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Clay Travis
It became known as the Iran Contra Affair. The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Ronald Reagan
And insane I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do. To hear the whole story.
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Buck Sexton
Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. We have a lot of news to get to with you, but I will just first hold up. Little James Speed Sexton making his radio debut and he's gonna get fussy so I'm gonna give him to mommy here. But you can see. Honey, would you come around and grab our beloved son here? You watch us on the video stream of Clay and Buck you and you.
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Buck Sexton
Know, by the way, super cute little guy he is coming up on is it three weeks old tomorrow? He's. Is that right?
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Clay Travis
Three weeks old. He's eight pounds and change. Looking good. Looking like he's a blue eyed redhead from what we can tell so far. So he's. We got a ginger, which would be kind of funny because that's the dog's name, but we definitely have a ginger in the making.
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Buck Sexton
Ginger in South Florida. You're going to have to spend a lot of money on sunscreen.
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Clay Travis
Yes like me, he will probably. People always ask me, how often do you get to the beach? I'm like, I cannot remember the last time I went to the beach here, even though I live a mile away. We got big news. Let's get into it. You know, sometimes you got to start the show with a baby because it's fun and he's so cute and I have to help babysit. So here we are. We've got, let's see. Oh, the Stephen Miller press briefing this morning was absolutely fantastic. Really impressed with what Stephen Miller was doing, what he had to say. It was excellent stuff. We'll give you some of the highlights of that. Also, more on Abrego Garcia. There's more information. Fox News has additional, let's say, background on this fellow that they have turned into a cause for the Democrats. Their new hero, Mr. Abrego Garcia. Something a little bit on the unfortunate side of things. Mike Waltz is out as national security advisor. So our first senior level departure from the Trump administration, it lasted 100 days. But Mike Waltz, a couple of, I think one of his top aides already going with him. There may be others as well. We can discuss what happened there. But I think that there were a number of issues that led to this change in personnel. Also, Donald Trump last night called in on News Nation and said, Clay, that he thinks Stephen A. Smith should run for president. That was an interesting side note.
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Buck Sexton
If Stephen A. Smith is the Democrat nominee, I might have to run for president as the Republican and just like slay him in every debate. I mean, I'm just going to toss that out there because I can't let him be the sports media guy running for president all by himself. Right. I mean, I think I would have to step up and run against him.
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Clay Travis
We've got all that. More from that Cuomo town hall with Trump, O'Reilly, some others, some interesting, interesting sound bites. We want to share with you on all of that. Trump has addressed the investments going on in America, which I also think we will spend some time on. But let's start with this one. They, they said they've done this thing now where they're having morning press conference. I think this makes so much sense. I'm surprised actually this hasn't been done sooner or this hasn't been the standard for a longer period of time because, yeah, this lets them set the agenda. This lets them get out there and tell everybody this is where the White House is on this issue. They don't have to respond in the same way to the morning news cycle of the opposition media, they get to say, here's what we are focused on. Oh, we saw that report. Before you run another one, we are telling you what actually happened. Or before you run another fake news piece, here is the background you need to maybe print a correction or a retraction, whatever it may be. But today's morning briefing was about common sense. This is cut to Caroline Levitt, the White House press secretary, laying out the overview before she handed it over to Stephen Miller. Play it.
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Buck Sexton
Everything in President Trump's agenda is grounded in one thing. Common sense. While the Democrat Party went off the deep end and doubled down on pure craziness, President Trump pledged to restore common sense back to the United States of America in a little more than three months. That's exactly what he's done. He recognized that America is a sovereign nation that cannot survive if it does not protect its territorial borders. The President knows his top responsibility is ensuring the safety of the American people, which is why he's arresting violent, illegal alien invaders in our communities who threaten our public safety. And it's unacceptable to President Trump to allow rampant waste, fraud and abuse of Americans precious tax dollars. Which is why the President championed a historic doge effort that saved nearly 200 billion already. President Trump stood up for the Constitution's promise of colorblind equality before the law. So he terminated radical DEI preferencing and federal contracting and directed federal agencies to relentlessly combat private sector discrimination.
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Clay Travis
Clay, common sense is actually, if you had to find one principle or one theme where Democrats are just on perpetual defense and Republicans can continue to just stomp them into oblivion, they lack common sense.
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Buck Sexton
It is, I think, as we come out of the hundred days, one of the clarion calls of the first hundred days has been trying to come up with an argument that Democrats have against what Trump has done. And if you notice, I mean, yesterday I referred to it as sort of a drunken flailing argument. They can't keep the focus on anything. I'll give you an example right here as we sit 102 days out. Did you know, Buck, that stocks actually ended up higher at the end of April than they were at the beginning of April? That is, after all that chaos where they said, oh my goodness, look at where the stock market is. And we tried to say, hey, stay calm, don't overreact, recognize that there is a plan in place. If you bought the dip, you have now made 10% on the dip alone. And in the past year, as I am looking at the S&P 500 stocks are up 12% on average, stocks are going to be up 8 or 9%. So in the last year, you've actually done better than you would over the historic average. And if you're saying, okay, well, what about Clay compared to where they were in January or February, okay, they're down from January or February, as stocks sometimes are, but they're almost identical to where they were at the beginning of November last year. And if seven months ago, you didn't feel like you were incredibly poor and your family finances were completely lost, then you're basically the same place you were seven months ago. Stocks ebb and flow. If you bought the dip, you've actually made a lot more. So they left behind the stock market as it's come back up substantially buck. And they went to what? They went to Abreu Garcia, an El Salvadoran gang member that we now know has multiple different reports in the state of Maryland, including one where his girlfriend at the time, I think now wife, said he's threatened to kill her and she needs protection from the state and.
