Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Mar 11 2026

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show: Daily Review – March 11, 2026

Episode Overview

In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton dive into urgent global and national headlines—focusing primarily on the rapidly evolving situation in Iran, a recent attempted terror attack in New York City, and the brewing political battles in Georgia ahead of crucial 2026 elections. With their signature blend of sharp political analysis, candid skepticism, and humor, Clay and Buck break down what the mainstream media isn’t telling you, keep their audience grounded in the facts, and challenge the narrative on controversial stories like the Iran war, border security, urban crime, and the state of play in upcoming gubernatorial and Senate races.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Iran Crisis: Regime Change, Succession Chaos, and U.S. Objectives

Timeframe: [03:19]–[16:25]

Major Discussion Points:

• Trump’s Iran Strategy & Succession Dilemma:
  Discussion centers on President Trump’s claim via Axios: “Anytime I want the war to end, it will end.” (04:05, attributed by Clay) and whether this is accurate or rhetorical. Clay challenges the feasibility of a peaceful resolution, given the catastrophic deaths in the Iranian leadership’s family, and argues the presumed new Iranian leader, Khamenei’s son (Moktaba/Mujtaba), would inherently be too personally vengeful to offer the U.S. any real stability.

  > “Would you be very fond or willing to work in an expeditious and pleasing fashion if a country killed your dad, your mom, your wife and your son?... I would want America to die on a level that would burn in my soul for the rest of my life.” — Clay Travis [06:00]
  

• Military Realities & Regime Change Limits:
  Buck elaborates on the “aerial superiority” the U.S. and allies have shown but doubts a constructive regime change is forthcoming. He likens current U.S. strategy to “mowing the grass”—degrading military capabilities repeatedly, but never truly uprooting the problem.

  > “We have defanged the snake, but there are going to be little baby snakes that grow fangs in time after this.” — Buck Sexton [09:45]
  

• Succession Uncertainty and Iranian Propaganda:
  The pair question if Moktaba Khamenei is even alive—citing weird public appearances (like “cardboard cutouts of him at rallies” [14:49]) as likely propaganda, possibly to protect or obscure his fate.

  • Outside commentators and media question if this is an Iranian ploy to confuse Western intelligence (featuring a Washington Post journalist on a clip: “There's been a lot of talk that he might succeed his father... but the fact that we haven’t seen him indicates that he might not be alive.” — Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian, paraphrased [15:32])

• Public Patience Fading:
  There’s a growing sense that Trump and his team are running out of time, even among supporters. Clay references polling suggesting the public tolerates the war only if it concludes within the month. [16:25]

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2. New York City Terror Attempt: Media Spin, Public Safety, and Political Culture

Timeframe: [21:44]–[33:36]

Major Discussion Points:

• Attack Recap:
  Buck details the attempted bombing outside NYC Mayor Zoran Mamdani’s residence by Muslim extremists, highlighting the bravery of NYPD officers in subduing suspects and the hazards they faced.

• Critique of Media Coverage:
  Both hosts critique CNN’s handling, singling out an awkward on-air moment by Abby Phillip, where the teleprompter script wrongly frames the victims and attackers—focusing criticism on Republicans instead of the perpetrators:

  > “Two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s Mayor Zoran Mamdani...” — CNN tease, quoted by Buck/played on air [24:43; 27:56]
  

  • Clay offers a partial defense of Abby Phillip, noting she was simply reading a badly written script but sees this as indicative of CNN’s editorial culture:

    “The errors you make reflect the culture you create... the culture that CNN has created is there is no way left wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative.” — Clay Travis [26:12]

• Law Enforcement & Political Incentives:
  Buck and Eddie (sidekick) note that instead of honoring the NYPD heroes, Mayor Mamdani held events with controversial activists, further undermining officer morale and fueling perceptions of anti-police bias within NYC leadership.

• Political Identity & Immigration:
  They discuss how the left paints all anti-immigration sentiment as "white nationalist," even though concerns are shared by many legal immigrants and minorities.

  > “There are plenty of people who are concerned about the massive immigration into this country, particularly illegal immigration, who aren’t white... including legal immigrants, by the way, huge numbers of minorities.” — Buck & Eddie [31:53]
  

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3. Georgia Battleground Update: Senate, Governor, and Internal GOP Feuds

With: Ashley Brassfield, Daily Caller Political Reporter

Timeframe: [35:11]–[49:05]

Major Discussion Points:

• Georgia’s Central Role in 2026:
  Ashley Brassfield details the intra-GOP scramble to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene and how Trump’s and Governor Kemp’s endorsements are shaping the field. The Senate race to unseat Jon Ossoff is highlighted as make-or-break for Senate control.

  > “In terms of national politics, that Senate seat is huge... there’s basically no math under which the loss of the Senate could occur if Republicans win Georgia.” — Eddie [40:19]
  

• Kemp vs. Trump Dynamics:
  The ongoing cold war between Trump and Kemp is outlined, with Kemp backing Derek Dooley for Senate, Trump holding back his endorsement, and worries that GOP infighting could cost another winnable seat.

  > “I don't think people understand the full scope of that story... it's a very interesting one to see happen within the first year of the Trump administration from somebody like [Marjorie Taylor] Greene who has been a cheerleader for the president for the last four and a half years." — Ashley Brassfield [43:21]
  

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4. Athlete Activism Double Standards: Iranian Women’s Soccer Asylum

Timeframe: [47:43]–[48:48]

• Hypocrisy in Western Athlete Activism:
  The plight of the Iranian women’s soccer team (refusing to sing the national anthem, many seeking asylum) is contrasted with the relative silence of prominent U.S. sports figures like Megan Rapinoe:

  > “Why do you think so many women’s athletes that are quick to degrade the United States... are not speaking out to protect these women that actually put their lives legitimately on the line to speak for freedom in their home country?” — Eddie [47:30]
  

  • Ashley blames “first world problems,” egos, and woke activism, criticizing top athletes for grandstanding domestically but remaining quiet on real international oppression.

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5. Interview: Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Voting Reform, Iran, and College Sports

Timeframe: [53:31]–[64:33]

Major Discussion Points:

• Save America Act & Voting Integrity:
  Calls for listeners to contact their representatives about GOP-backed voting reforms, with Tuberville bluntly alleging systematic corruption in Democratic (“blue”) states:

  > “We have 15 states in this... that are totally crooked. All the blue states, they want to make sure that they get elected. They elect their officials... The country you and I know will be over with.” — Sen. Tuberville [54:04]
  

• The Filibuster Debate:
  Buck presses Tuberville on why the GOP won’t eliminate the Senate filibuster, arguing the left will do it when they have the chance. Tuberville notes ongoing debate but urges seizing the moment to push through “America First” reforms. [55:45]

• Iran War Endgame:
  Tuberville relays direct conversations with Trump, supporting continued military pressure but opposing another forever war, noting:

  > “Now is the time... Don’t panic. Let's just bust a filibuster and vote everything in we possibly can under the best president we've ever had...” — Tuberville [56:22]
  

  • Counsels patience in the face of temporary high gas prices, recalling, “Nobody complained about it” under Obama, and asserts removing Iran’s nuclear threat is worth short-term economic pain.

