Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Be a Normal Bro
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0:10Sexton Show. Starts right now.
0:12A lot of stuff going on up on Capitol Hill.
0:15We're going to be getting into some of that with you for sure.
0:19Given the fact that the Iran war is getting a whole lot of attention for
0:24obvious reasons. The Tulsi Gabbard testimony before Congress on global threats.
0:30Touching on things that we will want to discuss.
0:35So we'll get into that.
0:37We have some of the aftermath of the Joe Kent resignation.
0:40Speaking of national security from director of NCTC.
0:45More updates on Iran. The Save America Act.
0:49Which we have tried to bring up as often as we can here.
0:54Because we get a tremendous amount of people saying that we should be discussing it
1:01more. Okay, we'll talk about it.
1:03We'll talk about it. It's very important.
1:04We want election security, too.
1:06It looks like it is on the way to defeat, my friends.
1:09So I guess we'll continue to have this discussion.
1:12But soon is the majority leader.
1:15The people in his state elected him to the Senate to represent the Republican Party.
1:19And they seem to, rather, the Republicans seem to be on a pathway here to
1:25not passing the Save Act.
1:27So that is where it is.
1:28If that changes, we'll let you know.
1:30But we'll give you some updates on that.
1:33Something that is a little bit of a surprise to me, and perhaps it shouldn't
1:36have been, was how things were going up on Capitol Hill for the Mark Wayne
1:41Mullen confirmation as DHS secretary.
1:44Now, Clay, one thing that I think is quite clear at this point is, given
1:50what just happened at DHS, which was leadership failure at all levels, let's just be
1:56honest about it. It looked buffoonish, unethical, and screwed things up in the way Minneapolis
2:03was handled with messaging. Then, Kristi Noem had to go, and Trump told her, time
2:09to go. And now she's on some advisory security committee or something that no one's
2:14ever heard of before. So that was an appropriate move by the Trump administration.
2:19This is maybe the single most important thing.
2:22Deportations might be the number one promise of the Trump administration for this second term.
2:29It's happening, but it is not happening at the rate that was promised.
2:33Let's be honest about this.
2:35And there needs to be a whole lot more going on between now and the
2:39midterm election. With all that, I thought that DHS secretary's confirmation would be a pretty
2:45straightforward partisan issue. I knew Democrats were going to push Mark Wayne Mullen on this,
2:50Senator Mullen. I knew that.
2:52But things got testy with Senator Rand Paul, who, I might add, is joining us
2:58live on this program in a little bit.
3:00He wants to talk about this.
3:01I'm going to give you some sense of how this went.
3:04Let's start with, so, a little bit of background here.
3:08As you, many of you will recall, perhaps all of you, Rand Paul was assaulted
3:13by a Democrat neighbor and almost beaten to death.
3:17His lungs filled up with fluid.
3:19He was in the hospital.
3:20It was horrible. He got infections.
3:22It's terrible. Rand Paul's an older guy, and he was jumped and kicked and beaten
3:27on the ground by a maniac neighbor, almost killed.
3:30It's a really horrible thing.
3:31Now, this comes after Rand Paul was almost shot, by the way, by a Bernie
3:35Sanders supporter screaming, this is for health care at a baseball field.
3:38So, Rand Paul's been through some stuff.
3:39So, let's just be fair about that.
3:43I can understand he doesn't have a sense of humor about this because it's not
3:46funny. And here is what he said to Mark.
3:50He says that Mark Wayne Mullen has taken the position that this stuff is funny.
3:54This is cut, too. Listen to how this exchange went.
3:57You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me
4:01that the assault was justified.
4:03So, today, you'll have your chance.
4:05Today, I'll give you that chance to clear the record.
4:07Tell it to my face.
4:08If that's what you believe, tell it to me today.
4:11Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six
4:16ribs broken, and a damaged lung.
4:18Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it.
4:20And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a
4:25man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents.
4:31Explain to the American public how a man who has no regrets about brawling in
4:36a Senate committee can set a proper example for over 250 ,000 men and women
4:40who work at the Department of Homeland Security.
4:45Clay, I don't think Rand Paul's a yes vote.
4:48That I will say. I don't think that's happening, but we'll talk to the senator,
4:51the other senator, not Senator Mullen, later on in the program.
