Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Jan 20 2026

Summary

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The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show

Daily Review – January 20, 2026

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Episode Overview

On this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton dive into the biggest stories in news, politics, and current events. The main themes revolve around President Trump's first year in his second term—his accomplishments, ongoing challenges, and a special focus on the unexpected international fracas over Greenland. They also dissect the dynamics at the Davos conference, engage with U.S. economic and domestic data, and end with a critical look at recent commentary from "The View".

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Trump’s “Greenland Gambit” and Davos

[01:26–17:41, 54:10–62:53]

• Greenland: From Sideshow to Center Stage

  • Trump’s push to acquire Greenland is no longer treated as a joke—prediction markets give nearly a 50% chance of U.S. control over part of Greenland by the end of 2026.
  • Trump insists the current title Denmark holds over Greenland is historically flimsy:

    “They have to have this done. They can’t protect it. … Denmarks are wonderful people, but they don’t even go there.” – Clay Travis imitating Trump, [05:26]

  • The administration is leveraging military presence and historical treaties but aims for full U.S. sovereignty, eyeing mineral riches and strategic long-term value.
  • NATO’s symbolic show of force in Greenland is seen as a weak brushback to U.S. ambitions:

    “They sent a few people … to guard against Russia. But you know, NATO’s been warning Denmark for about 20 years now about the Russian threat. And it’s not only Russia, it’s also China.” – Clay Travis, [10:08]

  • Trump frames the negotiation as the “art of the deal”—starting with grand ambitions to reset what’s considered a compromise.

• European Backlash & Davos Drama

  • Davos sees European leaders resolute that Greenland is “non-negotiable.”

    “The sovereignty and integrity of [Greenland’s] territory is non negotiable.” – Ursula von der Leyen, [56:54]

  • Danish parliamentarian warns of war if the U.S. uses force (though hosts scoff at the idea):

    “It would be a war and we would be fighting against each other. … We know Americans are stronger than us, but it is our duty to defend our land and our people.” – Rasmus Jarlov, [58:35]

• Clay & Buck’s Take

  • They propose that a democratic process (cash payouts/vote) would allow Greenlanders to opt for U.S. territorial status, drawing on precedent from the 1917 U.S. purchase of the Virgin Islands.
  • Bulk of Greenland’s current value is in shrimp, but Trump projects future mineral and strategic importance.
  • The U.S. would respect self-determination—buy, not seize.

2. Davos: American and Global Leadership

[10:50–13:50]

• Gavin Newsom on the World Stage

  • Newsom calls for global leaders to “stop being complicit” and criticizes posturing at Davos, using colorful language:

    “I should have brought up a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns and handing ... Nobel prizes ... It’s just pathetic.” – Gavin Newsom, [11:47]

  • Clay teases Newsom as a top Democratic contender for 2028, joking about his grandstanding style:

    “Gavin Newsom feels like he’s playing evil Keanu Reeves.” – Buck Sexton, [12:39]

• European Optics

  • Playful ribbing on Macron’s sunglasses (“Is this a Bono thing?”) to highlight the theatricality of the summit.

3. Trump’s Year One, Term Two: Review

[23:04–34:05, 27:28–29:54]

• Domestic Achievements

  • Clay lists eight “America First” victories, emphasizing border security (now so secure it’s not discussed), record-high stock prices, 4.3% GDP, historically low inflation, reductions in murder and fentanyl deaths, lower mortgage rates, and lower gas prices.
  • A Twitter poll of listeners showed 81% giving Trump an A or B for his first year.
  • Staff continuity and improved management over the first term; key figures (e.g., Marco Rubio, J.D. Vance) are effective and stable.

• Cultural Tone Shift

  • Less infighting and defensive posture compared to 2017-2018 (“Russia collusion drama”).
  • One critique: The Pam Bondi/Epstein document mishap—files still unreleased, transparency needed (“biggest unforced error of the first year”).

4. Tariffs and Supreme Court Headwinds

[34:05–35:57]

• Treasury Secretary Scott Besant argues the Supreme Court won’t strike down Trump’s signature tariffs, but Clay is nervous that this may be a setback.

5. Media Culture: The View and “Victimhood”

[39:50–50:10]

• Pam Grier’s Dubious Claim on Lynching
  • On "The View," actress Pam Grier claims lynchings in Ohio (where she grew up) were so common in the 1950s her mother warned her not to look at bodies hanging in trees.
  • Clay and Buck fact-check: last lynching in Ohio was in 1911, 38 years before Grier was born, calling her story “totally untrue.”
  • Buck:

    “Victim status is very desirable … the left is so deeply enmeshed in this ideology they don’t even recognize exaggeration. … However, your oppression narrative must be accepted.” – [41:06]

  • Clay:

    “Pam Greer is marinating in something that never happened. … There is a profound, desperate hope to be a victim in left wing culture.” – [50:10]

  • Discussion of historical data on lynchings, their racial breakdown, and the distortion of historical context in current discourse.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Greenland:

  “When it was initially ridiculed ... now ends up looking like a brilliant decision.” – Clay Travis on U.S. acquisition strategies, likening Greenland to Alaska, [07:56]
  “You can be rich and American, or you can be cold and Danish.” – Buck Sexton, [59:49]

• On Staff and Trump 2.0:

  “There was a lot of, ‘Oh, it's not his fault, it's the staff’ … You don’t hear any of that now. It’s a totally different … the transformation of the experience level.” – Buck Sexton, [27:49]

• On Culture & Victimhood:

  “Victim narratives are so important to people who are of the leftist mindset … Oppression narratives must be accepted by others.” – Buck Sexton, [41:06]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:26 | Indiana/Miami championship game, Trump’s attendance & beginning of Year Two | | 04:38 | Greenland becomes center of international attention | | 05:24 | Trump’s stance and the art-of-the-deal framing | | 09:50 | NATO’s minimal response to U.S. moves on Greenland | | 10:50 | Gavin Newsom’s Davos speech, world leadership critique | | 23:04 | Review of Trump’s Year One accomplishments | | 27:28 | Improved staff continuity and tone vs. first Trump term | | 33:37 | Only major blunder: Pam Bondi-Epstein documents | | 34:05 | Tariffs, Scott Besant, and Supreme Court concerns | | 39:50 | Pam Grier’s lynching claim on The View critiqued | | 54:10 | Ursula von der Leyen: “Greenland non negotiable” | | 58:35 | Danish MP threatens to defend Greenland militarily | | 59:49 | U.S. would buy Greenlanders’ consent, draw on U.S. Virgin Islands precedent | | 62:34 | Structure of U.S. territorial law, why it would apply to Greenland |

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Conclusion

This episode captures Clay and Buck at their blend of political analysis and irreverence. The Greenland saga showcases Trump’s penchant for disruptive negotiation, creating new international realities. Domestically, they paint a picture of a more effective and stable Trump administration in its sophomore year, and use cultural flashpoints like "The View" to critique broader trends in American political narrative. For listeners—whether or not you heard the episode—this summary covers all the essential arguments, anecdotes, and takes that shaped the day’s conversation.