• College Sports Reform:
  Tuberville, a former college coach, calls for transfer and eligibility reform, criticizes unionization attempts, and claims only Trump can force needed changes via executive order.

  > “Let's talk about reality... An executive order for the rest of his term: when you start your clock in college sports, you got five to play. Five. That’s it. Nobody goes over that.” — Tuberville [61:37]
  

• DHS Nominee Markwayne Mullin:
  Predicts rapid confirmation for Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of DHS, praising his toughness and America First bona fides. [63:35]

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Memorable Quotes

• On U.S. Aims in Iran:
  “We have defanged the snake, but there are going to be little baby snakes that grow fangs in time after this.” — Buck Sexton [09:45]
• On Political Realities in Iran:
  “There is no off ramp for them as far as they see... It’s zero sum for the people in Iran who have been running the country.” — Buck Sexton [13:53]
• On CNN’s Reporting:
  “The culture that CNN has created is there is no way left wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative.” — Clay Travis [26:12]
• On the Georgia Senate Race:
  “If Republicans could win the Senate seat in Georgia, there's basically no math under which the loss of the Senate could occur.” — Eddie [40:19]
• On Athlete Activism:
  “It seems to only matter to people like Megan Rapinoe when she’s not getting paid enough in her book...” — Ashley Brassfield [47:43]
• On Voting Integrity:
  “We have to save America by making sure our voting is true and effective. You know, when I’m in Alabama... people ask me, coach, does my vote count?” — Sen. Tommy Tuberville [54:04]

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Important Timestamps

• [03:19] – Iran War, succession crisis, and Trump’s comments
• [06:00] – Clay on the emotional toll and impossibility of succession
• [09:45] – Buck analogizes U.S. strategy to “mowing the grass”
• [14:49] – Discussion over Iran's use of cardboard cutouts for their supposed new leader.
• [21:44] – Buck introduces the NYC attempted terror attack segment
• [24:43; 27:56] – CNN coverage critique, on-air flub highlighted
• [31:53] – Discussion of anti-immigration views and demographic reality
• [35:11]–[49:05] – Georgia politics breakdown with Ashley Brassfield
• [47:43] – Iranian women’s soccer asylum, Western athlete hypocrisy
• [53:31]–[64:33] – Sen. Tuberville interview (voting reform, Iran, college athletics, DHS confirmation)

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Takeaways

• Iran remains in chaos: The regime’s future is uncertain, with U.S. airpower overwhelming but no concrete endgame for a stable succession. Even a “victory” may only create more virulent, anti-American leadership, and regime change is not happening.
• Media bias is front-and-center: Mainstream outlets like CNN are accused of distorting the facts or minimizing Islamist terrorism, with a deep-seated cultural aversion to blaming leftist or minority actors for violence.
• Georgia is ground zero for 2026: Both the Senate and gubernatorial races hinge on either reconciling Trump-Kemp factions or risking more GOP losses. The stakes for Senate control couldn't be higher.
• Political hypocrisy and culture wars continue: From U.S. athletes' selective activism to NYC’s mayor's priorities post-attack, the show underscores glaring double standards.
• Sen. Tuberville embodies grassroots GOP themes: Election integrity, tough-on-Iran resolve, institutional reform, and old-school values—all with populist Republican flavor.

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This rundown captures the full flavor and substance of the episode for listeners who want depth on today's most pressing stories and politics, all filtered through the candid, combative, and often humorous voices of Clay, Buck, and their guests.

Transcript

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome to today's edition of the Clay

[Buck Sexton]

Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.

[Eddie]

Welcome in. We are rolling into the Wednesday edition from all signs pointing towards Iran continuing. What exactly is going to happen there? We will give you the absolute latest good numbers on inflation, oil and gas prices. The number one story I would say right now in at MSNBC and let's see, not the case at CNN or at Fox News. Doing all my reading, getting ready for the show today. Uh, what stood out to me is several different things that I want to dive into with Buck here off the top, but there are quotes from President Trump via Axios, a conversation that he had, and I grabbed one of those quotes. It's not audio, but President Trump told Axios, anytime I want the war to end, it will end. And Buck, I think that is likely true. And here is to me still the big question that we have been asking since this all started. Who is the acceptable leader for Iran that would allow this situation in Iran to end in some way with the understanding that we would now, at least the Iranians would know that at any point in time we could decapitate their leader. If this son of Khomeini is still alive, Moktaba, or however you pronounce his name,

[Buck Sexton]

you gotta say it like Mujtaba,

[Eddie]

if he's still alive.

[Buck Sexton]

I like the way you say it.

[Eddie]

I, I'm not an accent guy. I can't do accents. I can do, do my voice. And that's pretty much it. So if he's still alive, which I think is very much in question because they're dancing around with cardboard cutouts of him, if you didn't see that as the representation of their new leader, here's what I would say. If he is still alive, and if he is able to recover, because there are reports that if he is still alive, that he is severely injured and was. Was harmed quite a lot in the, in the blast that took place to begin this, this onslaught in Iran. His dad, his son, his wife and his mom were reportedly all killed in the one of those opening attacks. Let me just put this to you, Buck, and to all of you out there. Would you be very fond or willing to work in an expeditious and. And pleasing fashion if a country killed your dad, your mom, your wife and your son? I would submit to you that if he is still alive, it is a non starter that he could be the leader left in charge in Iran because I would not blame him. I would want America to die on a level that frankly or any other country that did this on a level that would burn in my soul for the rest of my life. I think this could actually be worse because it's, you know, you wounded, you didn't kill a terrorist. That doesn't seem ideal. There's, you've done a lot of this study. Terrorists who are wounded and don't die often end up being the most virulent of, of terrorists in their future years. So I would start with this. Him being in charge is unacceptable. And so I don't know if we have a leader that is acceptable, but I would say if he's alive, he is an unacceptable heir to the Iranian leadership.