4:54Yeah, they don't like each other.
4:57And sometimes people don't like each other, and it is theatrical because they can go
5:03hang out afterwards and they have political disagreements.
5:07But personally, they get along quite well.
5:09And there's still a decent amount of that, I think, on Capitol Hill, not as
5:13much as there used to be.
5:15And honestly, I think that's an interesting question.
5:17Why people got along better on Capitol Hill in the 60s, 70s, 80s?
5:22It seems like the 90s and the early 2000s.
5:25It's my argument. It's my argument.
5:25would be social media, which has, to a large extent, created a lot of performative
5:31outrage that pays off. And so some people take it very seriously, even though for
5:37others it's still a form of kabuki theater, it feels like at times.
5:41But this is real. Rand Paul and Mark Wayne Mullen don't like each other.
5:48And usually you get, as we talked about, when this nomination basically was put forward,
5:54when Christine Oum was let go, we said, oh, Mark Wayne Mullen, he'll get confirmed
5:58relatively easily because the United States Senate tends to take care of its own.
6:02And I think that might factor in here a bit, Buck.
6:06I think that Rand Paul would feel more pressure to not get into a fight
6:12effectively over this if it were going to be a borderline situation, right?
6:18Pete Hegseth, for instance, needed the overall tie -breaking vote of J .D.
6:23Vance, if I remember correctly, in order to be confirmed as defense secretary.
6:28So if we're going to be in a situation like that, I think maybe things
6:31would be different. I think Mark Wayne Mullen will get multiple, probably, Democrat votes.
6:35Certainly we know he's going to get Fetterman, so it's not going to be particularly
6:38close. But, man, I'm interested to hear from Rand Paul at the next hour, you
6:45know, his basis for this perspective.
6:49We've had both those guys on.
6:51I'm in a spot where I feel like it kind of reflects what's also going
6:55on with media argue, Buck, where I tend to kind of like most people.
6:59And so when I see people that we're friends with throwing elbows at each other
7:04on social media, I kind of just wish that they weren't.
7:08That's my overall perspective here, too.
7:10I like Rand Paul and I like Mark Wayne Mullen.
7:13So I wish that they weren't, you know, engaged in verbal combat here in the
7:20Senate hearing. But I don't think it's fake.
7:21I think that Rand Paul and Mark Wayne Mullen don't like each other.
7:24And I think Mark Wayne Mullen came on our show a while back and said
7:28that, too. So that's just the reality.
7:32I think that the not liking each other thing, but we've said this as well.
7:35One time I remember it was quite clear.
7:38Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy do not like each other.
7:41It was a different thing on that stage.
7:44In the debate, there was venom associated with both of them.
7:48It wasn't just a disagreement.
7:50Right. It was. I mean, you can think about this with Democrats.
7:53Like Kamala basically said to Joe Biden, you're an old white racist.
7:56And then she became his VP.
7:58Like she just said it because she had to.
7:59She had to get some attention.
8:00And Biden was probably asleep with his eyes open.
8:02And so who cares? No, these guys look they have.
8:04They have personal beef. Mark Wayne Mullen addressed Rand Paul's comments.
8:07We have to play the other side of this for sure.
8:09This is cut three. Listen in.
8:14I simply address that. I said I could understand because of the behavior you were
8:18having that. I can understand why your neighbor by the neighbor did what he did.
8:23As far as my terms and snake in the grass, sir, I work around this
8:26room to try to fix problems.
8:28I've worked with many people in this room.
8:30Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us.
8:33I did address those remarks.
8:35I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth.
8:39And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't.
8:43I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise.
8:45I don't like that. But if I do have something to say, everybody in this
8:49room knows I'll come straight to you.
8:51I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind
8:54your back. It's not an apology.
8:59It's not an apology. That's for sure.
9:01It's kind of. I think he was making what he considered to be a joke.
9:06Right. If I were analyzing this, like, I don't think that Mark Wayne Mullen is
9:11actually in favor of random acts of violence.
9:15I don't. I think he was making a joke based on his relationship.
9:19A little bit of a cutting joke.
9:21Yes. And I also understand why if you're Rand Paul, you're like, hey, I got
9:27attacked by a crazy left wing lunatic.
9:29I don't think that that should be something that is joked about.