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Transcript

[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Well said.

[Clay Travis]

I like that word. Thank you. Thank you. It is definitely causing a hullabaloo. You have various heads of state who are getting quite huffy and the Wall Street Journal here writing that Trump doubles down on Greenland ahead of Davos arrival. He is making it. He is making it a thing that does not just go away. I do believe at some point we might have to do a show from Greenland and go check out the Greenlanders ourself. But we'll put a pin in that for now here. If you want to know how Trump feels about the whole situation, here it is. This is cut to talking about why does this belong to the people that it has belonged to? Play 2, what do you plan to say to European leaders in Dallas when.

[Buck Sexton]

They push back on your Greenland plan?

[Clay Travis]

Well, I don't think they're going to push back too much.

[Buck Sexton]

Look, we have to have it.

[Clay Travis]

They have to have this done. They can't protect it. Denmark, they're wonderful people and I know the leaders are very good people, but they don't even go there.

[Buck Sexton]

And you know, because the boat went.

[Clay Travis]

There 500 years ago and then left. That doesn't give you title to property. So we'll be talking about it with the various people. Clay, he is not backing off this at all. In fact, he's making it a front.

[Buck Sexton]

And center issue at Davos, the prediction markets, which are becoming more and more of a narrative defining prospect in pretty much all facets of life. This morning, Buck, I was looking 47% chance that Trump takes control of some part of the country of Greenland. Now, again, that's the way that this is phrased. At some point in 2026, basically 50, 50 when this all started, do you remember when we started talking about this and everybody sort of treated it as sort of a outlandish joke that was not actually in any way likely to occur in. Now we have moved into the could this happen phase. And this is a lot of times what Trump does, right? He throws something out there that people think is outrageous, that they think is outlandish, that they think there is no way it could ever happen. And then he just stays maniacally fixated on, remains in his purview, and he keeps advancing closer and closer to it. And I know he would probably argue this is a part of the art of the deal, because if you start with aggressive posturing that seems highly unlikely, then at some point a middle ground that would have seemed unlikely starts to feel like a compromise position, if that makes sense. And so I, I don't know exactly how this is going to shake out for all the reading that I've done. Buck, the treaty that we have in place with Greenland right now, which was primarily enforced and utilized during World War II and is actually quite expansive in terms of the rights that it would give to the United States in terms of military bases, access to the land. I think what Trump really wants, though, is complete and total control because he wants the long running value of the minerals. I think he's looking at Alaska as the precept when it was initially ridiculed and now ends up looking like a brilliant decision.

[Clay Travis]

One of the greatest deals of all time. I mean, back in 1867, Louisiana Purchase, probably the greatest land deal in all history, I think that's fair to say.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

Seward's Icebox, which is what they called. Or Seward's Folly. Called it both. Yeah, I knew he was gonna.

[Buck Sexton]

It was close enough to the Civil War that I'm on top of it.

[Clay Travis]

I was gonna say Civil War. Clay over here is gonna. Not gonna let that one slide. But that was also one of the best land deals ever made. And this is, this is I think a pretty straightforward process because here's the problem that the Danes have with all this. By the way, they used to call it Thule Air Base in Greenland. That's the US Space base that's there. I'm sorry, now it's Pituffic. Never heard of it before. Space base, Pitufic Space base, formerly Thule Air Base. So it was, I guess it was an air force base and now it is a space force base. But so we do have a military presence there. You've got, you know, space surveillance missions for norad, stuff like that. So you've got US Air Force, Space Force, civilian contractors, couple hundred troops there. So on a landmass that size, a couple hundred troops is tiny, tiny situation. He wants sovereignty to your point, he wants the ability to do whatever America thinks is in its interest there. When it comes to defense, when it comes to minerals, it comes to, you know, there's some people who argue at some point glaciers and access to that fresh water could become more interesting and important. I think that's quite a ways in the future. Future. But I'm just saying these are the things that are under consideration and he's pushing this. The Europeans did something that I thought was silly and Trump was asked about this last night. Remember he was at the game and he, as he does, spoke to, spoke to members of the press yesterday. Here he is. This is cut three because NATO sent token forces to Greenland as some kind of. Yeah, it's ours.

[Buck Sexton]

Back off.

[Clay Travis]

Like a brush back pitch. But it did not have the intended effect. Play 3 Threats is important to you.

[Buck Sexton]

Why are you upset about NATO allies thinking that, you know, more seriously Greenland.

[Clay Travis]

By holding military exercises? Well, that wasn't a military. They sent a few people and they.

[Buck Sexton]

Say they sent them not for me.

[Clay Travis]

But me to guard against Russia. But you know, NATO's been warning Denmark for about 20 years now. Longer than that, 25 years they've been warning Denmark about the Russian threat. And it's not only Russia, it's also China. So we'll see what happens. But let's put it this way, it's going to be a very interesting Davos. Very interesting Davos. By the way, I've never heard that phrase before. I've certainly never heard it from Trump. Clay, th. He's making this the front and center issue for this, this conference going on in Switzerland this week of, of international who's who and what's what.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. And look, I don't know if you saw this, but I know we have the audio because I was just checking to make sure Gavin Newsom is at Davos right now. And here is Gavin Newsom. I'll play this for a sec. But first, Buck, did you see Emmanuel Macron address Davos wearing sunglasses?

[Clay Travis]

This is like the Bono thing now. Bono has some eye condition, they say.

[Buck Sexton]

So he has to wear red sunglasses all the time.