[Buck Sexton]

I think that we have seen the total military intelligence and particularly aerial superiority of the United States and Israel on display and substantial, a substantial diminishing of Iranian capability, particularly to make war of any kind outside of its own borders. I am not seeing anything about there's some other faction or somewhat some other group that could theoretically oversee a transition, take over. And so what I think is going to continue to be the case, Clay, is we have our Department of War and Secretary Hegseth and Trump degrading Iranian military capability and taking out senior targets. I do not see how this turns into a different regime at the end of it. And I felt that way the whole time. I now perhaps that is what was baked in all along. We're being told that regime change was never. The administration is saying regime change was not the goal. Okay, you're taking out all the leadership in this country and then you're going to have to your point, perhaps a more virulent leadership coming, right?

[Eddie]

And just justified, furious. Like leave aside the politics again, everybody out there, just think if someone you knew killed your mom, your dad, your son and your Wife, would you be likely to work in a, in a positive manner with that country or that group ever? I think the answer is no.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, that's, that's obviously the correct assessment on that. So I think we're going to have a declare, declare victory and cease aerial hostilities moment here within the next couple of weeks. I don't know when exactly. I'm obviously not on the high side, as we used to say. I don't have access to classified or any of that. And if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it here on radio. But my sense is that they're just going to realize the problem with our position on all this, our military position is that if you can't force, if you don't have a ground force, you can't force change on the ground. And that is where we are. There is no Northern alliance to work with the Kurds. There's not enough of them. They don't want to get, I mean they can't run the whole country. That's a non starter notice. People talked about the Kurds for about 24 hours until they took out a map and learned the basic demographics. We had that guy who was a military, military advisor in northern Iraq, one of our listeners who wrote in and said, yeah, you're right. Yeah, of course, I was up there too. I know, I know the mindset of the Kurds with this stuff. They don't want any part of trying to police the rest of Iran. They couldn't do it on top of all that. So I don't see, I don't see the way that this ends with a hopeful new future for Iran. I see this as we have defanged the snake, but there are going to be little baby snakes that grow fangs in time after this. That's, that's how I, I don't see what the alternative is.

[Eddie]

There also is the question, and I think this matters too. And I believe we have a cut of this, of other people talking about something that is being speculated quite significantly. It is, is the son actually alive? In other words, is this potentially an opportunity that Iran has taken to try and prevent the new leader from getting killed by actually elevating a leader who's already dead? And there's audio of that. I want to play that in a sec. But Buck, the other part of this is if he is still alive, he may be protected from being able to be attacked because if they have him in a hospital, it's hard to take out someone in a hospital without killing a lot of other people. And then the same media that didn't care when Iran killed 30,000 people is suddenly going to be leading stories with, look at Israel and the United States targeting people in hospitals or they got the guy being treated. As you're starting to see, Iran has moved whatever assets they have remaining from, for the state into schools, into residential areas so that when we are attempting to strike these assets, then they immediately cry, oh, look, they're just targeting innocence. As if this, this regime has any moral authority at all. Given the fact that they killed over 30,000 protesters just in the beginning of this year.

[Buck Sexton]

We've seen this in authoritarian Muslim Mideast states for decades where the regime in charge. You have to remember that the regime in charge not only disallows there to be political opposition, they also recognize if they lose power. I mean, you just Talked about the 30,000 protesters killed in the streets. Yes, you got to think if you are a member of the besieged, which is the ira, which is the Islamic Revolution's militia, if you will, the sort of street militia, street thugs. They had a very similar thing in Syria, I might add, called the shabiha. This is a common thing. You have the military, which you make sure is ideologically committed and radicalized to the overall cause of, you know, Islamism, jihadism. And then below that, you have this paramilitary organization that's meant to know block to block, house to house who's doing what. And they have the total blessing of the state to be as vicious and disgusting and tyrannical as they want, as long as it's serving the interests of the state, Clay those individuals. You have to always remember this, though. I know we've said there's an amnesty for the irgc. Ok, well, that means that we're saying put down your arms and we won't blow you up. You brought up what happens if someone kills your, you know, your wife, your, your, your parents, your kids, all of the above. You're going to forget that. You're going to, if you're now part of the new regime, you're going to say, hey, when you guys killed those 30,000 protesters, you know what, let's let bygones be bygones. No, in fact, the Gaddafi effect is you better stay in power or you may up with a bayonet in a very uncomfortable place, like bad things happen. And so it's zero sum for the people in Iran who have been running the country. You got America killing their leadership and you've got whatever the opposition on the street could be the Iranian street, if you Will, if they come into power, they, at a minimum, you got to think you might be going to prison in some hellhole and maybe even worse than that. So my point, Clay, is they'll fight to the very end.

[Eddie]

There's no off ramp for them as

[Buck Sexton]

far as they see. And that's not even taking into account the ideological commitment to stopping the Crusaders and Jews and all the, you know, death to America, Great Satan stuff. That's just the basic hard, cold, hard political reality of the situation they face. Which is why I was hoping that we would start to see a. Oh, wow, there is some kind of door number two here or there is something that they've got planned. No, we're just completely annihilating their military capacity. And then I think we're going to stop and then we might have to do this again. It's going to be like mowing the grass, but it's a lot more expensive in human and monetary costs than mowing the grass.

[Eddie]

And also, again, the question becomes who is even leading Iran? And I think this is the question the new Supreme Leader, who they trotted out with cardboard cutout at the rally, which doesn't suggest that he's actually that health help healthy.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, that's like the opposite of a

[Eddie]

proof of life when they have the

[Buck Sexton]

cardboard cut out of you at the rally. No, no, that doesn't look good.

[Eddie]

A lot of you also were laughing in the comments. You were saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't criticize Iran that much about showing up with a cardboard cutout since we effectively had a cardboard cutout president for four, which is. Fair point.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, very fair point.

[Eddie]

But here's the Washington Post, Jason Rezahan saying, what I think is really being contemplated at a significant level. Is this guy even alive? Cut 12.

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I wasn't super surprised by his election.

[Buck Sexton]

There's been a lot of talk that he might succeed his father when his father died. This, this speculation has been around for

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more than a decade. I also wonder if the fact that we haven't seen him indicates that he

[Buck Sexton]

might not be alive.

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I don't think that there's a clear indication that that anyone has spoken to him. The President of Iran, Masif, said today

[Buck Sexton]

that neither he nor anyone else in

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his government had spoken with the younger

[Buck Sexton]

Khamenei since he was appointed Supreme Leader on Sunday. So there is still so much confusion around this.

[Eddie]

And Buck, it could be again, an opportunity to make it seem as if he is the leader when it makes it harder to target the actual leader. And there may be a relatively Only handful of people that even know whether he's alive or not. But when you name a new supreme leader and he isn't going to be seen, that definitely raises questions about what his health actually is.