9:32Right. So that's where I kind of think they are.
9:35If I always say this, if I were in the Senate, I would vote for
9:39Mark Wayne Mullen. And I think I would enjoy working with Rand Paul, too, because
9:44I like both these guys.
9:45Does it surprise me that they have a dislike for each other?
9:50Not really. Right. Because I can see them being incredibly different individuals.
9:58Right. You know how the jocks and the nerds sometimes don't get along.
10:03But if you're a little bit in the middle between the two, you get along
10:06with both people. I think that that is this version of the of the Senate.
10:13And I just look, my general perspective, Buck, and we talked about this off air,
10:20is there's so many people that are truly putting forward awful decisions and have truly
10:28bad ideas for the country.
10:30That I think sometimes fighting with people who have subtle degrees of difference on how
10:35to get to better places is not a beneficial way to spend your time.
10:40Right. There's so to me, there are so many people throwing crazy things out there
10:45in terms of political on the left right now.
10:48That whether somebody has a bit of a different perspective on Iran than I do.
10:53I'm not willing to like put on boxing gloves and try to take them out
10:57over their perspective on that being wrong when there's so many people that are not
11:01even in good faith engaging in in in arguments on the left.
11:07Does that make sense? And I think a lot of you kind of get that.
11:09It kind of echoes the Ronald Reagan thing, which is, you know, thou shall not
11:13fight with another Republican. And clearly that's being violated here.
11:18Yeah. Clay and I try to have no enemies to the right because we're trying
11:20to save the country from the communists.
11:22I mean, that's a pretty that's how we honestly feel like I just don't I
11:25don't like getting into stuff with people that I agree with on 80, 90 percent
11:30of things. When I say again, I'll disagree with them, but attacking them, saying they're
11:33a bad person or I impugn their motives or whatever.
11:36We just this isn't something we've coordinated.
11:39We just both have similar personalities in this respect or similar approaches.
11:43That's just not really who we are as individuals or as a show.
11:48So Rand Paul, still pretty ticked off.
11:50This is good. I mean, I'm just telling you guys, it was fiery up there.
11:53This is cut five. And Mullen said that there was character assassination going on.
11:57Play five. And the days after the fight, you said, and I quote, sometimes people
12:01just need to be punched in the face.
12:03Is that still your opinion that political disputes can sometimes and often only be resolved
12:08by violence? No, I I don't.
12:12I don't always agree with that.
12:13I don't believe in political violence.
12:14I've made that very clear.
12:16But sometimes people do need me.
12:18Theoretically speaking, that's sir. I get it.
12:20It's about character assassination for you.
12:22That's the way this game is played.
12:23I understand it. And you are making this about you, which is fine.
12:26But that doesn't keep me as such character assassination when you were the one lauding
12:31the assault. Who do you think started that character assassination?
12:34I'm just repeating what you have done in character assassination.
12:38I'm repeating your support for the assault.
12:41So that's somehow something I started.
12:44No, sir. What I'm saying is you're adding a lot to it.
12:48Yeah, you know, it's not very good.
12:52You never know. You do.
12:53Be careful when you kick somebody when they're down, because they may be up at
12:56some point and have an opportunity to kick back.
12:58And that's what's going on here.
12:59I will say two things.
13:02Can you remember Democrats going after Democrats in hearings like this?
13:07Oh, I know. A lot of Republicans are about to come after us and say,
13:10like, but this is so terrible.
13:11This is what they're this is what your Republican senators are doing right now in
13:14the hearing, everybody. This is what is going on.
13:17I mean, I'm just presenting to you.
13:18This is the back and forth that you're getting where we're trying to put the
13:21most important after secretary of war, maybe secretary of state treasury, like top five position
13:28in the government. It should be all about the mission, Clay.
13:32So there Christie Noem lost her job, not because of Democrat criticism, but because John
13:38Kennedy, who was on this show, asked her a question about two hundred million dollars
13:43in advertising spending. And she answered it different than President Trump did.
13:48And that was it. Right.
13:50Well, she people allege that she lied and people are alleging that she lied under
13:53oath and she lied in a way that actually impugned President Trump.
13:57It was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
13:59But it was a Republican basically who got her on that issue.
