact that
16:28it's popular in Latin America.
16:29This feels like a very bougie way to play sports.
16:38Would this be the anti -football?
16:40Is that a fair way, anti -American football sport, if you had to select one?
16:45And it's a lot of Latin American folks or Americans of Latin descent that I
16:52know who play this also play polo, so I think that tells you something.
16:56Yeah, that's super. I wouldn't even think of polo because it's so high -end.
17:00Nobody's ever invited me, thankfully, to get on a horse and try to ride around
17:04and hit something. But I have to stop making fun of...
17:07I think that would be a disaster.
17:07I have to stop making fun of Producer Ali and Pickleball now because I've crossed
17:11over and started playing Padel.
17:13So this is my thing now.
17:15I want to do a Padel fundraiser for Tunnel to Towers because there'll be a
17:20lot of super rich guys from Latin America and Spain and stuff who can be
17:24there and can write checks.
17:25Because I can't golf. You are a golf representative.
17:28How would you describe your golf swing?
17:31I would describe it as awful.
17:37To sum it up in one word, it's a little bit better than Charles Barkley's
17:41golf swing, but I would describe it as awful on a basic level.
17:47What is your handicap? If we're going with them, what would you say?
17:51I think I would be like a 20.
17:53I don't get to play that much.
17:54I am not a good golfer.
17:56Well, better than me. And they were like, where's Clay?
17:59We need someone to actually play golf.
18:00I'm like, what about Padel?
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18:55Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
18:58We've got some great guests coming your way in the next couple of hours.
19:01But we have got tomorrow, Buck, you mentioned, that the Supreme Court is going to
19:05be hearing oral arguments on whether birthright citizenship should or should not be the law
19:10of the land. And look, I'm not optimistic that the Supreme Court is going to
19:15be willing to do what I think they should do, which is say that this
19:19whole concept of that citizenship by soil, as opposed to citizenship by blood, which we'll
19:26get into some tomorrow, is going to be really interesting to hear how those questions
19:31come down. But in the meantime, we did have a Supreme Court ruling that came
19:37down 8 -1 a little bit earlier today, right before, in fact, we came on
19:42the air. 8 -1 Supreme Court ruling saying that a law in Colorado which tried
19:48to ban conversion therapy, which we'll get into a bit, was unconstitutional.
19:54The only justice that lined up and said, hey, I think this ban was constitutional,
20:02was Ketanji Brown -Jackson. And even Elena Kagan went after Ketanji Brown -Jackson, who filed
20:11a 35 -page dissent. And it is, look, I think the last curse of the
20:18Joe Biden era is unfortunately going to be with us for a generation plus, which
20:25is he put a wholly unqualified, far left -wing politician, not a judge, far left
20:32-wing politician on the court, and even left -wingers on the court are, I think,
20:38frankly, embarrassed that Ketanji Brown -Jackson is there.
20:43And, Buck, even Elena Kagan, who, whatever you want to say about Elena Kagan, she
20:47is a smart, principled, leftist jurist, but understands how the law works.
20:53I think former dean of Harvard Law School, you may not agree with her, but
20:58you're going to read her opinion and say there is a foundation of constitutional jurisprudence
21:05undergirding her opinions. That is not occurring here.
21:08And, unfortunately, Ketanji Brown -Jackson basically is going to be worthless for generations.
21:16But just to give everybody a little bit of a background on this, right?
21:20So, the Supreme Court, Clay mentioned, 8 -1 decision, Chiles versus Salazar.
21:26Chiles v. Salazar. And so, Kaylee Chiles was a licensed Christian mental health counselor in
21:32Colorado who was giving talk therapy to people and she was working with clients who
21:39wanted to reduce same -sex attraction.
21:44The state of Colorado has a...
21:47It had a law in place, and there are other states with this, that prohibits
21:52people who are, this was a licensed therapist, prohibits licensed therapists from working with people
21:59at their request to talk through and reduce same -sex attraction or gay attraction, right?
22:07And meanwhile, they also had a law, this is the part of it that was
22:11really telling you what's going on.
22:13By the way, what happened to Colorado?
22:14I used to think of Colorado as like cowboys in the mountains, and now it's
22:20like communists running wild. It's just gotten completely, the politics there have gone.
22:26Yeah, and remember, Buck, the Colorado Supreme Court is such a mess that they said
22:32it was constitutional. Everybody forgets.
22:34Democrats tried to take Trump off the ballot in Colorado.
22:38Supreme Court said you can do this.
22:40The United States Supreme Court said 9 -0 you can't.
22:44It's hard to get 9 -0.
22:469 -0, I know. Even Jackson.
22:47Think about that. Even Jackson was like, guys.
22:49Even crazy Ketanji Brown Jackson was like, guys, you went too far.
22:51Think about how stupid that is.
22:53A state thought that they could remove a person from the ballot who had no
22:58criminal conviction and no constitutional bar to running?
23:01Think about how insane that is.
23:03Yes. I mean, did anyone actually ever, and there were people going on MSNBC, I'm
23:07a legal scholar, you know, I defend this, you know.