[Buck Sexton]

We'll take your calls on this one. It's getting to the point where I think a lot of people are running out of patience on the plan here, whatever it may be. And I mean people who support Trump, I'm not talking about Trump haters, but maybe, look, the polling has said this pretty consistently. Clay, as long as this is done this month, people are like, ok, maybe it was necessary. They, they know they're on a time. Our team is on a timeline with this and it's a tight timeline. All right, we'll get back to it in a second here.

[Eddie]

The presence of first responders, villages, cities, the missiles that continue to rain down, the drones that continue to rain down on Israel. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working there for many years. Their entire team is supplying bomb shelters, medical centers, critically needed essential aspects of life as the attacks rain down on Israel. Since we have gone into Iran, I saw for myself they have hospitals in Israel that they have designed. It's really kind of amazing to see they've designed them so that the parking garages can, can be the hospital itself. In other words, they take everybody off the upper floors because of the danger of attack and they relocate everyone. The entire hospital is taking place in the parking garages. Think about how crazy that is to have to do. That is one of the things that the IFCJ has helped to create. They do tremendous work including the bomb shelters. Just trying to keep regular, everyday innocent people healthy and safe. You can help to support the work that they are doing right now by giving $45 to Rush Life Saving Essentials to the vulnerable under fire right now at 888-488-IFCJ. You can also go online at ifcj.org we know the organization. I've seen the work that they do. We trust their work. It is invaluable and it saves lives every single day. Website IFCJ.org that's IFCJ.org.

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[Buck Sexton]

we're talking about Iran in the first hour. And now let's turn our attention for a little bit to the attempted terror

[Eddie]

attack in New York City.

[Buck Sexton]

Now we, we discussed this with you after it happened. It was outside of Gracie Mansion, which is.

[Eddie]

The mayor of New York City's residence,

[Buck Sexton]

also holds events there. But it's the mayor's residence. I'll never forget when Bloomberg preferred Clay. His $50 million townhouse or whatever it was, so he lived there and held only events at the. That's quite a move when the official residence of the mayor of New York is like, not quite up to your standards, but it's, it's quite a property. It's right on the east river. And there was a, a protest there. People saying that they're worried and I don't know exactly what they said. They're probably. Some of them said some things that aren't so nice about Islam and they said that they're worried about the Islamification of New York, etc. Etc. A bunch of terrorist wannabes, or I guess just terrorists now because they tried, they're attempted terrorists showed up to throw bombs at them, to throw a bomb at them. And there was this fascinating series of events that occurred that we've seen now many, many times over the years, really over the decades now, where somehow, if you are a Democrat member of the media, you have to take a shockingly pro Islamic terrorist tone. Point of view, however that is, you say that we can never know the real motive. When the guys are like, allahu Akbar, we can never know the real motive. Right. Um, we aren't really sure yet what's going on here. If the guy happens to be of like Middle Eastern or, or clearly of. Of Muslim descent, we gotta bury that as long as we can. If we have to leave out things in the transcript like the guy, the terrorist saying that he pledge allegiance to ISIS and he's doing this for Allah, they'll do that too. This is a clear pattern that has been in place for a long time. And we saw this play out, in this case, Clay with the CNN piece that was, you know, it could have been a lovely day. It was 85 degrees when two men traveled over from Pennsylvania and then they threw a bomb at somebody. It's like, well, hold on a second. Why would you ever frame this incident in that way as a news report. Like, why make it seem like everything was cool and fine, and then they just kind of threw a bomb at some guys and tried to kill them? Like, it's very strange. CNN's Abby Phillip after this happens, after what I just told you, and they pulled that tweet down, which is very rare for CNN to admit.

[Eddie]

We're idiots.

[Buck Sexton]

We shouldn't have done that. But it was so dumb, it was so preposterous that they had to. Then CNN's Abby Phillip goes on and this is. Now, Clay, I saw you point this out. This is off the teleprompter.

[Eddie]

Oh, yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

So this was written by producers who went over this script beforehand, and then she read it aloud. I want you to listen closely to how CNN describes this attempted Muslim terrorist attack in New York City outside the mayor's residence. Play two. Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New

[Ashley Brassfield]

York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

[Buck Sexton]

And the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing really to condemn those comments. Okay, Notice what happened here, Clay. An attempted terror attack against New York City Mayor Zoran Mandani. It was an attack against him. It was an attack by Muslims against the guys who say that Muslims have too many terrorists in their midst. So we should probably rethink how many of them we're bringing into this country. That's their position, protected by the First Amendment, by the way. You can dislike it, you can hate it or not, but it's clearly protected speech at a protest. But also, Clay, I notice how the real problem isn't the guys who tried to blow people up, maim them, have ball bearings, you know, shot into their chests and in their eyes, Blind people, maybe, et cetera. That's not the big problem. The big problem is the lack of Republican member of Congress, condemnation of the mean words the protesters said.

[Eddie]

Yeah, and I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I'm gonna defend Abby Phillips here.

[Buck Sexton]

It.

[Eddie]

Even if we play that again, she's reading off a teleprompter, and it seems like she recognizes that it's poorly drafted. And again, this is being a TV nerd and understanding having hosted some of these things before. Sometimes you read off the prompter and you're like, this is not good. You know? But as you're reading, it appears that she is going to toss to a break. Play this again. I'll take you into the weeds here. But what I think a significant buck is whatever the culture is at cnn this much like that article that made it out of, through the editorial process and everything else. The errors you make. And I will say this as a guy who has run a media company, the errors you make reflect the culture you create. And everybody's going to screw up. Everybody's going to be imperfect. You and I screw up sometimes. We don't have teleprompter, so we're not reading anything at any point in time. I always hold it up. You can watch, you can look at this on the, on the YouTube channel. I have a yellow legal pad like I have for most of my career that I jot down notes on that I read and run the entire show from. And you have a notepad in front of you and you got your computer, but there is no teleprompter. Play that for us one more time. As she is reading it, you can start to see she is thinking, hey, this doesn't feel right. But she has a commercial break that she's trying to hit. And this is the tease. But again, the errors that you make reflect the culture that you create. The culture that CNN has created is there is no way that left wingers could ever be responsible for anything negative. And that I think undergirds this error. Play it one more time.

[Buck Sexton]

Two Republicans say Muslims don't belong here after an attempted terror attack against New

[Ashley Brassfield]

York's Mayor Zoran Mamdani.

[Buck Sexton]

And the House Speaker Mike Johnson says nothing really to condemn those comments.