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Clay Travis
Told her that he could kill her and get away with it.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
Which sounds like something that a hardened gang member would say to me. I don't. I don't know many people that.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's. Most people wouldn't know how to. How to dispose of a body and get away with a murder. But also it is indicative, I think, of how desperate and deluded the attempt to make him the front facing opposition to the deportation crisis has been that you would pick a guy who has this demonstrated record of violence? I don't know. What percentage of men do you think have threatened to kill their wives and dispose of their bodies and get away with it? Maybe 5%. To be really, you know, like, it doesn't happen that often. And I think probably there's women out there listening right now that have been more likely to tell, in a joking way, their husbands that they could kill them and distribute the body and get away. Like the number of men that would have threatened their wives in a serious way that would have made you fear for your life, such that you needed to go to the police and file a report letting everybody know, hey, this guy's probably the person who's gonna kill me. He's made this threat. I don't think it's that common out there in husband, wife relationships. And if by chance you are listening to me right now and you have a husband that you are afraid might kill you one day, I would suggest to you that's probably not a healthy relationship and maybe you should be somewhere else, or a boyfriend, for that matter. Um, and I, I think this is just symptomatic of sort of the drunken inconsistencies, jumping from one thing to another. I'm not even sure what the opposition to Trump is. And people say, ok, well, Trump's approval ratings after the first hundred days are not great. Well, what I would say is, okay, tell me a Democrat who is within 15 or 20 points nationwide that has anywhere near the approval of Trump. People in general, I think, just don't like politicians right now. There's a, generally speaking, an anti politician, anti incumbent universe. And so I think the fact that Trump is in that position right now is actually not a sign of any incredible lack of strength from him. I think it's just that Democrats haven't been able to find any kind of opposition figure for him.
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Clay Travis
And you have Stephen Miller stepping in at this press conference, going absolutely scorched earth and touching on a whole range of issues. But this is one of my favorites because these reporters, and this is true of Democrats so often these reporters pretend they care so much about Abrego Garcia and his rights and everything else, but as Miller points out, they don't want to live next to any suspected MS.13 illegal alien gang members. They want to go to country clubs where nobody like this would even be allowed to serve them food. Right? They want to go to places that are very exclusive. And yet here we are watching them all pretend go through these motions, like suddenly they are all about the downtrodden and the downtrodden gang member. Here's Stephen Miller. Play three.
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Buck Sexton
Each and every one of you decides over and over again with these MS.13 terrorists, to the extent that you have the financial means to do so, you all choose to live in condos or homes or houses as far away from these kinds of gang bangers as you possibly can. If I offered any one of you a rent free home with no taxes to pay in any of these gang neighborhoods, and I said your neighbors are Ms. 13 terrorists or Mexican mafia or Sinaloa cartel or Train Deragua, I couldn't pay you to live there. But yet you, with your coverage, are trying to force innocent Americans to have these people as their neighbors and that one day their daughter may be abducted from their home and raped and murdered. So you're not going to get an ounce of sympathy from this administration or President Trump for the terrorists who've invaded our homes in our country.
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Clay Travis
Clay, it's true. All these reporters, a lot of whom live in, you know, Northern Virginia right Across the Potomac River. You know, they live in condos in Ballston or they maybe have a place in Glover park where they are paying down the mortgage or whatever. They absolutely do not want any gang members around them. It's somebody else's problem. But they get to preen for the cameras.
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Buck Sexton
The number of people who claim that walls don't work that live in gated communities is off the charts. Oh yeah, I mean just almost anybody who makes a significant living in D.C. lives in, to your point, Northern Virginia where it's comparatively safe or Southern Maryland in the Rock Creek area, the that Montgomery County. Right. Or they live in super safe parts of D.C. often with security everywhere surrounding them. And, and so it is the case that very often and people see through this, that the people who are having to deal with day to day crime in their lives overwhelmingly want more police and security. And then the people who have absolutely no risk whatsoever in their day to day existence, they somehow look at the people who want more police insecurity and argue, oh, the police are too much of a hindrance for you. It is is the height. Someone wrote this and said this and once you hear it or see it, you cannot stop recognizing it. People on the left in this country, they talk left and they live right. And once you see it, they get married, they have nuclear families, they have houses in very safe suburbs, they put their kids in private schools and then they lecture everyone else about how they it's fine to make decisions that are not beneficial. Have as many kids as a single parent as you want. Oh, don't worry about your school districts. The amount of lecturing from people who don't live the way they lecture you. You should be comfortable with. People living is off the charts. Everybody in left wing media talks left and they live right in their actual lives. Think about it. Look, Pure Talk right now you're trying to save money on a cell phone. I can save you a bundle. My 14 year old has a pure talk cell phone. My 17 year old has a Pure Talk cell phone. Just texted with them earlier on those phones. I trust them to be in touch with me through the Pure Talk network. And right now you can save a bundle. Just 35 bucks a month. Unlimited talk text, 15 gigs of data and a mobile hotspot on America's most dependable 5G network coverage just as good as one of those other companies. Because Pure Talk utilize the same towers networks of one of those big companies, spend so much money you can switch to Pure talk for just 35 bucks a month. Get your cell phone bill cut in half and you can get a brand new Samsung Galaxy for free. All of that taking place right now. All you have to do is please go to your phone right now. £250, say Clay and Buck. That is from your phone right now. £250 say Clay and Buck. You can save up to a thousand dollars over the course of a year. How much difference could that make for you as you come into Thanksgiving in the new year and the holiday season when you're going to end up spending way more than you hope to save a Bundle up to $1,000 over the life of your year. And you can trust the same company I trust to stay in touch with my kids. £250 say the keywords Clay and Buck make the switch to Pur today. That's £250. Making America great again isn't just one man, it's many. The Team 47 podcast Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Might bring down his presidency.