[Clay Travis]

All the time. Is that what. Is that what this guy's gonna say? Sunglasses indoors? You need an explanation?

[Buck Sexton]

I. Did McCrone's wife slap him again? Remember we saw when he was about to get off the. The plane and she grabbed him in the face and they were like, oh, we were just joking. Haha.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe McCrone's wife is stronger than people think.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, maybe. So here is Gavin Newsom might have quite the right hook. Gavin Newsom saying a. He's calling out world leaders. California's governor has Traveled to Davos. Cut 19. This was a little bit earlier today.

[Clay Travis]

It's time to get serious and stop being complicit. It's time to stand tall and firm, have a backbone. I've seen this in the United States, the supine Congress playing both sides. You know, say one thing on a text or tweet another publicly, should you? It's time to stand tall, strong. Does that mean to stand united? You make that determination. I don't make that determination. But when you say standing collective, what do you mean? Just. I can't take this complicity, people rolling over. I should have brought up a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns and handing. I mean, this is pathetic. Nobel prizes that are being given away. I mean, it's just pathetic. Listen, and hopefully people understand how pathetic they look. There's your Democrat 2028 nominee. I. Are there already bets being placed on this one? Because I'm very confident.

[Buck Sexton]

The Democrat side, when I saw it. First of all, Gavin Newsom feels like he's playing evil Keanu Reeves. When I hear him talk now, it just sounds like he's an actor pretending with that voice. Maybe he's got a little bit more of a cold than normal. I guarantee you, Buck, that Gavin Newsom has been furious that Tim Walls and Jacob Fry in Minneapolis have managed to push themselves into the chief opposition to Donald Trump. And they have knocked him off the newspaper front pages outside of the opens of television shows. And I think he made a calculated decision, by the way, saying world leaders are in knee pads. It's a visual that even for evil Keanu coming off the slopes, where by.

[Clay Travis]

The Way, he's a triple black diamond.

[Buck Sexton]

Even for Gavin Newsom, that's a pretty aggressive take. And I will say there's a lot of public condemnation from Donald Trump, from European leaders, and they say all sorts of things, but he's not wrong about when they actually see him face to face. There's never any opposition that is brought to bear direct, if that makes any sense. So I'm curious if that might change at all at Davos, whether we're going to get any fireworks starting tomorrow.

[Clay Travis]

But it's apparently pronounced Thule Air Force Base, which I didn't know. But some of these. Some of these pronunciations, because they're localized, can be very tough. Like in Turkish, it's Ingerlik, not Insirlik.

[Buck Sexton]

So, you know, I have no hope to pronounce any of these words. I'm not even gonna.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, that's the big Turkish air base we got going on. So anyway, yeah, my green, I guess they speak Greenlandish or something, because the native. I'm not talking about. Obviously, there's people there that speak English and they speak Danish, but I think that they must have a native. The real. The people of Greenland, if you're talking about the overall, like, population there are essentially, like, what we would think of as Eskimos.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

And I know that the Eskimos one. And there's Inuit and there's all these other. And our Alaska affiliates in our listeners. You guys know all this stuff. I don't, but they're. That's what they are. They're like a sort of a native peoples, mostly. So this also raises the question, though, of if they want to go, who's to say? No, this is really the fundamental question that I think Trump raises here, which is, look, I don't think Trump is being. He's posturing a little bit. We're not sending in a Marine Expeditionary force to, like, seize Nook, which is the capital city. Ok, we're not. Yes, and maybe I'm pronouncing that one wrong, too. I'm working on my Greenlandish, but we're not going to do that. But we are going to make a deal or we're going to negotiate a deal. That's what Trump is saying. There's only 50,000 people here. This isn't that hard. Yeah, 50,000 people. This is like a. This is a small mayor's race kind of election in America. This is not some big challenge in terms of if these people, Clay, if they want sovereign, you know, if they want to take their sovereignty and put it into America's hands at some kind of an agreement. Who is Europe to say no?

[Buck Sexton]

They can't. And I mean, I think that's where this negotiation is going to go. There is an opportunity potentially for each of those natives of Greenland to be paid just straightforwardly in certain dollar figure. I don't know what it is. 200k, 100k US maybe they want gold. And if they vote to allow themselves to be connected to the United States, they become a territory. And look, the territorial law is quite clear. I'm a lawyer still in the U.S. virgin Islands Territory you've talked about Guam. I didn't know that territorial law would necessarily be that useful. But United States Virgin Islands is the last place that the U.S. purchased with gold, $25 million in gold in 1917. And so there is historical precedent and court law that deals with how territorial law is applied and, and Greenland would clearly be able to fit within that category.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, it's just interesting to me as well because you have these Europeans who are saying Greenland is not for sale. Says a bunch of guys hundreds and hundreds of miles away in a different continent, a different people, a different, you know. Says who?

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, I think it's.

[Clay Travis]

And now they could say, oh well, under agreement with the eu. Ok, well, Trump is saying let's amend that agreement. Let's amend that agreement based upon, well, look, if it's very clear, the green land, the Greenlanders, that much I think I did get right. I was going to say the Greenlandians.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm sure we found out all about.

[Clay Travis]

What is Minneapolis Minneapolitan. No one, no one from Minneapolis calls himself a Minneapolitan.

[Buck Sexton]

We got absolutely deluged with people saying that that was a totally made up.

[Clay Travis]

Oh gosh, oh gosh, Neapolitan. No way.