[Eddie]

Okay. And I saw an interesting comment and I don't, I can't remember who credited it, but a lot of people believe that Mamdani was the victim of a terror attack that is intentional. Lots of people on the left who are not as engaged on stories as you are believe that Mandani was the victim of a terror attack. You can hear Abby Phillips. She recognizes, I think that that is not an accurate tease that she is reading, but somehow that made it through CNN editorial. Somehow that I believe ended up on her teleprompter. And what this is reflective of is an attempt to obfuscate, to hide, to keep people unaware of what actually happened here, which is two Muslim motivated terrorists decided to try to throw IEDs and kill people who were protesting the number of Muslims that have been allowed into our country. And brave NYPD police officers ran towards the bombs and were able to tackle the guys who were responsible for this. And this is a. This is James Gagliano, former director of the FBI NYC Division says the rank and file are furious because Mamdani has in no way honored the NYPD officers that actually ran towards these bombs and caught the bad guys. Which again goes to the intentional cultural hiding of this story and the way that it's been covered. Cut 24.

[Buck Sexton]

The other night, instead of hosting the two star police chief who leaped over the barricades and ran this guy down, who had thrown the bomb, the mayor decides at Gracie Mansion to host Mahmoud Khalil. I mean, he's sending such a awful, awful message here to the rank and file. And remember the mayor, when he was a private citizen who had commented on Twitter then that he saw a cop crying in his car and nature was healing. This is something that again, the men and women of the NYPD will do the right thing. They're going to enforce the laws, they're going to show up for work, but they understand that this man on the screen right now does not have their back.

[Eddie]

I think that's the key, Buck, and you're a New York City born and bred kid. The fact that this NYPD cop who jumped, if you haven't seen the iconic photo of this cop jumping a barricade to chase down the guys who had thrown bombs that at any moment could have gone off, he ran towards danger. He arrested and tackled the culprits here. Mamdani, to my knowledge, Buck hasn't said a word in favor of this officer's bravery and what he actually did. Instead, he brought the Colombia protester in and gave him a meal and took pictures of it.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, you have to remember that Mamdani's base very much is comprised of and includes in considerable number the kind of people who agree with everything that those terrorists feel and say. But they have to technically draw the line at actual violence because that's against the law in a way that people notice and get upset about. So his base is very supportive of the people who show up and want to silence the anti. You know, we didn't really have a good term for them. They call them white nationalists to this. I still haven't seen anything white nationalist. I've only seen anti immigration and anti. Now, people can argue if they think that's white nationalists, but there are plenty of people who are concerned about the massive immigration into this country, particularly illegal immigration, who aren't white.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

So are they white?

[Eddie]

Including, including legal immigrants, by the way, huge numbers of minorities that have legally immigrated to the country.

[Buck Sexton]

We're like, we're good. We have enough. Yeah, we've had enough here for a little while. So that's not actually a white nationalist belief per se. They can try to make. Make that case. But I think that that's made in bad faith. My point here being that, yeah, Mamdani, like left wing radical lunatics are Mamdani's buddies. So he doesn't want to upset them. But he does have to say, all right, like, don't try to blow up the white nationalists, quote unquote. Just, you know, spit in their faces and do what Antifa usually does, but don't do that, because then I have to let the NYPD tackle some of them and do the things. I'm going to tell you this right now, by the way, it's going to take some time. The sentence that these guys get is going to be enragingly light, guaranteed in now.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

They're going to.

[Buck Sexton]

They're going to be punished because they. They know there are limits here to how crazy the system can be in New York when. Before people really start to freak out and leave. But Clay, I mean, you're gonna see. Remember the guys who. During blm, wasn't there a guy. It was a lawyer, actually.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

There you go.

[Buck Sexton]

A lawyer who threw a Molotov cocktail into a car. They got slap on the wrist.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Buck Sexton]

Slap on the wrist.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I remember that story because I think it was a lawyer at a prominent law firm. And I remember thinking, how do you find yourself in a situation where you're lighting a Molotov cocktail as a lawyer on fire and throwing it into a cop car? That's how deranged everybody became on the left in particular in 2020.

[Buck Sexton]

Probably got a tenured professor position waiting for him at some local, you know, university, local college in New York. I wouldn't be surprised at all. Look, we had a blackout the other night. That's why I did a last me anything. Most you were nice in the ama. Some of you not so nice. Most of you were nice. Blackout in the building. That was not fun. I was taking the stairs. The lights were all out. It was a minor one, only lasted a few hours. But it was a reminder that stuff can happen. And it was also a reminder that if I needed to talk to family, even if you had all the power out here and there were cell phone disruptions, which can happen. I had my rapid radios ready to go. Rapid radios? Long range emergency radios built for blackouts, natural disasters, and any unpredictable moments life throws your way. Rapid radios are small enough to hold in the palm of your hand and you can slip them into your purse or go bag. And rapid radios work on the LTE network so their ability to instantly connect with someone while the power is out is a game changer. They've also got a long battery life up to five days and a durability that stands up to real world emergencies. Staying connected shouldn't depend on luck. It should depend on the tools you trust. If you want to protect your family during the next weather emergency, take ownership of a set of rapid radios. Do it now. Go to rapidradios.com, check out the new rad one, see the full emergency features and grab the launch offer while it's still live. Communication redefined [e-mail].

[Eddie]

We head now. I believe she is in Georgia. I know she is on with us to talk about the goings ons in Georgia, one of the chief battlegrounds that exist in the country for the midterm where they're going to have Jon Ossoff, the existing sitting senator, up for reelection and they're determining who the Republicans going to be challenging him. And Marjorie Taylor Greene is being replaced in her North Georgia district. That primary I believe just happened yesterday. Ashley Brassfield with us now. Let's start right there. Ashley, thanks for coming on with us. The Marjorie Taylor Green race is to to replace her. They now have Democrat and Republican nominees. How does that look and what can you tell us overall big picture about the state of Georgia?

[Ashley Brassfield]

Yeah, well, that Marjorie Taylor Greene race that you saw yesterday, the primary happened with the GOP ton of people in that race and we saw Trump endorsed candidate Clay Fuller come out on top there. Colton Moore was another name that a lot of people were speculating. A state senator in Georgia, that's pretty well known that could have came out in that race. It ended up being Clay Fuller, though, and we'll see him go against the Democrat with the last name Harris in that runoff to see who fills that seat. Of course, Marjorie Taylor Greene's district is actually where I'm from in Georgia, so I know it well. And it's very rural area in the northwest part of the state. And so it's I think a GOP stronghold there even without Taylor Greene holding that seat. But like Kentucky, like you were talking about, the state of Georgia is seeing a big Senate race take place, a three way tie right now with Buddy Carter, Mike Collins and Derek Dooley. It's very similar into that Kentucky race. And what we are just now seeing in the Texas GOP Senate primary where there's going to be a runoff, Texas and Georgia very similar where they both have that 50% mark that the candidates have to get to in order for there to be no runoff. So that's going to be coming up on May 19th and it's gonna be a big race.