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Ronald Reagan
Did you make a mistake in sending.
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Buck Sexton
Arms to Tehran, sir?
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Ronald Reagan
No.
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Buck Sexton
It became known as the Iran Contra.
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Ronald Reagan
Affair and I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second I'm going to ask.
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Buck Sexton
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Ronald Reagan
And insane I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story, listen to.
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Clay Travis
Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
That's right. Not a doctor. Jill Biden doctor. A real md And I believe. Well, I should just say it. Can I say it now or am I not supposed to announce it? Ali, I can say it. Dr. Nicole Safire, who many of you will know from Fox News, is going to be doing a podcast as a part of the Clay and Buck Podcast Network. And I believe Ali, is she scheduled to be on with us Friday tomorrow, next week? Friday the 13th. Interesting. So next Friday, if I haven't already tripped all over it and announcing it. Well, I went ahead. So she is going to be on with us. But a variety of different really cool perspectives that I know many of you out there are enjoying. And we did have Sean Parnell in our podcast network and he now is at the Pentagon. And I wanted to mention this because it is news. We have the first reporting.
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Clay Travis
Did I tell everybody? Also, I think I should. We. One of our first podcast network picks was Caroline Levitt, but she's like, guys, I think I have to go run the Trump campaign comms. True. And I, we were like, that's okay, that's cool. We respect that.
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Buck Sexton
We respect that for the original, the original listeners out there. We had Caroline on for the first time running for Congress in 2022. You can go back and listen to the archives. And now she is the badass press secretary who is regularly slaying all of the left wing loser media on a day to day basis. And she is phenomenal. But yes, the very first Time we had her on the program was I think the summer of 2022 when she was running for Congress in New Hampshire and she wrote for Outkick. She's a former athlete, she has had a meteoric rise and she is absolutely dominating. And one change that is coming, Buck, I wanted to make sure we hit this national Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, formerly the Congressman from Florida, from the Daytona area. Right. Of Florida, am I right? Or St. Augustine. He's been replaced now in his congressional seat, but he is now out. And I wanted to, to make sure that we played that audio Reportedly, I don't think it's officially official yet, but this is our friend Dana Perino announcing this on America's Newsroom a little bit earlier today on Fox News.
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Clay Travis
All right, there's a breaking news that.
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Buck Sexton
Happened in the commercial break.
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Clay Travis
So you're looking at photographs right now.
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Buck Sexton
Of Michael Waltz, he president's National Security adviser, except for we just got news.
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Clay Travis
That he is going to be leaving.
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Buck Sexton
The administration along with his deputy Alex Wong.
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Clay Travis
Of course, you might remember the story of signal gate. I don't know if that's a particular reason, but there was some consternation among some people about Mike Waltz, who you might remember was a congressman, Green Beret, a long history and career in foreign policy.
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Buck Sexton
All right, so Buck, you were formerly in the CIA. I think a lot of people don't really understand, candidly, all of the different foreign affair advisor universe appointees. What is this job and what is the significance of someone new just after 100 days in this job from your perspective?
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Clay Travis
Well, it always depends with each administration how much sway the National Security Advisor can have for a president and how important he is. Right. You have people who are at that, at that Kissinger level. The first, the first, the genesis of the NSC system was back in 1953 who became the President's special Assistant for National Security Affairs. Right. So there's been a history of this for, for a while, the NSC system and the National Security advisor. The Robert Cutler, like I said, was the first one. This situation, though, as I see Clay with Waltz, you got a couple of things and I'm not sure which holds more sway right now or which was the bigger factor. But you had two things going on. One, you had signal gate, which I know we shouldn't call it a gate because it wasn't really as big a deal as they were making it sound. Trust me. A few minutes before the Houthis strikes happened, the Houthis were not about to be, you know, hacking into this chat and finding out where things were going and changing it up. But nonetheless, you want to be careful about your comms and you want to have, have secure comms if you're going to talk about things like that. But why was Jeffrey Goldberg, even this whole thing about who was added to the chat. Well, what does that mean? I mean, how would you, how would you add somebody that you don't know to a chat? You, you would have to have their contact information. Ok, so I think this is the, it's one thing if, like, if I'm trying to text Clay and I'm making fun of Jesse Kelly and Jesse, you know, for being too tall or, I don't know, maybe not having the most luxurious mane of hair these days, and I accidentally text Jesse at the same time, thus blowing myself up in the process. Both of those guys are in my phone. So that could happen. Right. If I had never texted Jesse, I had no contact with in my life, but somehow he was on that text where I'm talking smack. Well, that makes no sense. And it made no sense when Mike Waltz was saying that initially. So I think that got a lot of people, you know, they're like, well, is this because Jeffrey Goldberg is not just a reporter, he's a reporter who's written national security stories to destroy Trump to throw elections. I mean, he's, he is as anti Trump in the national security establishment as you can be. So why is the national security adviser for Trump, you know, in contact with him? That was the question that people were looking at, right?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, yes. Well, I was just going to say, to be fair, Trump just did an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg. So, like, and I will say the one thing about Trump that I find endearing and also sometimes crazy. There are probably many things that you could point and put in that category, but he legitimately believes that anybody who hates him, he can convince they should like him and continues to do interviews with people who truly hate him.