14:04It was John Kennedy. And he said, hey, I'm going to go after him.
14:06My point on this is the knives are out.
14:11Right. And now you got Rand Paul going after Mark Wayne Mullen.
14:14I think what this is symptomatic of, Buck, is sometimes when you're in power, you
14:19have the luxury to feud over things that aren't as significant as when the other
14:24party is in power. Let me say this.
14:26This is my takeaway from all this, Clay, is guys, we are the Save Act
14:31is about to fail. We are running out of time.
14:34We need the best people in the important positions for the Trump agenda.
14:40And we need to get on this.
14:42The previous secretary of Homeland Security was a mistake.
14:46And nobody wanted to hear that at the time because it was all, oh, but
14:50Trump knows what he's doing.
14:51Yeah, he knows what he's doing, but he's not perfect.
14:52You need to have the best people in the best places.
14:56And that should be what the focus of this hearing is instead of.
14:59I mean, it was it was nasty.
15:01It was feisty. I mean, Senator Paul just tweeted.
15:05I mean, I'm assuming he's not voting for him.
15:07Senator Mullen tried to justify a violent attack on me.
15:10Now he wants to lead ICE and Border Patrol.
15:12You can't restore law and order with someone who has an anger problem.
15:16America deserves better. So that's a tweet that he just sent five minutes ago.
15:22So he's going to be on with us.
15:23Senator Rand Paul next hour.
15:25We'll talk about it. Stay with us, guy.
15:26And send in the questions.
15:27What questions do you want to ask to the senator?
15:29If we have a couple that are really powerful and we'll try to get to
15:32a couple of them. We've done that before.
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16:41back in clay travis buck sexton show sad to see venezuela beat the united states
16:48last night in miami great game fun event but there's other sad news buck probably
16:56didn't even know the results of that one buck i'm surprised that you were even
17:00able to get out of bed and come on the show today your boy joe
17:04scarborough had one hour of his show morning joe taken away how are you going
17:10to be able to recover as msnbc is panicked nobody's watching and your boy joe
17:15scarborough is getting demoted i had to pour out a little crock of coffee for
17:19my home slice joe scarborough this morning in in memoriam of the hour of the
17:25show that has now been chopped down it is it is a deeply sad experience
17:29i i really those of you there's only a few of you and by a
17:33few i mean probably i could count you on one hand who were rolling with
17:37me and rolling with joe and mika going into the 24 election it was amazing
17:43tv guys it was like a constant reality show inside of an insane asylum from
17:51like you know centuries past like it was crazy town great watching great watch yes
17:57oh my gosh the nazis are taking over uh anyway all right when the fbi
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18:54-824 -SAFE welcome back into clay and buck i want to talk about communists for
19:00a second because we were just talking about red on red fighting actually i get
19:05a little rant about this sometimes it is it is absurd that the republicans are
19:10the red party and the democrats of the blue party i really this is such
19:15a dirty take but it is accurate historically yes the republicans should be blue democrats
19:22should be red this all comes from tv news in like the 70s when they
19:28would just for election time put up different colors for the different parties i think
19:32at one point yellow actually even represent and then it just stuck so we basically
19:36let you know cbs news and abc news and whatever decide that we're going to
19:42have red and blue and that the democrats who are clearly the reds the commies
19:47the marxists the collectivists they are blue which is my favorite color so this always
19:52annoys me they should be red and instead here we are um but speaking of
19:58reds and commies james tallarico is running for senate in texas now i i have
20:07a lot of faith in the great people of texas wonderful state that they're not
20:12going to elect this guy but there also needs to be a message sent it
20:17is a flat -out absurdity that this is the candidate that they would run i
20:22would go so far as to say that james tallarico is more absurd as a
20:27possible senate representing texas than beto would have been which is this is this is
20:35taking a real swing i i think that's 100 correct and i don't know that
20:40democrats really knew what they were getting into when they put him forward you know
20:44beto looked good in his wrangler jeans and he had the cowboy boots at the
20:47campaign stops and you know he could kind of fake it a little bit he's
20:51like yo like i just just look want to do great things and you're like
20:55what does this guy even stand for but then he was like i'm gonna take
20:58away your ar -15 and texas was like no i don't think so so here
21:02we are with james tallarico this is a flashback to 2022 i want you to
21:08listen to the words of this senate democrat candidate and just enjoy play 29 we
21:15have i think heard more and more issues of animal welfare i think not just
21:20because it's the right thing to do and the moral thing to do but also
21:23it's as all of you know necessary to fight climate change it is now existential
21:28that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals
21:34in all aspects of society and so i i am proud to say that our
21:37campaign um has officially become a non -meat campaign so we um have we are
21:45uh we are only buying vegan products from from our local vegan businesses.