23:10Anyway, back to this gender therapy or same -sex attraction therapy stuff.
23:15Clay, if somebody went in, though, seeking therapy to make them more trans, that was
23:23under the law, yes. You could make somebody more, you could push somebody down the
23:27trans path, but you could not push them back from the edge of the gay
23:32path, essentially. And so the law was clearly, I mean, this is obviously First Amendment
23:38discrimination. There's no, eight justices found this to be First Amendment discrimination.
23:46And so if you tell somebody, hey, maybe you're not gay, maybe you're just in
23:57a moment of confusion in your sexuality, you know, you're, but this was for minors,
24:02mind you. So these are including teenagers.
24:04Maybe you're not gay. Maybe you're having a moment.
24:06Let's talk this through. That's like doing a, a unchangeable surgery on somebody, which, by
24:13the way, they do on the other side for the trans people.
24:17They actually do surgery, but words here were being treated by Ketanji Brown Jackson.
24:23Jackson, I mean, she really is.
24:24She's the MSNBC comments section made into a Supreme Court justice.
24:28She is untethered to the law and unhinged when it comes to the Constitution.
24:35It kind of gave you a sense that there was a discomfort with her being
24:40on the Supreme Court, where a lot of times they're very collegial relationships, even across
24:45different perspectives on how to apply constitutional jurisprudence.
24:51I think Scalia and RBG were tight.
24:52That's a great example. They were very good friends, even though intellectually they disagreed very
24:58often. There was a acceptance of a principle disagreement on how to apply the law
25:05across, to Buck's point, Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, both very smart and had different
25:12readings. Elena Kagan, I think that there are a lot of people out there who
25:15say, hey, I may not agree with her, you know, renderings of judgment, but I
25:20trust the intellectual heft that she is bringing to bear on those opinions.
25:24When Amy Coney Barrett, Buck, I thought it was very significant.
25:29Amy Coney Barrett does not seem like the kind of person who wants to take
25:32a two by four to people very often.
25:33She seems like what she is, a mom who tries to be kind.
25:38And some of her responses to Ketanji Brown Jackson were the equivalent judicially of just
25:44throwing your hands up in the air and saying, I can't even stomach these arguments.
25:49They're embarrassing. They don't recognize any past precedent.
25:54And Elena Kagan kind of did that in this 8 -1 opinion.
25:58Again, on the left, Elena Kagan kind of saying, like, come on, this is an
26:04utterly ridiculous. To your point, Buck, I think it's a, you know, blue sky Reddit
26:10board far left wing take.
26:13And that's fine if you have too far left wing takes.
26:16But being a judge who does this is just, again, I think the final, final
26:23awful echo and reverberation of the Biden administration that unfortunately is going to be with
26:29us for generations. And he told us that he was going to limit the limit,
26:36the pool to black female jurists, which, given the actual interpretation of the Constitution in
26:43most recent years, is really not OK.
26:46Not allowed to do that.
26:47I don't know how you what you can do about the legality of such a
26:50thing. But, Clay, if you if we put out a job, let's just say we
26:54put out a job opening for this show and we said, hey, guys, great opening.
26:59You know, we got we got great producers here.
27:01We're going to have a fabulous team for you to work with.
27:04We're only hiring black women for this job.
27:06Yeah, we would be sued and we would lose.
27:09Yes. No question. And by the way, rightly so.
27:11Like, that would be a clear violation.
27:15of of uh the standards that you can use under the constitution and under non
27:19-discrimination and employment that's how he set up a supreme court appointment he said it
27:25out loud too it's not it's not like we're we're surmising this he said it
27:29out loud and and you have somebody who is just i i agree with you
27:33by the way i don't i see things differently than kagan but i respect that
27:37she's at least trying to stay within the law yeah katanji brown jackson you know
27:43what she's going to do more or less based upon what your standard msnbc watching
27:49leftist wants to happen yeah which is not the way it's supposed to be yeah
27:54and again it's not even a judge opinion it's just crazy left -wing opinion and
28:02i said this at the time katanji brown jackson's appointment under federal law was unconstitutional
28:08what do i mean by that you are not allowed under federal law to say
28:13i am only going to consider a black woman for a job first of all
28:18it's demeaning to the black woman because if you pick a black woman for a
28:22job and you've eliminated what is it 97 i think of lawyers 98 maybe even
28:30were eliminated on their face when biden said i'm only going to pick a black
28:34woman so you're saying i'm only picking a judge from two percent of the legal
28:39community and then he picked one that was not particularly uh astute or talented in
28:47the black female legal community can we can we unpack this first and let's unpack
28:51this for a second he picked her she had been a judge before okay did
28:56she have a leg up in that appointment because she was a black woman yes
28:59the only reason she got the job in the first place was because she was
29:03a black woman right but i'm saying yeah you know just keep keep working it
29:06back yeah oh oh she went she went to harvard law okay what were her
29:11lsats yeah did she have a like we we know that that tradition that generally
29:15speaking overwhelmingly black students of her age uh that went to harvard would have had
29:22a tremendous benefit from their race that as we know the supreme court has actually
29:27said you were not supposed to have you're not supposed to have that that's wrong
29:30so you can work it all the way back and people because when you'll say