[Buck Sexton]

By the way, as we go to break a little bit of breaking news for you guys, Trump is going to join a White House press briefing on the one year anniversary of his inaugur configuration with Caroline levitt in about 40 minutes from now. So I bet that we will be getting a lot of news from that and maybe we'll go take it live as well.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Birch Gold Group welcome in hour number two. Clay Travis Buck Sexton show we are awaiting President Trump and Car Levitt on the one year anniversary of Trump 2.0. What has the first year accomplished? What do we think about that? Trump is now in the communication, the sales pitch aspect of his presidency as we move towards what will frankly be the last election that is in many ways a referendum directly on President Trump's leadership after from 2015 when he came down the escalator for the first time to 2026, the Trump era of effectively 11 years. Now you can say 2028 will be potentially for the Republican candidate if it is JD Vance, if it is Marco Rubio, somewhat of a referendum of Trump himself, but he will not be on the ballot in any way in 2028. So the last real time that Trump is has a referendum on his leadership on his presidency will be the midterms. And so we are now into the sell the job that you have done stage of Trump 2.0. And I mentioned these stats, but I want to hit you with them right off the top here because I do think that the challenge is making everyone aware of the promises that he has delivered on. And I would say, number one, the most significant accomplishment of President Trump, Buck, is the secure border. And it's so successful that nobody even talks about the border anymore. So for a decade we talked about, hey, we should build a wall, hey, we should have a secure border. Biden opens the border, everybody comes across. Ten million plus people. Trump gets in. One month later, we have the most secure border in the history of the United States. The second thing that I would say is probably the most significant of his accomplishments so far is record high stock prices. And you could say, oh, that really only impacts rich people. That's not true. With 401ks, huge percentages of the American public, particularly Republican voters, have exposure to the stock market in some form or fashion. So record high stock prices is super important. I would say the third most important thing he has done. Buck 4.3% GDP at the end of the third quarter, there is a very good chance that we are going to be at 5% plus for the fourth quarter and on into 2026. Inflation in the wake of tariffs did not skyrocket. In fact, it has continued to come down. Four year lows going all the way back, I believe to March of 2021. 2.6% core inflation, record murder decline. No one is talking about it. One of the biggest murder declines we have ever seen in many different cities out there, particularly the Cities that President Trump has surged federal support the most for I would say sixth most impressive thing. Record fentanyl death decline, that is overdoses, poisonings related to drugs have collapsed. Mortgage rates down 7% and mortgage rates down 1% from over 7%. And gas prices are at a four year low. Those are eight things that I think President Trump has accomplished and could sell. Now, there's also a lot of international affairs, the situation with Israel, Gaza. But I'm just focused right now on those eight things. America first, the America agenda, not even getting into Venezuela, not getting into the settlement, the peace process in Gaza, all those things are very consequential. But just in the United States, what is changing in your life? All eight of those things. I put up a poll question asking Buck, what grade would you give? Would you give President Trump and 800-282-2882. You can give us a talk back on this. I'm hitting retweet on this right now. So if you want to go vote in the Twitter poll, what grade would you give Donald Trump's first year in office? 47% of you say A, 34% of you say B, 13% of you say C and 6% of you say D or F. In terms of what the impact is, Buck, I would give him an A. I bet you would give him an A. But I'm curious to hear from people. I just laid out those eight different things that I think are all super consequential and important that are evidence of the success that he has had in year one.

[Clay Travis]

You know, I just also think there's such a difference in a lot of the conversation among Trump supporters first time around, one year in. And I mean for people who were as pro Trump as it gets, voted for him, love the guy, love what he's trying to do for the country. There was a lot of frustration over staff, who's he got in place, are they on board?

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, that's important.

[Clay Travis]

There was a lot of, oh, it's not his fault. The staff, you don't hear any of that now. Yes, it's just a totally different and this is just marking the progress, I'm saying, marking the, the transformation of honestly the experience level that Trump as commander in chief as well as the people around him have had. We have very little now. Look, there's always going to be people who are, who don't like, you know, what happened at, you know, pick your department or they think that this could be different, but there isn't this, you know, hey, it's Not Trump's fault, it's the fault of these people or that people that didn't do this thing. We're not wasting any time with that because overall, the agenda is being implemented, is being pursued. You know, you have to give credit to the people that are the main implementors, whether it's at any of these different agencies, it's at State, it's at. Obviously, the funniest thing with Marco Rubio these days is all the memes about how he's got 15 different jobs and, you know, you have a lot of people around him who have stepped up. So the conversation is different and it's now just how do we keep it going? Instead of, ok, we got to have a big change in course here. Like, does anyone even remember what did Rex Tillerson do his first year as Secretary of State? Nobody knows. Didn't last long, didn't work, wasn't a good thing. Rubio, you see what he's been up to. And obviously he's a long, long standing Republican fixture now on this in the Senate and on Foreign Relations Committee, et cetera. But these are people who understand what the Trump mission is and are getting it done day in and day out. So I've got to say it's, it's been a great first year. That doesn't mean there aren't. There's always going to be areas of improvement. There's always going to be some criticism that, that I think is necessary to help the team get better. But, man, it's just a world of difference. We're playing a lot of clay. We're playing so much defense back in meet we, you know, the Trump voters playing so much defense back in 2017 into 2018 on the Russia collusion.

[Buck Sexton]

Crazy.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. It completely consumed the media news, the media cycle, day after day after day. All a lie. And yes, it's to Trump's credit that he battled through all of that and then all the other stuff they threw at him and got a second term. But it unfortunately was, was pretty successful in slowing down and sabotaging the agenda. Term, year one, term one. A lot of Russia collusion garbage.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. I think your point there on staff continuity is hugely important because, yes, there have been conflict, as there always is. People argue for what they believe in, people disagree with them, they go back and forth. Nobody's gotten forced out. No one in the entire first year. Did Trump say, you know what, I made a poor choice here. I'm going to accede to some of the, some of the smoke, some of the fire, some of the attention on these individual picks. Now, that doesn't mean that he's not going to have staff turnover. He certainly is. As you move into year two, as you move into year three, people get burned out. That's natural no matter who the President is. But you remember this, they really went after Trump on his inability to have a consistent managerial core in the first Trump administration. And they were constantly shifting in and out of people, man. With James Blair, with Stephen Miller, with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff corps has remained very, very consistent. And then you look at the entire cabinet, everybody, it seems, is in pretty decent shape as we move into year two. Now, again, people are going to decide this is too much work. I need a little bit more work. Life balance, that's natural in the White House because it is such an all encompassing job. But in terms of the media being able to browbeat Trump into making changes in his personnel, it hasn't happened. And I actually think if you look at Hegseth, J.D. vance, Marco Rubio and Trump in terms of those four supremely important positions, I'm not sure that we have actually been in a stronger position as a country than having all of those individuals involved right now. So I would give an A. You guys can weigh in. 800-282-2882. People are not always going to agree with everything the President did. But I saw the Wall Street Journal, I think it was came out 92% of Trump's voters support his presidency so far. So they've tried to sell this idea of oh, Trump's base is leaving him. Oh, Trump voters are unhappy. I don't think that's remotely true.