21:49The point is, I think all of us, not just policymakers, but everyone has to
21:54take personal responsibility in this effort.
21:57Clay, the entire audience, all the guys felt their estrogen levels rise.
22:02This guy, Tallarico, makes Beto O 'Rourke look like Conan the Barbarian by comparison.
22:08It is crazy. What do you think the odds are of anybody getting elected in
22:12statewide office in Texas who doesn't eat steak?
22:16This would be a great...
22:18Not just doesn't eat steak, has a moral ethical problem with the eating of steak.
22:25This guy might as well say cowboy hats look stupid.
22:28This guy is out of his mind.
22:31That's a really important point, but I just think in general, I don't think...
22:36Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there has been a statewide elected official who would refuse to
22:40eat steak. Like, I don't even think Texas would elect a vegetarian, much less someone,
22:45to your point, who actually believes that you have a moral obligation not to eat
22:50steak. This guy, I feel as if Republicans played total possum on him because as
23:01much as you want to say about Jasmine Crockett, and we have said a lot
23:05of negative things about Jasmine Crockett, I think Jasmine Crockett is more masculine than this
23:11guy. I think that she is more of a...
23:14And that's not an indictment on her.
23:16That's an indictment on him.
23:18I think that she is more of a normal Texan, and she's way out of
23:22the normal band, but I think she is actually more of the normal Texan than
23:28Tallarico. They really... It feels to me like Democrats talk themselves into the idea that
23:35he would appeal to people.
23:36And again, it comes back to the Tim Walls impact.
23:39Democrats so don't understand heterosexual men that they can't even comprehend what they could do
23:48to put forward someone to appeal to a heterosexual man.
23:52And it's like Walls. It's like Tallarico.
23:55They don't speak the language, and it actually is worse than if they didn't know
23:59anything at all. I want to offer you a theory on this, as the author
24:03of Balls. So I feel like there's expertise that has been clearly established on this
24:10matter. I think that... I'm not saying that what you're saying is in any way
24:16untrue. I agree with it.
24:17I think there's maybe another layer, though, and it's this, that a normal representation of
24:23a standard American heterosexual male is offensive to many parts of the Democrat Party coalition
24:34right now. And so, on the one hand, they don't get it.
24:38But on the other hand, they can't even really do it.
24:42Because to be a normal bro, you're going to upset the purple -haired, nose -ringed
24:49lunatics who are the street brigade of the Democrat Party and the online banshees trying
24:56to convince everybody that they're bigots and they're bad people if they're Republicans.
25:00You see what I mean?
25:00I don't even think... I think even if they knew what it was, they would
25:05worry about the depiction because it will upset people.
25:09I think that's totally true.
25:13I also think the analogy here would be, you know how sometimes when you think
25:18you speak the language, you actually end up in a worse place than if you
25:22just asked somebody to try and speak English with you?
25:25I don't know if you guys have ever been in this situation.
25:28I speak French very poorly.
25:31And when I was in France, when I would attempt to speak French, I would
25:36get in worse position than if I just asked them to speak English with me.
25:42And so, they have this inability to speak the language to such an extent that
25:48when they try to speak the language, they actually are in worse position than if
25:53they just said, hey, you know what?
25:55We really don't understand this.
25:56I was thinking about this last night, Buck, because the U .S.
25:59lost to Venezuela. Congrats to Venezuela.
26:02But the entire bar that I was at, I was at a sports bar.
26:06I took my kids. I was with a couple of buddies and they had their
26:08kids and we were all sitting around watching the game last night.
26:12Entire bar was going crazy for the U .S.
26:16during the course of this baseball game.
26:18There was a guy, I'm in Florida right now, there was a guy who wore
26:22an American flag cape to sit at the bar last night where we were.
26:28Okay? Tire bar is going crazy.