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Clay Travis
Well, well, yes, Trump likes to stick his head in the lion's mouth, so to speak. There's no question about that. And he even, he even tweets about that. But on the Jeffrey Goldberg thing, if Mike Waltzer command said, yeah, look, I like to try to push back on the false narratives. And so I will discuss with certain journalists who are opposition to the Trump agenda why they're wrong. You know, you know, I, I would have said, okay, fine, but he said, oh, no, somebody else added this guy. I didn't add him, but I would never talk to him. And it just, it didn't make sense, man. There was something weird. But look, maybe that was nothing and maybe that has nothing to do with it. That's one component of this. And I'll just say this. I mean, Mike Walsh, you know, is a patriot, a good guy. I, I, I like Mike Waltz. I'm just trying to understand or trying to surmise why he's no longer the national security adviser after 100 days. And the other one, though is I think maybe the bigger issue, which is more of the policy dispute level, and that is that Waltz, and I know this from interviewing him, is very hawkish on US Support to Ukraine and very hawkish on US Strikes against Iran, to my recollection. And, and there is a ascendant faction within the Trump national security world, including Secretary of Defense Hegseth, who are cautious and limited in their support for Ukraine and would rather see us avoid a military strike and possible entanglement against Iran by going after the reactors or backing Israel too much in a strike it may do. And you know, that's, those are big issues and when you see those very differently, the friction, I think Clay can be a problem for the people making the national security decision. So those are the two things that I see. Do you see it that way? And is there a third?
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Buck Sexton
No, I think you're right on that. I would also add in that there have been people who have believed that Waltz was not sufficiently die hard Trump. If you go back through his history, there have been talks that in 2016 he wasn't officially enough on the Trump train. Now, the reason why I would, I think you have to just kind of put that out there on the discussion point. The reason why I would discount it is Trump has proven time and again that once you are on board the Trump train with him, he is not a grudge guy. But I do think there are people in his administration that are grudge guys and gals that will constantly kind of come back if there's tension over a current situation and try to reinforce, well, you know, back in 2018 he did say this or he did say this in 2016. And so I would also point this out, Buck Trump does not want to give the media anything that the media wants. He didn't act right after the signal event. He won't give them Pete Hegseth's head on a platter, which is what they seem to be demanding time after time after time. I actually see this in some way as strengthening Hegseth's hand because there has been talk that these two guys were at Loggerheads at time. Over to your point, what the response should be to Iran. And here's my like, look, Iran, I think is going to be an issue for the rest of all of our lives. I don't think miraculously it's going to go back to 1978 in Tehran when men, women could walk around in mini skirts and heels and they were relatively, as a Islam focused country, relatively modern. I think at some point they are going to get a nuclear weapon. And when they get a nuclear weapon, we're never going to be able to do anything to them again. Because that's why they want the nuclear weapon, because it strengthens them domestically, but also internationally, it sends the message of if you come after us, we can really obliterate you. It's why Kim Jong Un wants it. So I don't want war, but if there were a way to ensure that Iran never got a nuclear weapon, I think you have to listen to that argument. And I'm skeptical that any sort of negotiation is going to lead to Iran giving up that opportunity. Because the value of having a nuclear weapon is so massive that if I were Iranian and I were in some way involved with the Ayatollah Khomeini, if we could make it, the Ayatollah Clay, Ayatollah Clay would want a nuclear weapon. And we've talked about this with Ukraine, Libya, you mentioned we had this conversation a few weeks ago. Libya gave up nuclear weapons. Gaddafi was gone soon after. Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons. Russia has now invaded and taken away, what, 20% of their overall territory. Kim Jong Un wants them, the Ayatollah wants them. Because when you have nuclear weapons, you basically create a situation where nobody can come and try to overthrow you. And that's why I don't think Iran is going to give this up. Whatever perspective you want to adopt, attack or not attack, I don't think Iran is going to give up through negotiation their capability to get nuclear weapons. It doesn't make sense to me. I think it doesn't make sense to them. I'm very skeptical that any negotiation is going to lead to a result like that.
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Clay Travis
So these are, these are obviously weighty issues. And that is why a deep philosophical disagreement among people I'm talking about in Trump's inner circle, not like between the Democrats and the Republicans. That may be a part of what led to the change up here that has been reported with Mike Waltz's departure as national Security adviser. I don't think that this will do what a Pete Hegseth forced resignation would have done, which is feed the piranhas and just make them want more in the media. I think that this is a little more inside baseball to the Trump team and what they need. But I miss, I, I wish Mike Waltz well and I think that Trump does too. And I'm sure he'll be doing other, other good stuff going forward. He gave up that seat in Congress here in Florida.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
Which is now Randy Fines. So I hope Randy Fine does a good job. We'll see.