[Buck Sexton]

Hey, Ashley, it's Buck. Thanks for being here with us. So I know you're covering this. And as you mentioned, it's particularly close to home as your district. You are a Georgian and your district is one of the ones where there'll be quite an interesting matchup playing out. But what can you tell us about the situation of the governor's race at this, at this point? Obviously, camp is term limited. Right. He can't run again. Right. So you've got a pretty big field here of Republicans and Democrats. Can you, can you break down for, for us what that's looking like at this stage?

[Ashley Brassfield]

Yeah, well, that governor's race is going to be very intense and I think there is that dynamic and I've kind of touched on this in my Senate piece of that dynamic between Trump and Kemp and the Trump endorsed candidate here and who the Kemp endorsed candidates are going to be here. Well, at the governor's race, I think you're going to see the lieutenant governor Burt Jones, get both endorsements from Trump and Kemp on that one. Where it differs in the Senate is that Kemp has already endorsed former football coach at Tennessee, Derek Dooley here in this race and Trump has not endorsed the Senate candidate. So that's kind of the differences in the races here. But you see Brad Raffensperger, who's also running for governor, that's a familiar name you might remember back from 2022, and the attorney general that, you know, made the call from the president during the election fraud scandal. So there's a long history of feuds happening in the state of Georgia. As many know, it's a purple state. And so I think it's going to be a battleground. It's kind of been this powder KE been waiting kind of to explode. It's been kind of the Southern charm aspect to it where nothing's quite happened yet. But these primaries coming up, I had my eye on it personally. Like we just saw in Texas, it kind of exploded all of a sudden

[Buck Sexton]

and we don't know who the Trump guy is. Just to be clear, right. They're still angling for a Trump endorsement in that governor's race on the Republican side?

[Ashley Brassfield]

Yes, I believe so. If not, Bert Jones hasn't gotten it yet. But I think there Bert Jones is kind of the guy that everybody's looking at. He's of course, a former football Georgia football player. And I will say that football characteristic Georgia seems to play. I mean, we saw Herschel Walker Back in 2022, Burt Jones, I was on the campaign trail back in 2024. He was at the Georgia Tech rally with President Trump on stage. So these are characters that are very familiar. You know, I would say that, you know, when the, then the president was in Rome, just about two and a half weeks ago, you saw on the stage Barry Loudermilk, Mike Collins and Brian Jack, and those are kind of the key players here in these races. And if you really want to get into the lore and the deep insider knowledge of Georgia, I mean, you can go back to the dynamic with Governor Kemp and Trump and people like Steve Witkoff, Lindsey Graham, same characters we're kind of seeing in this Iran war stuff, playing those middlemen and making deals in the state. So I think you're going to be seeing more of that possibly as well.

[Eddie]

Ashley, this primary is May 19th. I think you can correct me on the exact date.

[Ashley Brassfield]

That's correct.

[Eddie]

We just talked yesterday with Michael Watley, who is running in North Carolina, and he said, and I, I can't believe this number, actually, he said it might cost $600 million for that Senate race in North Carolina. I would have to think the numbers would be somewhat similar in Georgia because this is why Georgia is so important. For people out there who aren't paying attention to the map, it is by far the best chance for Republicans to take back a Democrat seat. And there is no math if Republicans could win the Senate seat in Georgia, there's basically no math under which the loss of the Senate could occur. Ossoff's a favorite right now, but that's why so much attention. I know the governor's race is big, but in terms of national politics, that Senate seat is huge.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Right.

[Ashley Brassfield]

And it's going to be a challenge for Republicans. We've seen that back since 2020 when Leffler and Purdue, you know, were running to replace and, you know, take over those seats. Democrats Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff took them. We saw Raphael Warnock be challenged in 2022, and that was unsuccessful. So it's going to be a real test for the GOP without Trump's name on the ballot, like in 2024 to see if they'll be successful here and, you know, to differentiate the candidates. You have the Kemp endorsed Derek Dooley, and he has that governor's endorsement behind him from the start. Nothing from Trump yet. Mike Collins, he's done a great job of getting behind the grassroots support in Georgia, going to, I believe, 159 counties and counting. He was also at that From Georgia event not too long ago with Trump on stage. And so while we also have Rep. Ronnie Carter, they Collins and Carter have been Trump allies for a very long time. Derek Dooley was not voting in those earlier elections for Trump, but still has that support from Kemp. I think that's going to be a very interesting dynamic of who can go up against somebody where Jon Ossoff is perceived by a lot of people as still a moderate, even though he might not be to a lot, but also in the state where it's purple. But he also has really great constituent affairs. And that's what I'm hearing from my instated people who live there. So I think it's going to be a very big challenge for the GOP in the state, much like North Carolina is. And if you look at Georgia and North Carolina, the situations are flipped with the count, whether it be with the governors and the senators there. So it's very interesting.

[Buck Sexton]

Ashley Brassfield with us from the Daily Caller. And she's in Georgia and she's covering that Georgia election as the primary is coming up here very closely. Ashley, what if you just refresh my memory, you know, we have to pay attention to a lot of political stories here. I recall Marjorie Taylor Greene was among the most pro Trump Trumpy members of Congress. And then there's been some like, falling out, like a pretty big one. What, what happened? What was the issue or where, where did this all go? It seems like one of the, the crazier turnabouts I've seen on the Republican side in a while.

[Ashley Brassfield]

Right. It felt like, I think to a lot of people that weren't following closely for a long time as this big explosion that all of a sudden happened and lot of it left everybody in dismay. But this, I mean, can go back all the way to, you know, when Trump got into office in 2024, who was he picking as secretaries? And Marjorie Taylor Greene at one rally in South Carolina voiced that she would not mind taking the DHS position. You follow along. She became, you know, a big player in that Doge effort on the Oversight Committee. And I think she started to see some things happening within the Trump administration in those first six months that she wasn't exactly pleased with some policy changes, whether it be immigration and the tariffs that she was heading for a while. But she kind of switched her tune on. And then I do think she wanted to run in that Georgia Senate race. She's made comments about many of the candidates in that race that she's not thrilled about them. So I believe that there was some internal polling shown by the White House to Taylor Greene that showed her being, you know, beat in the, I guess, the general election with all soft. So I don't think she was pleased with that. And I think that's where things started to take a turn there. She kind of saw where the puck was going and I think the relationship just continued to sour. Especially, you know, she's become this very anti involvement and war type of individual. And then you saw the big explosion take place back in, you know, December, November time period and she is no longer in Congress. So now we're seeing this special election. But I don't think people understand the full scope of that story. And I think it was a very interesting one to see happen within the first year of the Trump administration from somebody like Taylor Greene, who's been a cheerleader for the president for the last four and a half years.