[Clay Travis]

I'm going to tell you this, I had to gear up for this, you know, after the because again, we're marking the one year of Trump getting sworn in for the second time one year anniversary today. So the start of year two of term two is today. And I remember after the huge win and just the hu. The enormous relief thinking to myself and how we were going to have to deal with this if it came to it, which is this isn't term one. Like there's no learning on the job. There's no, oh, trust him, he'll get it right eventually. This time around. Had to be prepared to say is not if, if he wasn't pursuing the agenda on something that was promised or if he was making, you know, personnel decisions were really counterproductive, we were going to have to hold that to account and we will if that happens in the future. But I look at Term one. And I'm like, year one, rather. And they're getting it done. They truly are. And we're not mired in defending against the same media nonsense with Russia collusion and then the prosecutions and all this other stuff they've thrown at Trump. You see what is cape, what Trump and his team are capable of doing without, like I said, all the artificial sabotage of the media and the Democrat Party weaponizing the deep state against him.

[Buck Sexton]

If I were going to point to one thing that was not handled well, it would be Pam Bondi and Epstein, like if you gave me a magic wand and you said, you can go back. And we said that. I thought she was getting.

[Clay Travis]

I thought she was going to get fired. And I said it here. I thought they were going to tell her that, you know, enough's enough.

[Buck Sexton]

And even Susie Wiles, chief of staff came out and said, yeah, we really screwed that up. The fact that she said the files were on her desk, the fact that they had those influencers walk in with the binders, I think that's the biggest unforced error of the first year.

[Clay Travis]

They still have to get those files out, by the way. We haven't forgotten. And, you know, people say put more pressure on them. We can, but I don't run any of these agencies. Neither does Clay. There needs to be more, more release of, of that information out there. And I think that that is coming, but it is too slow. But there's that. And then there's these other things that we're talking about, the economy, the border, national security, not being involved in stupid wars. I mean, these are very, very big things that affect all of us. And I think that on those areas, those issues, it has been really strong. By the way, Scott Bessant, who I think has been the. I think has been the out. I think, Clay, you could say that Scott Besant out kicked his coverage or has certainly outperformed expectations for what he'd be able to do, I think, because a lot. Look, I didn't know who he was before Trump made him Treasury Secretary. I don't think many people did. So here he is. I think he's done a very good job here. We got two big issues that he's tackling here. Let's talk first about the tariffs. Here he is saying that he doesn't think. Clay, they're going to strike down the president's signature economic policy. This is 16 hit it. I think it's very unlikely that the Supreme Court is going to strike down a president's signature economic policy. It didn't early on with the aca.

[Buck Sexton]

Also known as Obamacare.

[Clay Travis]

They reinforced that recently. And the real, the real problem here is President Trump has used IA for negotiating leverage for geopolitics in emergency situations. If we look back, the first IPA tariffs were fentanyl tariffs. So on Mexico, Mexico, on Canada, on China. And if fentanyl is not a national emergency, I don't know what what was.

[Buck Sexton]

All right, I'm nervous about this one buck. I think the Supreme Court is going to strike down some elements of President Trump and I appreciate the fact that Scott Besson is making that argument because that is his job and he should be advocating for the president's perspective. So I don't begrudge anybody advocating in that way. I think this is one where the president's going to get a pushback from the Supreme Court and they are going to have, they're going to have a really complicated situation here. I we keep waiting for the official. I was following Shannon Bream this morning because I thought we might be getting the tariff Supreme Court case. My concern is that they're going to slap him back some on this. We'll see. But I think it could be a major pushback. We'll talk about that. By the way, White House supposed to start this press briefing any minute now, so we are certainly going to follow that. And we will take some of your calls and some of your talkbacks as well. But I want to tell you, are you trying to preserve your family memories to ensure that they are digitized for everyone into the future? Are you the repository of your family's memories? Do you have a ton of pictures? Do you have the old VHS tapes? Do you have the 8 millimeter film reels? Do you have everything? Do you have put on the slides and show the kids and say, hey, this was great Grandma. This was mom and dad when they were little kids. Do you have all those? Have you preserved them forever in digital files? If you haven't, it's a good New Year's resolution. I went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, my mom's hometown, where Legacy Box is based. I walked through their warehouse, through their factories where they do all this preservation. They do a remarkable job. And trust me on this, just get online and check them out. Legacybox.com Clay 55% off right now as we begin 2026 legacybox.com Clay For 55% off you're gonna get hooked up. You're gonna love it. You're going to be a tremendous fan of preserving your family memories. You don't want to worry about a fire. You don't want to worry about a flood. You don't want to worry about just someone who is holding all these great memories, having them in their attic and forgetting where they were losing them. Share them with your family. Now give the gift of memory with legacy box legacybox.com clay for 55 off that's legacybox.com clay 55% off want to be in the know when you're on The Go the Team 47 podcast Trump highlights from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay. Travis BUCK SEXTON SHOW we continue to wait the White House press conference President Trump addressing on the one year anniversary of his swearing in as we begin the second year of Trump. I saw this morning, I was reading Axios, Buck and I know there are probably left wingers out there who just had tears running down their cheeks. We still have over a thousand days left of Trump 2.0. So this is, you know, we're 25% done, but we still have 75% of the of the fun still to come. It doesn't mean that people are not still behaving in a crazy fashion on the View. In fact, they may have gotten crazier. They had I saw this this morning as I was getting ready for the show, Buck. They had Pam Greer on. Pam Greer was a a star, Foxy Brown of the so called like sort of black ploitation movies of the 60s and 70s. She was born in 1949. She was on the View talking with Sunny Hostin. This is crazy. Listen to her say that when she was growing up in Columbus, Ohio, lynchings were so common for her that her mom had to tell her not to look at the dead black bodies that had been lynched by white people. This is on the View earlier today.

[Clay Travis]

Listen, the military wouldn't allow black families.

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[Clay Travis]

So you had to live in an.

[Buck Sexton]

Apartment and you couldn't take a bus.

[Clay Travis]

You didn't couldn't afford a car.

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You walked your dad's walk to the base.

[Buck Sexton]

And sometimes we would go from, you.