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Buck Sexton
And that's a tough position to be in because as we come back, I mean, three months in, I presume he'll probably find a good job going forward. But I imagine if he had known he was going to be out in three months, I don't think he would have given up that congressional seat. Look, we wanted to let you all know out there, ton of rain, in fact the rain just started pouring down as, as I was talking to you guys during the first break. Went downstairs and rain is pouring down here. Rain and thunderstorms everywhere. And you want clean gutters so you can have a carefree summer. Get yourself hooked up with leaffilter right now. Save 30% off at leaffilter.com clayandbuck Gutter clogs, not just a nuisance. They can cause extensive water damage. Let leaffilters trusted pro help protect your home from flooding, roof damage, rotting foundation issues and more. They'll clean out, realign, seal your gutters before installing leaffilters award winning patented technology. Protect your home. Never clean out gutters again with LeafFilter, America's number one gutter protection system. Schedule your free inspection up to 30% off your entire purchase at LeafFilter.com ClayAnd Buck that's L E A F filter.com ClayAnd Buck See the representative for warranty details. LeafFilter.com ClayAndbuck Stories of Freedom, stories of America. Inspirational stories that unite us all. Each day spend time with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free iHeartrad radio app or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We've Talked some about 100 days of Trump and I did think Buck this was interesting. Harry Enton, I believe on CNN was discussing something that I think is really important. So if you're out there and you are a Trump voter, maybe you have people in your life that are not Trump voters and after 100 days they're coming around saying, hey, do you regret your vote? Now we know your answer is no, but they may try to say, well, if you say, no, I don't regret my vote at all. That's the way that I would vote if I could today as well. They may follow up by saying, well, you may feel that way, but lots of Trump voters definitely wish they had voted a different way. This is an argument they try to make. Well, CNN has a poll at a hundred days of Trump. Who do you think would be doing a better job right now, Trump or Kamala? And interestingly, Trump has a little bit bigger of a margin now than he did over Kamala in the 2024 election. Let's listen to Harry Enton break it down. We asked the question in our last.
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Clay Travis
CNN poll, who'd be doing a better job as president?
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Buck Sexton
Guess who comes out on top within the margin of error, but comes on top.
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Clay Travis
This looks a lot like the election result, right? Trump, 45%, two points ahead of Harris at 43%. It's not just about regretting that vote.
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Buck Sexton
It's literally saying who would be doing the better job right now.
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Clay Travis
And Trump continues to score a higher percentage of the vote than Kamala Harris. This looks a heck of a lot like the election result. We have just seen this in poll after poll after poll.
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Buck Sexton
I do think that's significant, and it's what I was asking. Anytime somebody says, oh, Trump's got low poll numbers, say, okay, what Democrat polls better? And there is no answer because there is no Democrat that is more popular than Trump, whereas there were certainly a lot of Democrats and Republicans when we were talking about during the Biden area era that would have polled higher. So again, I think that's significant.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. And I think, I think Democrats are running into the problem that exists between criticism and complaining. Right. Criticism in politics is they're not doing a good job, comma, we would do the following, which would be so much better. Right. Broadly speaking, this is how, this is how I break it down. You know, Trump's economy is, is floundering because of X or Y. We would do this. And you need someone making that case who can get the attention to be listened to. They're just complaining. They're just sitting around going, everything's terrible. You go, wait a second. The border's certainly not terrible. And the economy's not terrible either, despite what they're saying. So what exactly is so awful? The deportation of illegal alien. Isn't it amazing? Abrego Garcia, no one denies that this guy is in illegal, so he should not be in America. But I'm supposed to care so much that he's not in America anymore. I don't care. I do not. I cannot be made to care. I'm not going to weep over this. They can weep and it won't change my mind. He's not supposed to be here. He's not here. He's not my problem. They just complain though, because they don't have an alternate plan and they don't have a leadership to make the case even if they did.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And also as the details continue to come out about Abreu Garcia, what we told people over the last couple of weeks, that he was the worst front facing individual that they could have picked to be the opposition figure to the Trump deportation process. We just keep getting proven right more and more. His wife said that he threatened to kill her and said that he, if he did it, he would get away with it. She has, I believe six different times gone to Maryland authorities and asked for protection from him. This is not a good dude. This is not a dude who should have been here. There is ample evidence that he was a gang member. There is ample evidence that he was human trafficking. There is ample evidence that he was beating and threatening to kill his girlfriend, then wife. This guy should not be in the country and the country is actually safer without him. VIP email Bert Love the phrase talks left lives right. I think I'll use it instead of limousine liberal. I look once you see this. I was talking about this earlier because Buck was pointing out the great take from Stephen Miller, calling out everyone in the press who was fine with illegal, violent predator immigrants in this country as long as they weren't in their own neighborhoods, as long as they didn't have to interact with them on a regular basis, didn't have to deal with the threat or the danger that they provide. This is left wing politics 101. It is in your own life, make decisions that people who are right leaning would make in general. Get married before you have kids, move to the school district where your kids could go to the best school, or if that's not possible, potentially put them in private school, make decisions to live in very safe, often gated communities with private security in ample measure, and then simultaneously lecture all of us and wag our fingers because we're asking for more police support or we're asking for more violent predators to be removed from the country. You live in a place where that threat is not a existential reality and yet you feel compelled to lecture us for trying to make the world safer. I always think the biggest flaw of BLM was actually and There were many. And the saddest result of BLM was there are thousands of young black kids dead because of blm, because the police were not allowed to do their jobs. And the murder rate skyrocketed. Overwhelmingly, the kids, and oftentimes sadly, they were young kids, teenagers getting killed were getting killed because police were not able to do their job. Buck, you were talking about the job you had with the nypd. I wanted to give a shout out. I don't know if you've been reading about this woman, but she's evidently doing incredible work right now with the nypd. Do you know Jessica Tisch at all?
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Clay Travis
Yes, I knew, I knew Jesse Tisch when I worked at the nypd. She was a fellow analyst then.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I think she was an intern at Fox News back in the day. And now I read a big profile of her recently. Now she is maniacally focused on reducing crime in New York City and she is having a tremendous amount of success. I believe she is a part of a very wealthy family in New York.
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Clay Travis
City which the Tisch family, they, they co own the Giants. I mean, I know, I know the family. I grew up with Ben Tish. So yeah, I'm familiar with these peeps.