[Buck Sexton]

And has there been any effort to reach out, you know, Brian Kemp, a lot of the Trump base nationwide, I think they've expressed it here on the show and in emails. They're frustrated with Kemp on different things. But Kemp, as I understand it, has been very popular within the state of Georgia. And while he can't run again, is there an effort underway or is there any attempt at a rapprochement between Trump, MAGA and and Brian Kemp just for the purposes of making sure that we don't lose a third winnable and really should win Senate seat in the state of Georgia, because it's starting to feel like we got a problem in your home state.

[Ashley Brassfield]

Yeah, well, you thought there would be some Kumbaya after 2024. And it seemed like Kemp got on board. He went on an appearance on Fox News saying he supported the president. But I think it's kind of been this consistent cold war with the governor and the president since then. And you saw this when he decided not to take a run at the Senate in that GOP seat and instead he endorsed Eric Dooley, which I don't think was something that the White House looked fondly upon when he did it. So I'm not sure if it's a total Kumbaya moment quite yet going into 2026, which might need to happen here if the GOP wants to secure the sea in general. So it's a matter of time to watch how it goes. I think that people probably need to keep an eye on Governor Kemp for higher aspirations of offices in 2028. We'll see there. But I think That's a strategic move by Kemp on purpose. And it seems like in the state there's big players like the Brian Kemp's, you know, Mike Collins, Buddy Carter's Derek Duallys. And then even in the governor's race where you're seeing a lot of changing dynamics and one name that's not there is of course, Stacey Abrams anymore. So it's really this inner party war that's happening within the party right now. I'd say.

[Eddie]

Yeah, I know a little bit about this, Ashley. Brian Kemp obviously is a wildly popular governor in Georgia, has done a really good job. He believes Derek Dooley's the best pick. And he had tried to persuade the Trump White House to also endorse Dooley. Instead, they have so far stayed out of this primary, which is about two months away. And hopefully we can wed the turnout, the vote of Brian Kemp with the passion of Trump supporters, because that might be 100. It's 100% necessary, I think, to actually manage to win the Senate race. One question for you, Ashley, on the way out, because I know you're a former athlete, if I remember correctly, as we were talking to you, the Iranian women's soccer team, I think the story deserves way more attention than it's getting. A lot of the girls women on that team refused to sing the Iranian national anthem at an event competition in Australia. Six or seven different reports of those members of that team did not want to go back to Iran afterwards because they were terrified of what might happen to them. So Australia granted asylum to them. They have landed in Malaysia. And reports are that most of the women on the team do not want to continue on to Iran because they are terrified of what is going to happen to them when they land. We have a lot of examples of people like Megan Rapinoe, as you well know, Ashley, speaking out aggressively against the United States. Why do you think so many women's athletes that are quick to degrade the United States from soccer in particular, are not speaking out to protect these women that actually put their lives legitimately on the line to speak for freedom in their home country? Feels to me like this story should be way bigger than it is.

[Ashley Brassfield]

Right. Well, it seems to only matter to people like Megan Rapinoe when she's not getting paid enough in her book is my the way I look at this. And of course she's getting on, you know, this cover of Sports Illustrated in magazines like that, but she doesn't care about the global issues like the what these women on the Iranian soccer team are now facing. So I think that's just, you know, first world problems from Megan Rapinoe really not paying attention to this. But it is sad to see women, you know, especially women that are well known like Serena Williams, they haven't speaking spoken out on even, you know, men and women's sports. In fact, they've been more supportive of it if anything. So I think that's the progressive agenda here being seen playing out within sports. And I, I think that even in places like Iran where, yes, you've seen Kini be, you know, taken out by the United States and Israel, now we have his son taking, you know, his spot in leadership at this point. I think that's going to be a problem for these women going back to the country. And luckily, you know, Australia has granted them a place to stay. But I would be also fearful if I were them. I mean, Iran is not his place that's safe for women. And it's, I think it's interesting that they even have a women's soccer team that they've even been granting that in a place like Iran.

[Eddie]

No doubt. I mean they didn't allow them to even go watch soccer games for multiple generations since the, the Mullis came into power. Hey, we appreciate you Ashley. Keep up the good work. That battlefield in Georgia is going to be significant when it comes to control of the Senate. And we appreciate the update.

[Ashley Brassfield]

Yeah, thank you guys.

[Eddie]

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[Eddie]

we are joined now by Senator Tommy Tuberville, the next governor of Alabama. We'll get into a bunch of things with him, but let's go ahead and start with this, Senator, because everybody, every day we get asked about the Save America Act. I know you've been in meetings all day on Capitol Hill. People are fired up about the fact that this is not necessarily going to be coming up on the floor. What's the latest and what would you tell our audience to do if they're fired up about this, as most of them are?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Yeah, call your congressman, call your senator. Let everybody know what you feel about the Save America act, because it is exactly what it. What it. What it means. We have to save America by making sure our voting is true and effective. You know, when I'm in Alabama, Clay, people ask me, coach, is my vote don't count, or is it just a false sense of security? And we want to make sure that people across the country know that their votes counts. Now, we have 15 states in this, in the United States of America that are totally crooked. All the blue states, they want to make sure that they get elected. They elect their officials. But we have to give us some kind of opportunity to make these things as fair as possible, because we have no chance. And if we continue to lose to blue states, eventually we're going to lose the White House and they are going to open the border up again. No law and order, give money away right and left, steal from the country. Steal from the taxpayers and the country that you and I know will be over with.

[Buck Sexton]

Let me ask you, Senator Trevor Wiltzbach, thanks for being here. Why not get rid of the filibuster if this is really about saving America? Because it feels like this is the game that we end up having to play. United States senators want to do something on the Republican side, But we need 60 votes. We need 60. That's not a constitutional mandate. That's just a self imposed restriction from the Senate. It, if it is saving America, then why not at least have the discussion about whether this is the time to do that? Because otherwise, aren't we just hoping for a filibuster, a standing filibuster at best?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Well, first of all, you're exactly right. And when the Democrats take over, they're going to do away with the filibuster immediately. So we have talked about, 25 or 30 of us have talked to were blue in our face to our colleagues who keep saying, oh, it's about tradition of the Senate. And I tell them, listen, I don't work for the Senate. I work for the people of this country and the people of Alabama. And it's time to understand this country has changed. We are not the same republic that we used to be. We have. The enemy is inside the gates. They are changing our culture, our moral values, changing our religions, just overtaken everything that we're doing. And so now is the time. Don't panic. Let's just bust a filibuster and vote everything in we possibly can under the best president we've ever had and get this country back where it's going again. And do not let them cheat on us in elections again.