29:34oh she's not qualified they'll say well she was a judge before and she went
29:37to harvard law yeah well did she have those things because she was a black
29:40female these are these are entirely valid questions which i know until recently we're told
29:46we're not allowed to ask these questions but actually no you can ask these questions
29:49um because like we said elena kagan is a uh is is a you know
29:54a gay woman she's a lesbian um she's a very talented lawyer and she's very
29:59very smart yeah so it's not about identity but the left makes it about identity
30:05there are black women who would be great on the supreme court there are black
30:09women who would absolutely deserve that job i don't think that uh katanji brown jackson
30:15is one of them i agree and that's just you know observing what we can
30:19all see here because they they never say look at the look at the depth
30:23and clarity of the opinions i know they have staffs but the opinions put out
30:27on her look at the depth and clarity clay she speaks like five times as
30:30much as all the other jurors together or something i mean it's not that much
30:33but it's a lot well and again that goes to i think that she has
30:37broken a lot of the collegial norms i think a lot of people are fed
30:41up with her on the court and i think even leftists are of the opinion
30:47like elena kagan is where they just kind of roll their eyes and say this
30:51is a poor choice and she's going to be there buck for 30 more years
30:54a very long time well but also it's a reminder biden we got sold on
30:59biden to the degree that we were actually sold on him just let's let's let's
31:03just take let's move past that for a second you know the country was sold
31:07on biden so to speak as the uniter clay and as he's not a radical
31:11well what better what better example can you have of the actual radicalism and practice
31:17of the biden administration which we could sit here and we did for years talk
31:22about it but whether it's the covet stuff or the spending or the trans policies
31:26or the wide open border joe biden was the trojan horse for far left obamaist
31:34policy if you will and there's no better example of him being a far left
31:39figurehead than katanji brown jackson that's the supreme that's the moderate supreme court justice that
31:45we get from a biden administration also remember that he picked kamala harris after saying
31:51he would pick a woman as his running mate and eliminating all men from consideration
31:56and then he took it a step further by saying i will only pick a
32:01black woman um and uh and the result is i think we have ended up
32:06with the least qualified most political supreme court justice in any of our lives and
32:11i was just looking up to see how old she is um and unfortunately buck
32:16we're gonna probably have her if uh if age is any uh expectation for another
32:2230 years i would also point this out as we go to break here supreme
32:27court requires a majority senate approval there is a possibility out there that republicans could
32:34lose the supreme could lose the senate in november and that trump basically would not
32:39be able to get anybody appointed just like with root Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who thought,
32:45hey, I'm going to live forever and left behind the opportunity to have Obama be
32:49able to appoint her replacement.
32:52Look at this situation right now.
32:54We've got Clarence Thomas around 75.
32:57We've got Alito around 74, if I'm not mistaken.
33:01It may be five or six years until Republicans have what they have now, which
33:07is control of the Senate and the presidency to be able to control who gets
33:11on the Supreme Court. Everybody who gets into their 70s seems to think that they're
33:15going to live forever and be healthy forever.
33:17The data often reflects that's not true at all.
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34:49Patriots, radio hosts, a couple of regular guys.
34:54Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
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35:01All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck.
35:04We have a lot that we're going to be getting into with you today.
35:08We're going to update you also on the TSA and DHS funding situation because it
35:15feels like that's getting better, but it hasn't come to a full resolution yet.
35:18We'll talk to Texas Representative Chip Roy about that.
35:21But it's, you know, Clay, we get to this point where I think it just
35:25becomes very, oh, wait, actually, I had something I want to throw in the mix.
35:29I'll hold that for a second.
35:31Democrats just made a lot of people ruin their vacations and ruin their day, hundreds
35:36of thousands of people for no reason.
35:38Yeah, except that they're bitter, that they're not in power.
35:40Just I hope everyone remembers that because they're getting nothing out of this other than
35:43the bitterness that they spread everywhere, because that's what Democrats do.
35:47But some a bit of good news.
35:49I'm here in West Palm.
35:50I meant to mention this the first hour.
35:51Do you know what Ron DeSantis just signed?
35:54I did. I saw this, but tell the people it's a positive aviation story.
35:59Palm Beach International Airport is being officially renamed Donald J.
36:06Trump International Airport, which is just fantastic.
36:11I got to say, I love it.
36:12It should be named. I mean, what other airport would be named?
36:15This should be the airport name for him.
36:16And I'm also going to say this, Miami, your airport compared to Palm Beach Airport,
36:22Palm Beach International, Clay, is like private aviation compared to Miami.
36:26Miami Airport is like a bad day in a third world airport every day.
36:31It stinks. Palm Beach International, very civilized.
36:34That's why I also fly into Fort Lauderdale.
36:36It's a little bit of a difficult travel schedule sometimes, but it's way easier to
36:39get in and out of.
36:40Great guests, Isabel Brown, Chip Roy, Jared Isaacman of NASA still to come.
36:44Keep hanging with us. Next couple hours, rolling through.