26:29I went in to go to the bathroom, you know, we're out on the patio
26:32and I, you know, kind of walk through and I look at everybody there and
26:36I just think, who's the Democrat that could sit at the bar and actually hang
26:40out with these guys and be normal?
26:43It's all dudes just wanting to watch a baseball game and root for America.
26:48How many Democrats right now could just sit at the bar and be normal at
26:54that bar with all of these normal dudes who may not even be particularly political
26:58at all, right? They're probably not paying attention to the SAVE Act.
27:01They're not paying attention to the day -to -day mechanics of politics, but ultimately they
27:06have to be spoken to.
27:08I don't know that there is a Democrat.
27:10Maybe it's Wes Moore, right?
27:12Maybe it's Gavin Newsom. It's certainly not AOC.
27:15We know. It's not Kamala.
27:17It's not Gretchen Whitmer. It's not J .B.
27:19Pritzker, right? Like, you can ask, not Andy Beshear.
27:23You can run through and just be like, that guy can't have a beer at
27:26the bar and be normal.
27:28That's an issue, right? If you're, look, if you wonder how you lost men, how
27:33many normal Democrat elected officials could have a beer at the bar and root for
27:37the U .S. to win a sporting event?
27:39I think they are out to lunch.
27:41I think they are totally lost on this.
27:43And until they recognize that they don't speak the language, they're actually going to be
27:48in a worse place. They're going to be like me trying to speak French where
27:51I'm actually worse off than if I just ask them to try to speak English
27:55to me. And they won't even recognize that they have the problem.
27:59And so I do think the result is you end up with Tallarico.
28:03And I think that Republicans played possum on this because the minute Tallarico won, you
28:10suddenly saw that they had all of this opposition research that they just poured out
28:15there. And I actually think it's a little bit of an indictment of Jasmine Crockett
28:19that she wasn't able to get her team to uncover all this craziness.
28:24Now, maybe her team decided actually our base wants a lot of this craziness.
28:29And that was the reason they had it and they didn't feel like they could
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30:10The Team 47 Podcast. Trump highlights from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern in the
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30:23Welcome back in. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton's show.
30:26Senator Rand Paul is going to join us in the next hour as on Capitol
30:30Hill, the discussion about whether Mark Wayne Mullen will be the next DHS secretary, which
30:35we believe he will be, is currently underway in earnest.
30:38Can I just be clear, though?
30:39It's really important. This is a really important job.
30:42So, and unfortunately, this was, this is among, a lot of you would say, the
30:48way the Epstein files were handled, the Epstein files have now come out as far
30:51as I understand it. There was mishandling of that, too.
30:55For me, I think the leadership of DHS may be the single biggest whiff of
31:01the first 12 months. Because, guys, Minneapolis, we pull back.
31:06Minneapolis is now all you're hearing about from these Democrats, and this is what, you
31:09know, the whole thing. It was a big, it was a blunder.
31:12It was a blunder from the people running that, running that shop.
31:15And we need new leadership, Clay, that gets the job done.
31:18Is there a more important thing than deportation, securing the border, and changing the trajectory
31:23of illegal immigration in this country?
31:25I don't think so. I don't think there is something that's more important as a
31:28Trump agenda item than that.
31:30Yeah. So I'm, I'm pretty frustrated with how it's gone up to this point.
31:34The border securing, amazing. That, that was something that we got done the first 90
31:39days. So if we want to talk things that are alarming, there are a lot
31:44of them out there. What I would say is particularly alarming to me is we're
31:50now into mid to late March.
31:53Soon, we will be into early summer, and Congress will just shut down for the
31:59campaign season. And if Republicans don't retain the House and or the Senate, then we're
32:07in significant, just basically gridlock for the next two years.
32:13Nothing is going to happen.
32:15So if Republicans don't get through things now, then basically, I'm just being honest with
32:22you all, nothing's going to happen for two years.
32:24The 2028 election starts in December, my friends.
32:29Yes. Think about that. The 2028 election begins at the end of this year.
32:36So this is really important.
32:38It is time sensitive. The agenda and people are like, we got a VIP email
32:42from Matthew. Please ask Senator Paul.
32:43We got a VIP email from Matthew.
32:43We got a VIP email from Matthew.