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Buck Sexton
Kind of, kind of a cool thing to own an NFL franchise among, among other things. But she has been, I meant to mention her when you were talking about working with the NYPD earlier. She has been maniacally focused on trying to make New York City safer and has been having a lot of results. And you know what she's doing? Locking up bad guys. Locking up bad guys and giving the New York Police Department the ability that they did not have during the BLM era to focus on where crimes are committed, shift resources there and start to make things safer. And I'm seeing a lot of positive results also happening nationwide now as Trump has back to the law and order era prediction. I think we are going to see in 2025amassive drop in violent crime nationwide because police are being put back in a position to police and keep our communities safer.
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Clay Travis
And the ironic part of this, of course, is if Trump and a federal level support for law and order is successful enough, it may give more cover for Democrats in blue states or even some very blue cities to be more law and order in their approach. You know, like they have no choice or they're going to go along with it. It gives them the ability to do it. And that's what you would need, you know, if you had somebody come along and, and turn around San Francisco, let's say if you had a Democrat turn around San Francisco and you had all because in the thing in San Francisco, just to be clear, they always say, oh, violent crime. Yeah, it's not violent crime. It's property crime and quality of life stuff there. Ok. It's like one giant homeless encampment. It's not a nice situation. Clay was just there pretty recently.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And if you had somebody who cleaned that up and had some government programs that actually seemed to show some promise for getting people off drugs, et cetera, et cetera, whatever it may be, that's the kind of Democrat who you could then run nationally and say, we're not insane. Vote for this guy. And then you ram through your socialist left wing policies. Once you fooled the American people. The problem they have right now is everybody who's already in a Democrat position somewhere has a garbage record. And they're not, you know, so they don't have a bench. Which is why Kamala is still coming out and saying, oh, yeah, like I'm, you know, a leader of the Democrat Party. They don't have a successful Democrat running a major city or a very, a very blue state. I'm not talking purple because, you know, you look at a place like Kentucky, they got a Democrat governor. But because the people are mostly red state voters, they won't allow things to get as crazy. I think that, you know, the turnaround at Clay, it's such a shame. The turnaround in New York, it's just waiting. I will always love New York City. I will always love the tri state area. It's where I grew up. It's my home. I mean, I'm a New Yorker in Florida in a lot of ways, still always will be. And it would be so incredible to turn around all you. The Giuliani miracle. It's there. Like there's a template, right? There's a. Yes, you could, you could even hire some of the people that were involved. I'm sure you could hire Rudy Giuliani as an advisor if you had wanted to, if you, if you really were trying to clean things up. But they just won't do it. They just. Although maybe in New York, the new, the new police commissioner, Jesse is. Is going to do it. I don't. We'll see.
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Buck Sexton
I think Jessica Tisch is having some success. But to your point, it's just cyclical. You have awful crime and you decide we need to be tough on criminals. And when you're tough on criminals, crimes gets lower. And then when crime gets lower, leftists decide we're being too tough on criminals. You start going easy on criminals, crime goes up again. It's just, it's easy data.
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Clay Travis
And one way that I think would be really helpful if somebody wanted to find a way to cut through some of this, the, the Democrat leadership approach on crime and the, the way that they, I think, exploit things politically is they will say, and I can speak to this in New York because I know the crime data very well and I was, you know, in that system for a while and I grew up in that city. The Democrats will say our law enforcement efforts are falling short because, or, you know, there's a problem with them, they're racist. Because we have, we have been too aggressive with members of the black and brown community in this city in our policing. What really needs to be understood is that the aggression is toward a very, so to speak, is toward a very small subset of the overall black and brown population of New York City who are law abiding and who are the primary beneficiaries of lower crime rates because they disproportionately, proportionately live in the neighborhoods where this bad stuff is happening. So you get the, you get the, you know, the Kathy Hochuls or you get the, you know, what's his name? Eric. Eric, Eric Adams. And you get these, these politicians who are Democrats who are like, okay, we need to change our approach. We need to have no cash bail. We need to do these things because the system is, is disproportionately hurting people who are black and brown. And the real truth of it is that if you fix the streets and make them safer, the primary beneficiaries are the, you know, 99% of black and brown New Yorkers who are not committing violent crimes.
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Buck Sexton
Correct.
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Clay Travis
This is the, this is the, this is where, you know, but they just, they kind of play to this narrative of, oh, the police are being racist. It's like, no, let the police make us all safe. They're gonna make people safer in the high crime neighborhoods.
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Buck Sexton
I actually think, Buck, as we go to break here, I'm going to say something positive about San Francisco. Oh, first of all, it's a beautiful, unbelievable, maybe the most beautiful place in the, in the United States. I think they actually have a pretty good mayor all of a sudden. Daniel Lurie just started San Francisco mayor. I think he's going to do a decent job. And there is some shoots of optimism, some green shoots that are coming up as they return to some form of sanity. I just wish they didn't have to make such awful decisions in so many places in order to make the same decision.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Ronald Reagan
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir? No.
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Clay Travis
No one was letting it became known.
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Buck Sexton
As the Iran Contra Affair.
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Ronald Reagan
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Buck Sexton
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre.
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Ronald Reagan
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Clay Travis
Please do.
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Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story, listen to.
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Clay Travis
Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app.
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Buck Sexton
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. Senator, appreciate you coming to hang out on Clay and Buck today. How you doing?
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Ronald Reagan
I'm doing well, man. I love your music. I love your intro music just kind of drives it. I. That's pretty good.
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Clay Travis
Thank you. Thank you. Clay is friends with the band, so that always helps.
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Buck Sexton
Lit, my own worst enemy, Fabulous song that has become an iconic sports anthem all over the United States. So those guys have got a real lasting song. We're happy they let us use it.