[Clay Travis]

Know, tree shade to shade to get.

[Buck Sexton]

Back to the apartment.

[Clay Travis]

My brother and I, my mom with bags. And my mom would go, don't look, don't look, don't look.

[Buck Sexton]

And she'd pull us away because there.

[Clay Travis]

Is someone hanging from a tree and they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left and it triggers me today.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay, Buck, according to End Wokeness, great Twitter account to follow out there, the last lynching in Ohio happened in 1911. Pam Greer was born in 1949. So she went on the View. No one pushed back and said, that's a totally untrue story. But that lynchings were so common, she said in Columbus, Ohio that she had to not look at the trees as she walked back to her home. I mean, what do you think here? Like, how has she convinced herself that this was true? How does Sunny Hostin not push back? I mean, this is scary.

[Clay Travis]

Honestly, they. Everyone on the left will recognize that victim status is something that is very desirable. Because when you're a victim and you tell a victim narrative about yourself and all of the things in your life that haven't gone the way that you want them to are somebody else's fault, and you also have a claim about how it is their fault, therefore they should do more for you, or it is their fault, therefore something else should be made to happen for you. And because the left is so, in my opinion, the left is so. I guess everything I say here is my opinion. But you know what I mean, Deeply enmeshed in this ideology, like this faith of victimhood that they have. They don't even recognize absurd exaggeration. Like they're just like, oh, well, that's her, that's her story of victimhood. So like, I have to respect that. You know, that's her lived experience, even though that wasn't her lived experience. But you know, the mentality is, however you're going to describe your oppression narrative must be accepted by others because oppression narratives are so important to people who are of the leftist mindset. And I actually believe it's like structurally in the, in the working of the mind, left and right. Political sense is. I think it's much more in the brain than it is than a lot of people think about or a lot of people will get into. Because I just can't imagine approaching the world the way so many of these people do. Whether it's the maniac screaming at ice officers in the streets or this kind of washed up actress saying that she saw, you know, lynchings in the trees by her home. I mean, they're just all used to making stuff up to first, the purposes of self pity Clay that I don't think any of them want to call anyone else out because this is so common. Does that make sense? Yeah, this is like, this is like in the 90s, everybody's like, oh look, I've experienced so much racism. You'd hear this from people, particularly people from communities of color, not all of them leftists. I'm talking about people that would make these kinds of claims.

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[Clay Travis]

What racism are you experiencing? Like, well, there was a detective that followed me once in a store. You know, we'd always hear this.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

And he'd be like, well, but were you actually followed? And then how do you know he was a detective? And I'd be like, you know, I've actually been like, had people look at me before when I was younger, and I thought that I might be like, are you sure it was because of your skin color? Are you sure that. The point is everyone's allowed to play this game on the left, so no one's going to call this out, no matter how absurd it is. Because in this case, by the way, honestly, what do you think Sunny Hostin even has any idea of when the last lynching was in this country or.

[Buck Sexton]

Even how few there were relative to the overall population?

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

In other words, if you go back and you study that entire era, which was awful and did exist, Right. But this idea that it was so common that people alive today would have any recollection of it at all, you would have to be 100 years old, basically, to have any true recollection of an incident like that. And Pam Greer is nowhere near that age. Again, the last lynching in Ohio happened 38 years before she was born. Two generations.

[Clay Travis]

Clay. Clay, if you really want to get people fired up, talk about how most lynchings didn't involve black people at all. Well, if that is historical fact, I just want to be very clear. Most lynchings in this country were not of black Americans. That is a fact. But people, you hear that, people go, oh, they get very upset. This is. It's like saying that there were former slaves in the south who owned slaves themselves. These are other facts. These are facts historically. Go check them out. Go, you know, please fact check me if I'm wrong. But, Clay, that's a very uncomfortable reality for some people because the narrative is so powerful.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, not only that, if you ask any questions at all about it, to your point, if you say, are you sure that was racism? Like, I lived through this and I was talking about earlier, we were at the Indiana Miami game and just how much patriotism it felt like in that stadium, as they sang the national anthem, put Trump on the scoreboard, everybody cheered. But it wasn't very long ago, people were taking knees and there were players Coming out and saying, oh, I was racially profiled to your point. And I remember one of the players saying I was racially profiled at, you know, a Las Vegas casino. I said, that seems kind of unlikely. I mean if you pointed. If you said to me, hey, what place in America has more cameras per capita than a casino? Because they're trying to catch everybody to make sure you're not cheating at cards, to make sure you're. Whether or not you actually won your, your, you know, slot machine game, all those things. Video comes out and it wasn't actually true at all.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

As often is the case and you've talked about with blm basically dying because now everybody has a video of the police officers and what we overwhelmingly see, they're pretty good.

[Clay Travis]

Now, now we get into this. So by the numbers. Okay, so this is now going to be what qualifies as a lynching. Now this is if you consider a, a posse formed of individuals anywhere engaged in what is considered frontier justice that hung somebody outside of normal judicial procedure. I would, I mean, I think that. So now it's. What is, what is your definition of a lynching? The, the numbers are roughly 70, 30 black victims, white victims, as I'm pulling this up here. But now you have to get into, well, what's considered a lynching? Because this is just, this is excluding anything considered frontier justice. Yeah, so now you get into. Well, so but, but then how are you separating out a lynch mob from frontier justice? I guess it's the presence. So basically if there was a judicial procedure that they went around, they're saying that is not. But if you consider non judicial proceedings on the frontier where people were hanged to also be a lynching, then yes, there are more lynchings of individuals who are not black. But even, Even by the NAACP, by the way, these are the NAACP's numbers. Even by the NAACP, NAACP's numbers. Do people know that 30% of their qualification of lynchings were white? You don't. This is not. I mean, how many people, if you still hear this, that only a. Now, of course, it's one of the ugliest things. It's horrible, it's racist, all of that. But we should know what the actual numbers or the actual reality of the, of the history of this was.

[Buck Sexton]

And we should be thankful that basically no one living today has ever experienced one. Right. By and large. Right. And, and so when you have somebody like Pam Greer. Come on, if you point out that that can't be true, then they typically come back with what? Oh, you're racist. Well you don't know what it's like to live in this experience. And this is where I come back to objective reality and facts have to matter. And so for the view to have this, this story happening and you know this buck, they pre vet all of the answers to questions and know exactly to a large extent what is going to be said. So oftentimes they conduct pre interviews for these shows because so many of their hosts are morons that they know what's.