32:44What are you doing to get the SAVE Act passed?
32:46We'll ask him. It's not going to pass.
32:50That's it. Because the way that it'd have to get passed is they get rid
32:54of the filibuster. They're not willing to do that.
32:55It's not going to pass.
32:57I think that's correct. I can sit here and complain about it, and we have,
33:00but we're not senators. We're certainly not 60 senators.
33:03Yeah. And I think that just ties in with what are they going to do?
33:07We know what Democrats are going to do if they win the House.
33:10I was looking today on Polymarket.
33:12Look, there's a 70 % chance Trump is going to be impeached again.
33:16If Democrats win the House in lockstep, they are going to go impeach President Trump,
33:22and we're going to have the multi -month charade.
33:25And you may say, well, this is a total joke, and it is, and we
33:28agree with you. But they're going to shut down the House and the Senate to
33:31have another trial on President Trump.
33:34They're going to shut down everything.
33:36And again, this is why I say, look, the House is important.
33:40Anyway, the Senate is, to me, has got to be the ultimate Maginot line, so
33:49to speak. That didn't go well.
33:50Although that didn't work out so great, as we know.
33:52Historically, it did not. But we've got to have, what is the most successful wall
33:56of all time? The Great Wall of China.
33:58The Great Wall of China.
33:59Also, by the way, kind of a fabrication after the fact, not really that successful.
34:03The Mongols kick their asses.
34:04What is the most successful defense line ever?
34:09That's a good military history question.
34:11Maybe they need to have a Cemetery Ridge, third -day Battle of Gettysburg, bulwark, which
34:20used to be a good word before those crazy people took it over, in order
34:24to rebut a charge. And this is why I've said, a lot of people, Supreme
34:29Court, Clarence Thomas, 75. Justice Alito, 74.
34:35We may not have the ability to have a president of the same party as
34:39the Senate for another four or five years.
34:41You saw what happened with Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
34:43We told you guys to enjoy that first year of Trump's incredible wins and just
34:47running up the scoreboard and all that stuff, because it does not last.
34:50There will be the fight ahead.
34:52That is for sure. Clay got me excited about history there for a second.
34:55Some of you are writing in about this.
34:57To be clear, for much of U .S.
34:58history on the red -blue phenomenon, blue was, of course, the color of the Union
35:03during the Civil War. Blue represented the Union.
35:06Blue was the color of the Republican Party.
35:08More often than not, although there was no standard system, it was color TV that
35:12changed this. In 1976, Ford v.
35:16Carter, blue was suddenly for Republicans.
35:18Red was for Democrats. And this followed the older convention.
35:23But then guess what? They changed it.
35:24Some of you pointed this out.
35:252 ,000 election. Red states on the screen after the disputed election.
35:30Republican, George Bush. Blue states, Al Gore.
35:33And then all the networks followed suit, Clay.
35:34And that's how we got red state, blue state.
35:37The Democrat Party should be the reds.
35:39I'm just saying. Maybe. I don't know.
35:42What would happen if one station just flipped it?
35:46Like if Fox News just said, hey, you know what?
35:48Red, blue. We're going back to the historic.
35:50They went full Department of War on this.
35:52I kind of like that idea.
35:53Because the Democrats are the commies.
35:55They should be red. Blue is the greatest color, in my opinion.
35:57And blue is what the Republican Party has always stood for.
36:00So there you go. When we come back, we'll give you updates on Iran.
36:04We will also continue to talk about the Mark Wayne Mullen hearing.
36:08We've got Senator Rand Paul scheduled to join us.
36:10Some good news. Murder rate hit 125 -year low.
36:14I think we should continue to hammer that home.
36:16D .C. crime. Murder rate has collapsed.
36:19I'll hit you with some of those numbers if you want something positive.
36:22We'll also jump back into a conversation we've been having, which I think is very
36:26significant. Kathy Hochul is now begging rich people to move back to New York.
36:31Did you see this, Buck, as the overall budget is collapsing in New York State
36:37and in New York City?
36:38And our good friend Joy Behar says Trump is doing to Europe the same thing
36:43that Adolf Hitler did to Europe.
36:45That's real. That's the view.
36:47We'll have some fun with it.
36:48Thanks for hanging with us on Clay and Buck.