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Ronald Reagan
So do you have loyalty every time you use it? I mean, does that, you know, benefit them financially or you just give them some free. Free airtime?
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Buck Sexton
Man, you ask good questions. My understanding is they get something for that. But we wanted to make sure that we had a band that loved what we say on this program because some musicians, you probably have experienced it or you've seen it in politics. When people that they don't like politically use their music, they decide to try and keep you from using it going forward. And so I never wanted that to happen with this program. I knew the guys behind Lit. I love that song. And it, for many people who remember the 1990s, has become an anthem of the 1990s. So they make some money. But. But primarily it's just that we're in political alignment and that song is phenomenal. And I thought it fit very well the. The audience as we had to pick something new.
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Clay Travis
I like it.
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Ronald Reagan
By the way, Michael Jordan once said, republicans buy tennis shoes as well. And so, like, you know, whenever somebody says, don't use my music, I'm thinking they must not think that Republicans listen to music. I'm glad.
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Buck Sexton
Exactly.
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Clay Travis
I think that that's. I think that that is changing a little bit now. At least people are more aware, Senator, that cutting out half of the country from their possible audience or their possible consumer base is unwise. And we pay attention and we remember. So, yeah, everybody out there, whatever you're listening, you know, go, go to the iHeart app, go listen to some lit. Because they love all of you. They love all of us. All right, Dr. Cassidy, Senator Cassidy, let's talk about the Senate Health, Education, labor and Pension Committee. So you're the first physician to sit on that. How are we making America healthy again? How's that coming along? I know RFK Jr is the one who's most talked about in that, in that regard, but what are we doing for Americans health? What are we doing to make people, you know, healthier going forward?
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Ronald Reagan
Well, one thing, one thing we tried to do yesterday was pass a bill to keep Jewish students from getting harassed and beat up on campus. Some of my Democratic colleagues opposed it. Can you believe that? We're trying to pass a bill to keep some kid from being harassed when he's walking to, like, biology class. And folks oppose that. It'd be nice to keep people healthy by keeping them from being chased into a room and people pounding on the door. So that may not be the normal definition of keeping America healthy again, but not getting beat up fits my definition. And that's what we worked on yesterday, and that's what we'll complete sometime next week.
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Buck Sexton
Senator, you're down in Louisiana. One of the schools that went viral for anti anti Israel protest was lsu. There were a lot of Southern schools where the kids just said, yeah, we're not going to stand up for this. And as a result, SEC applications and for Clemson, Florida state schools such as those as well, that had the same sort of cultural response have skyrocketed. What does that say about. Let's give a little bit of positivity here, the kids going to school in Louisiana and their ability to see right from wrong, even if maybe some of the kids at Harvard and UCLA and Columbia and places like that can't.
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Ronald Reagan
I can tell you, some of these bastions of kind of Democratic strongholds may not appreciate the United States of America, but my folks do. And a lot of those kids, maybe their parents didn't go to college. They are getting the opportunity to take their lives to another level because their parents sacrificed to send them to school. And they're not about to feel guilty about something happening around the world that's being mischaracterized as somehow an attack by the Israelis on others when October 7th was an attack upon the Israelis. You know, this is not upside down day. And so I'm proud of my people. My people love America and they are going to support Jewish students when they realize that supporting those students is supporting American values.
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Clay Travis
Senator Cassidy, you know, last time we had you on was right after the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans. And the FBI has been working on this case for, for months. Iraqi, sorry, and, and authorities have apparently arrested somebody with an ISIS link. Can you tell us just as a follow up to that, because last time we talked to you about it, we're talking about terrorism in Israel. We've got terrorism concerns here at home. What do we know about the, the full scope of what happened and who was involved in that New Orleans terror attack?
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Ronald Reagan
The FBI is still pretty confident this guy was a lone actor. So we're learning details from the situation in Iraq. And let's just, you know, again, we need to, as Americans thank our friends around the world when they are friends to us. And I am grateful to our friends in Iraq who helped find this fellow and are sharing information to find if there is a connection. Reading about the fellow that did the New Year's Day terrorist attack, he seemed kind of a lone wolf type of a person. Like he had broken up, divorced his wife, had very few friends, that sort of thing. But if there is a connection there, we'll find it out. We don't know yet, but I want to point out that New Orleans and Louisiana and our country did not let that terrorist or that terrorist act win the super bowl shortly thereafter was a fantastic experience. And so we don't yet know the complete ramifications. We do know that our country, our state, my city, responded in an incredibly positive way.
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Buck Sexton
Donald Trump, President of the United states, just finished 100 days. He's going to be speaking in a place that may not be particularly fond place for your constituents. That is the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa tonight, I believe, for those who don't know, lsu, Alabama, big rivals, some of the biggest rivals in all of college sports. But notwithstanding him being in enemy territory, from a football perspective, how would you assess the first hundred days of the Trump presidency? And what do you think, think going forward Congress can do, particularly the Senate, when it comes to passing this big, beautiful bill that would help to enshrine the tax cuts and ensure the American economy is on stronger footing. How would you break down where we're headed there?