[Clay Travis]

Going to be said.

[Buck Sexton]

They still didn't correct.

[Clay Travis]

And just, just to give you a sense of why. So there's a thousand, a thousand documented cases of frontier justice where people were hanged by mobs that they're saying are non lynched. So it's like now we're getting into what the definition of a lynching is and if you add those numbers in now it gets a lot closer. So it's, it's getting to be more like 50 50. But the point is merely people should understand the history of this such that they don't think that anybody alive today was witnessing lynchings on their way home.

[Buck Sexton]

And that it would be so common that your mom would be like, you can't look in the trees. Somebody just has to call out this bs.

[Clay Travis]

This is. I actually didn't know this. Estimates for Mexican American lynchings in the southwest range from 600 to over 5,000. This is again I'm just going based off of what Grok is saying here for all of these numbers. So this is my point. So I what I gave you by the way, initially those were the end the official NAACP numbers on lynchings which is 70, 30 black and white. And to be clear these now we're really look this is all 1800s we're talking about here. Mostly 1848. 1848.

[Buck Sexton]

And a lot of those would be so called posse.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

Like they would decide somebody has stolen.

[Clay Travis]

But this is what I'm talking when I said most lynchings are not there. There is a, there's. This is interesting actually historically and I'm seeing this play out now in the way that they do these numbers. So they make a distinction between like a non judicial hanging versus a non judicial hanging where there is some judicial procedure that was supposed to be in place and that is how they get to the 7030 number. OK well I mean I don't think it really mattered very much to the people being hanged without due process. I'm just going to point that out.

[Buck Sexton]

And Pam Greer, 1 billion percent is lying here and the fact that ABC would air that on the View. The fact that they would know she's going to say it and nobody would push back at all. I mean, it's crazy. And it goes to what Buck's saying is there is a profound, desperate hope to be a victim in left wing culture. Jussie Smollett is just such a primary evidentiary fact of that that they want to have awful things happen, they want to have experienced awful things, they want to have been victims. And Pam Grier is marinating in something that never happened. I wonder what she's even thinking of to claim that that occurred and to be allowed to air. All right, we come back. Are we still waiting, guys? They still haven't started the White House press conference. I don't think they have. Still waiting on that. Eventually maybe the third hour we will go take that live. Whenever it starts there about 45 minutes late or so. There's a company in Michigan, Rapid Radios, making modern day walkie talkies that give you another way of communicating with family members, friends and colleagues. For a limited time, you can enjoy up to 60% off their most popular radios. We've got this for my 11 year old, maybe a Snowmageddon. The white death approaches my hometown of Nashville. Maybe we'll need to rely on on the five day charge in the event some of these power lines go down, some people start to lose power. If we're getting as many much snow as they possibly are saying we are. Rapid radio is great for catastrophic issues. Also great for young family members, older family members, easy to use, pull them right out of the box. They're lots of fun. You can join the community that has over 15,000 5 star reviews across the nation. Go to Rapidradios.com today. Discover exclusive deals that won't last long. Elevate your connection, your experience. Rapid radio, rapid radios, communication redefine. That's rapidradios.com 60 off today. News you can count on and some laughs too.

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[Buck Sexton]

Are both so committed to keeping out.

[Clay Travis]

Of the strategic landscape. So our response will be unflinching, united and proportional.

[Buck Sexton]

But beyond this, we have to be.

[Clay Travis]

Strategic about how we approach this issue.

[Buck Sexton]

And this is why we are working.

[Clay Travis]

On a package to support Arctic security.

[Buck Sexton]

First principle, full solidarity with Greenland and.

[Clay Travis]

The Kingdom of Denmark. The sovereignty and integrity of their territory is non negotiable. Well, I mean, everything has a price.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, why does Denmark get to have control over Greenland if it's so bad for non Greenlanders to be in control of in any way, their future, why is Denmark allowed to still have this asset? And Buck, let me just. What President Trump is looking towards is I think, a future where if you saw what Russia did with Ukraine, where they went in and they decided that they were going to take that territory. He's asking a very valid question. There is basically no defense of Greenland at all. What if Russia decides that they want to go in and occupy that country because of its strategic value, which Russia.

[Clay Travis]

Has done numerous times in the last two decades to countries that are sovereign nations with real militaries, I might.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, you just came back from Taiwan. I mean, what China has done is slowly try to, especially in the South China Sea, take over shipping lanes, restrict who's allowed to transport and ingress and egress in those areas. Why is it crazy to think that Russia, as these Arctic shipping lanes open up, might not engage in aggressive behavior and start to try to take over. And I think what Trump's looking forward to towards is trying to limit that from ever becoming a reality.

[Clay Travis]

Here is a Danish parliament member among the most well known because none of us know any of them. Rasmus Jarlov.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, I've always been a fan of the Jarlov family.

[Clay Travis]

I celebrate Rasmus whole catalog. Here he is, cut 17. We will, of course, defend Greenland if there is an invasion by American troops. It would be a war and we would be fighting against each other. We know that the Americans are stronger than us and you have a much stronger military than ours, but it is our duty to defend our land and our people. And the 57,000 Danish citizens that live in Greenland that have made it absolutely, crystal clear that they don't want to be taken by the United States. We have an obligation to fight for those people, and our forces will do that. But it would be a disaster also for the United States. We're not, there's not going to be a war. Like, what is this? You know, this is reckless stuff. No one's shooting it. We love Danes. Danes are great people. And Greenlanders, we don't really know them very well.

[Buck Sexton]

At least I don't.

[Clay Travis]

Have you ever met someone from Greenland?

[Buck Sexton]

I don't think so. I mean, there's not very many of them.

[Clay Travis]

We have Greenland listeners right now, but they're on the, they're on the Space Force base.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, look, here is what's going to happen. We're. If we are going to acquire Greenland, it is going to require us to make cash payments to people who live in Greenland, and they're going to vote to be territorially connected to the United States instead of Denmark.