[Eddie]

Senator Somerville, the other big question we're getting is about how to wind down the war in Iran. And I'm sure you're hearing from some of your constituents, price of oil and gas a major concern. I know Alabama, like Tennessee, fortunately, still has very low gas prices compared to much of the country. But you may have already talked about this with President Trump. If the president asked for your advice on how to handle the wind down in Iran, what would you tell him?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Well, first of all, he asked me about three or four weeks ago, what you think, Coach, about, about Iran. I said, well, we've got him as weak he's ever been. They're killing their own people. They have a radical group of people running that government. If we're ever going to make sure that the Middle east is safe to take out all these terrorist groups all across the Middle east and in our country, now, now's the time to do it. And thank goodness, I truly believe it was the right thing to do. We'll never have this opportunity again. Now, this doesn't need to be one of those forever wars and it won't be. He's going to do what he needs to do and it's going to be over with. And you know, he said four weeks, five weeks. I don't want to put a time Limit on it. Let's do the job right and then get out and turn it over to the people in the Middle east where they can, whether they got Khomeini's son or whatever, they're going to be so weak that they'll get help from the outside and hopefully turn this thing around. But this is the only way we could do it, guys. We couldn't sit back and let them get a nuclear weapon in the future because it's not like some of these other countries that have nuclear weapons. They have a lot more sense than this group. These people live off of death. They preach death. They preach death to America. And we were going to get lit up Israel or somebody was going to get lit up with a nuke if we allowed them to get a nuclear weapon.

[Buck Sexton]

Speaking. Senator Tuberville. Senator, so you have, I assume, full faith in President Trump, Secretary of War Hegseth the immediate team in the White House, Secretary Rubio, to make sure that they know when it's time to bring our, our assets home from overseas or at least to stop the bombing. That's something that you have a high level of confidence in, you'd say 100%.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

And I've been in classified hearings. I've been in non classified hearings, classified. I talk to them individually quite often, even the President. And this is not one of those where we're going in to try to build back their country that we might give them help in some ways to some point. But again, this is not a prolonged fight. We cannot afford to do it. I heard you talk earlier about gas prices, folks. If we can't live a few weeks with higher gas prices to be able to take out one of the most dangerous group of in the world that want to destroy the United States of America, then something's wrong with us. We have to put up with some high gas prices. But let me tell you this. I was coaching at Texas tech back in 2010, 11, 12, 13, okay? Every year I coach there. I lived right in the middle of the heart of oil company country in the United States of America. Lubbock, Texas oil under Barack Obama was over $110 a barrel the entire time we were there. Nobody complained about it. We're paying $3, $4 a gallon and nobody really complains Under Barack Obama. Now, couple of weeks we have a little bit of a high gas price and everybody's panicking. It's not going to happen. This will help not just gas prices go down, but also help us put Chinese to where they should be and that is a maybe a bigger problem than Iran.

[Eddie]

We're talking to Senator Tommy Tuberville next governor of Alabama. But in the meantime, Senator from Alabama, you had to feel like your worlds were colliding. You just mentioned when you were coaching at Texas Tech. I was up in the White House Friday. Urban Meyers there. Nick Saban is there. You've got a lot of people talking about the future of college athletics. You know this better than anybody. I just saw Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut chirping at you on the Internet, on social media. What should happen, what's going to happen when it comes to fixing college athletics?

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Well, Chris Murphy's for tearing down callers athletics. He's trying to unionize that. That's the worst thing we could do. But at the end of the day, he's an, he's not, he's not relevant in this, in this talk. That was a good talk last Friday. I didn't go. I had other things I had to, I had to do. But I've had a bill. Y' all known this for three years. I've put together a bill which was really good, but it's all about unionization. The Democrats, we can't get a bill passed. Okay, so, so we're basically talking into the wind when this happens. Only person that can do anything to this is, is Donald Trump. And I've talked to him about this. I'm not into all this antitrust stuff. You know, the commissioners were there. They need more money, this or that, and, and that's fine, but you can't get that passed. Let's talk about reality. Here's what President Trump can do. An executive order for the rest of his term. Okay, folks, you got, when you start your clock in college sports, you got five to play. Five. That's it. Nobody goes over that. Second thing is you get one transfer, one free transfer without penalty. Now you can transfer again, but you have to go back. The old rule, you transfer, you set a year. We've got to do something about the transfer portal. The money is out of the back. I don't care what kind of money they make because eventually what's going to happen is there's going to be donor fatigue. It can't keep spending this kind of money. He can't do it. And so we've got to get the transfer portal back. We'll put education back into it. Get your butt back in class. You're going to make money, that's fine. But you're going to go to class, you're going to keep your grade point up like you used to have to. And if you don't fulfill that requirement of going towards a degree every year in school, then you're going to end up losing your scholarship and you're going to end up losing eligibility. Right now there is no penalty for doing anything other than just going, making money and playing. And what's happening is we're losing fans. And fans are the reason college sports are important because they pay money to go watch these. And I'm telling you, they're getting fatigued from all this because of non loyalty of the athletes.

[Eddie]

Last question for you. And this just came down. You probably knew it was coming. Hearing Mark Wayne Mullen, one of your Senate colleagues, is going to have his confirmation hearings to be elevated to run the dhs. What can you tell us about Mark Wayne and do you presume that those will go fairly smoothly and not only will he get Republican support, but he'll even get, I know Fetterman has already said, hey, I'll be supporting this. He'll even be getting some, I would imagine, Democrat support.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

Yeah, perfect choice. He'd make a great head football coach back in the 70s and 80s. Walking in a room, demand respect, motivate people to do their job. Work ethic is unbelievable. Understands this country, loves this country and he is for America first, not illegal immigration. And so he's going to be perfect and he's going to get quite a few Democrat votes. So he will get, he will get pushed through nomination next week. That probably might be is his toughest is getting out of committee. Once he gets out of committee, he'll have plenty of votes to get in. We need somebody hard nose, an offensive line coach. Basically go in and say, okay, we're going to put our nose to the grindstone here and we're going to grind and we're going to get this job done. I don't care about being on TV or doing any of that fancy stuff. We're going to be successful in immigration.

[Eddie]

Awesome. Good luck, Senator. We appreciate the time. Good luck in that governor's campaign. I'm sure we'll talk to you again soon.

[Senator Tommy Tuberville]

All right, guys, thanks.

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