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Ronald Reagan
Well, first, starting off on 100 days, I start off on the first 30 days. President Trump inherited a southern border in which millions of people, literally millions of people, were crossing illegally. And along with that came drug trafficking with fentanyl, by the way, 7,74,000 roughly Americans die annually from drug overdose, from fentanyl overdose. And within 30 days, that was shut down. He says okay, Mexicans, if you don't control this, we're going to put a 25% tariff on you. Suddenly, the president of Mexico sicks the Mexican army on the cartels, starts breaking up the migrant caravans. Now we are just the lowest level of illegal immigration across that border in decades. And the cartels are on the run with their fentanyl labs. So I like to talk about the first 30 days in which that promise to control the illegal immigration across our southern border was controlled. And by the way, the flow of fentanyl across that border greatly reduced, hopefully down to zero. That's number one. Number two, he is pushing now for increased economic development. Last night I was at the White House with a group of about three or four other senators with a lot of business leaders talking about the investments they are making in our country. $5.8 billion by a Hyundai to build something in what we call the river parishes of Louisiana. Like a $17 billion investment in Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana by Venture Global for LNG export. He didn't even mention Woodside. And Woodside's put in $17 billion in Louisiana for another LNG export facility. But he did speak about other states, other projects with huge investment. That's more jobs, better paying jobs for working Americans. That's in the first hundred days. I am hoping we keep this pace up for the next three and a half something years.
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Clay Travis
Senator, the tariffs are getting a lot of attention for obvious reasons all across the country. You might have seen Kamala Harris last night if you stayed awake for it. You might have seen Kamala Harris talking about the greatest man made economic disaster, I think she said, in modern history. And Clay and I woke up today.
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Ronald Reagan
Looked at the Biden administration.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I mean, no, we really did think, I was like, this is the worst. She thinks this is the worst man made economic disaster in, let's call it the last, you know, in the post World War II era. Wow. Okay. But put aside, put aside, KAMALA Harris, ECONOMIST for a second here, the tariffs, what should people know about where you think this is going? And, and is it right fundamentally for Trump to take this approach specifically to China, but also more broadly to other countries that have tariffs against us? And why, I mean, I just want to hear your thinking on the terror, on the Trump tariffs.
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Ronald Reagan
Well, first, to use tariffs initially with Mexico as we spoke, as a tool of foreign policy to get the Mexicans to address the cartels and the caravans coming from Central America. That worked. That was a pretty effective use of tariffs as foreign policy. Secondly, he's trying to ensure equal market access. And we've seen countries, I think Cambodia was the first, but Vietnam, with whom we trade a heck of a lot. Israel immediately coming forward saying we will drop our tariffs. Let's enter into negotiations. Now. The biggest problem is obviously China and frankly, we don't know how that's going to play. There is a lot of stuff that comes from China that we don't make in the United States. Now, the Chinese, terribly unfair trading partners who will, if there is an American competitor, slash the price of their goods below their cost of production, put our folks out of business, and then jack their price back up. So these tariffs are trying to correct a lot. But China is a huge economy. We are mutually, we are dependent upon them, they are dependent upon us. And so the President's going to really have to do the art of the deal to make that work.
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Buck Sexton
Well, some news coming out today about Mike Waltz, the National Security Adviser. What should happen there? What do you expect to happen? I know this is an area you have some knowledge and expertise of.
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Ronald Reagan
Well, first let's thank Mike Waltz. I think the guy got three bronze stars. He served in the Bush W administration. He's been a Congressman. This guy has served our country. I don't know his reason for his departure, but he serves at the, he serves at the pleasure of the President. And if the President decided it would be better to move in a different direction. Well, that's why elections have consequences. That's why he's the Commander in chief. But I also want to just acknowledge, Mike, anybody that has three bronze stars in the Special Forces is pretty high up there in my book.
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Buck Sexton
No doubt, Senator. We appreciate the time, happy to have you on anytime. And look forward to you guys getting this big bill passed through sometime by Memorial Day and getting the economy really rolling. Thanks, sir.
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Ronald Reagan
Hey, thank you, man.
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Buck Sexton
That is Senator Bill Cassidy from the great state of Louisiana. You heard us talking about the impact of anti Semitic protests on so many different college campuses out there and his attempts as Senator to help combat that going on today, Israel is recognizing their 77th. Independence Day should be a time of celebration. But between the largest out of control wildfire in Israel's 77 year history and the ongoing threat of missile attacks, it's a somber Independence Day in the Holy Land. The Israeli government appreciates on all of the work that is being done by the international fellowship of Christians and Jews. Their ongoing help to make sure the elderly, the sick, the wounded and the impoverished families don't fall through the cracks. I saw the incredible work that the IFCJ does in Israel during my trip to the Holy Land in December. Your gift to the fellowship today can provide life saving aid, medicine, healthy meals, safety and comfort to those in need. And when we bless the people of Israel, we unlock God's blessing in our lives as well. Show your support for Israel by making a life saving gift today by calling 888-488-IFCJ. That's 888-488-4325. You can also go online to support IFCJ.org one word supportifcj.org news and politics. But also a little comic relief. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Some matches are temporary, but your privacy shouldn't be. With line two you get a second phone line just for dating. No need to share your personal number until you're ready. You can chat, text and even block numbers, all while keeping things fun and private. It's perfect for online dating, blind dates or just keeping things light. When you're ready to move on, Line two lets you cut ties without any drama. Dating should be fun and carefree. Line two keeps it that way. Ready to date on Your terms? Visit lineto.comaudio or download line 2 in the app Store today. Your next unforgettable experience can happen anytime. Take an AMEX card with you for rewards wherever you go. Morning coffee run with an old friend. Earn cash back. Weekend getaway Earn miles. AMEX rewards your inner explorer. Learn more@americanexpress.com terms apply. In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Clay Travis
It became known as the Iran Contrast Affair. The things that happened were so bizarre.
- [64:54]
Ronald Reagan
And insane, I can't begin to tell you.
- [64:57]
Clay Travis
Please do.
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Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.