[Clay Travis]

You can be rich and American or you can be cold and Danish.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes, that's, that's a good analogy. Also, Denmark is spending, based on my reading, around a billion dollars a year. Because as we started, I think this week or last week, maybe it was, we were talking about this. The primary economic value right now of Greenland is shrimp. Now, I'm a big fan of shrimp. I bet a lot of you out there like to eat shrimp. It's not exactly the, the greatest foundation for economic viability in the 21st century to say, hey, what is your country known for? Well, we, we, we go out and we harvest a lot of shrimp from the sea. And so it's all these mineral rights going forward. Again, I, I just, I don't think Trump is getting enough Credit. The one thing the guy knows is land value development. He is looking at this and he's thinking, not for the next five years, he's thinking for the next 25next hundred years. This is a decision that makes rational sense to him.

[Clay Travis]

Well, why also you think of something like, like Greenland or you know, the Falklands, which they did fight a war over with Argentina a while ago back in what, the early 80s between the Brits and the Argentinians. Margaret Thatcher was not messing around. She also had a bit of a find out, you know, mess around and find out foreign policy approach. But these are places that are self governed but have some connection to another country for their defense. Like we have to pretend like this is an integral part of this, this nation's sovereignty. Again, I would not advocate, I would not support Trump just taking this stuff by force. There has to be consent of the people that would be governed. There has to be an agreement, there has to be negotiation for this. But it's like I said, I mean you're, we got, we got a man here who is really the legal Eagle of the U.S. virgin Islands.

[Buck Sexton]

There's not very many of us that are actual lawyers licensed in United States.

[Clay Travis]

You know, one day one of you is going to be on a cruise and something's going to go awry. You know, you're going to have some problem and you're going to be calling Mr. Clay Travis here on the radio show, asking him for advice because he knows his way around the legal system in the U S. Virgin Islands. But if, if Russia, because they wanted a warm place for their billionaires, for the oligarchs, well, Russia is a bad idea because we don't, we got all these problems with Russia. But I'm just, if some foreign country said, you know what, we're going to give you, I don't know, a trillion dollars for the US Virgin Islands and we'll provide all defense and whatever. I think we should hear them out. Depends on what the, who the country is. Russia is a bad example because strategically that's a problem for us. But if the UK if the UK for some reason, they're on their asses financially, they couldn't do this. But if they offered us a trillion dollars to take the rest of the.

[Buck Sexton]

Virgin Islands, yeah, we're going to merge.

[Clay Travis]

I'm not going to lose any sleep over that. That's going to be okay for me.

[Buck Sexton]

The BVI and the usvi. But I think what's more likely to happen in that situation and the USVI is actually a good analogy for Greenland, there's around 95,000 people, ish, a little bit less than a hundred in St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John.

[Clay Travis]

Okay.

[Buck Sexton]

I was a citizen of the United States of Virgin Islands. We are a territory that means we can't vote for president, but we are subject to U.S. jurisdiction. There's 57,000 people in Greenland. The last asset we bought, 1917 U.S. virgin Islands. Now we bought all three of these islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in cash. Why is that not an analogistic example of what could happen with Greenland? And by the way, the reason we wanted the US Virgin Islands to my understanding, is to have a basically shipping depot for transit purposes as it pertained to, to assets, strategic assets in Latin America and also then for going across to, to Europe for shipping lanes, everything else. So I am a territorial lawyer in the U.S. virgin Islands. Why would it not make sense to have Greenland under the exact same auspices? And I believe what American Samoa we've talk about all the territories that are uniquely the insular cases. For those of you who really want to dive into the legal Proceedings of the U.S. virgin Islands back in the day, there's an entire Supreme Court precedent surrounding these territories which are not states, which are not allowed to vote for President of the United States, for instance, that are still subject to American jurisdiction. So you have some form of independence, but you're under the fabric of the United States protection. Why would that not make sense for Greenland? And again, I come back to the way this would work is we would pay every green lender a certain amount of money and they would decide that they no longer want to be affiliated with Denmark. And that seems imminently rational to me. They would have better life, they would have better economic situation. And we're going to hear that in great detail, I think starting tomorrow when President Trump, I don't think the timing on this is an accident, knowing that he's going to go to Davos and be speaking to the entirety of the world. All right, when we come back, we will take some of your talk back. We will close up shop on the Tuesday edition of the program as President Trump continues to talk in front of the media here on the one year anniversary of Trump 2.0. And I want to tell you going into this weekend, AFC Championship game, NFC Championship game, Buck and I are in Miami. We went last night to watch Indiana and Miami play a stellar. By the way, those of you who.

[Clay Travis]

Are mad at me, if you go with my football analysis, you get what you get, okay? You know, I was wrong on Miami, but it was close. If that one guy had caught the ball instead of the other guy at the end.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, if there hadn't been an interception, if we hadn't had the block kick for a touchdown. That was a implosion by the Miami special teams. But we got the AFC and the NFC both playing Sunday in what should be epic games. The Seahawks going up against the Rams. And you've got. That's the NFC side. And then on the AFC side, you've got what should be a really interesting matchup with the Broncos hosting the New England Patriots. I have got some picks for you on the NFC side. Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold. I think there's going to be some points scored out in Seattle. Each of them to throw more than one half touchdown pass. Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold each more than one and a half touchdown passes in Seattle. If I am right, that pays out at 2.75 to 1. Appreciate price picks last night hosting us in their suite for the game. All of their staff were there. We met a lot of awesome people. They have a great business. They've done phenomenal job building it out. All 50 states. You get $50 in credits when you play. $5 go to pricepicks.com code clay that is pricepix.com code clay $50 in credits in your account when you play. $5 use my name clay. You can play in California, you can play in Texas, you can play in Georgia, you can play in Florida where we are right now. All 50 states can play along. 2.75 to 1 Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold the NFC championship game to each throw more than one and a half touchdown passes. Get hooked up today. That's PricePicks.com code clay. Keep up with the biggest political comeback in world history on the Team 47 podcast Clay and Buck highlight trump replays from the week Sundays at noon Eastern. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Not everybody can be good at fantasy football and at Better. We understand that. That's why we're giving away a free $10 just for signing up. Download the Better app, pick more or less on player stats, watch the games and win some cash. It's that simple. Better Picks is available in 33 states, including Texas, California and Georgia. Download the Better app today. That's Better B E T R and get a free $10. No deposit necessary.

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