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Buck Sexton
Welcome in we are here Wednesday edition of the program. A lot of stories to discuss with all of you. Congressman Jim Jordan gonna be with us at 1:30 to talk about Google admitting that YouTube canceled conservatives. Sorry. He's gonna be with us at 1 here in about an hour and then in the third hour we're gonna be joined by Florida's Senator Rick Scott to talk about the latest on the budget Batt Hill shutdown or no shutdown. Buck and I have told you for years that this is probably the story that always ends with the government being funded and yet turns into a multi day multi week drama filled. Oh my goodness, what's gonna happen? Spoiler alert. They're all gonna spend a lot more of your money. This is how it's going to end. But people will get fired up and we will discuss that. But unfortunately, breaking news in the last hour and a half or so, a shooting has taken place at a Dallas ICE facility. A sniper on a roof who has engraved anti ice messages on his bullets. Not dissimilar to what happened with Luigi Mangione, left wing shooter who assassinated the United Healthcare CEO. Not dissimilar to the person who killed Charlie Kirk in an act of cold blooded political assassination. This has become quite the left wing trend. If you want to know what the motivation is, all you have to do is actually check the bullets. And let's go to the latest news announcements on that, which begins, I believe with cut one.
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Clay Travis
Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don't support my.
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Buck Sexton
Well, that's nice. We'll get to Jimmy Kimmel in a little bit. But the top of the list here for the shooting that just took place, this is going to be. If I need to pull up the exact number right off the top of the, of the list. Cut to FBI Special Agent in charge Joe Rothrock is telling us just what happened in Dallas.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as.
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Buck Sexton
An act of targeted violence. It is unfortunately just the most recent example we've seen of targeted violence to.
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Clay Travis
Include here in North Texas where back.
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Buck Sexton
On July 4th we saw a coordinated.
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Clay Travis
Attack carried out against an immigration detention.
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Center in Alvarado, Texas.
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Buck Sexton
What I can also share with you.
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Is that early evidence that we've seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti ice in nature.
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Clay Travis
Again, this is just the most recent example of this type of attack.
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Buck Sexton
Ok, so Buck, this is direct result of the rhetoric we've been hearing for some time.
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Clay Travis
This is left wing terrorism. This is anti republican, anti Trump, anti rule of law terrorism. I don't know why there's a hesitation to say this. Maybe because I think I would still qualify as a terrorism expert. I feel like I can just say this. I used to argue with, with people about this when it was in the old jihadist days, we had all this jihadist terrorism happening and as we know, there'd be very clear, very clear motivation and they would always say we'll never know the real motives. We now. Targeted violence. Yeah, just. It's terrorism. If you want to say suspected terrorism, fine, you know, in the, in the opening hours after an incident like this. But this was targeting a government facility with anti government messages written on the bullets. And as we know, this was also the case with the Charlie Kirk assassin. And there's a very clear pattern that is emerging here. Everybody. First of all, these terrorists, the Charlie Kirk assassin was a terrorist. This individual who took his life, we don't know much more about him than that. Also engaged in an act of terrorism. Remember, Clay, you were an insurrectionist terrorist. According to Democrats, if you nonviolently entered the Capitol building on video for 60 seconds with police officers waving you in and with people walking and respecting the velvet ropes in Statuary hall, I'm not saying everybody was in that category. There are some people that scuffled with cops, but there were a lot of people who just walked into the building and were treated like terrorists. We now have people who are murdering people at government facilities because they are angry with government policy. This is textbook definition, definition political violence, terrorism. And they feel the need these, these, these terrorists now to write their beliefs on the bullets. Because I think they want everyone to know. I think they are worried. And I mean this, I know this sounds crazy. I think they are worried that CNN is going to say, we may never know the motive. We may never know the motive of this guy. This isn't about left or right. This isn't, this guy is like no ice is fascism. Here's why I'm doing this. I'm a maniac because I listen to what the New York Times and CNN say every day.
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Buck Sexton
Let me ask you this.
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Clay Travis
I think he wants to make it explicit.
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Buck Sexton
You are more knowledgeable in weaponry than me. This whole engraving messages on bullets thing, it obviously is becoming a trend. I think to your point, the reason it's becoming a trend is because these left wingers have heard left wing media say, every time a left winger does something, we may never know the reason that he did this. Right. Anytime somebody has a connection to the right or Trump instantaneously, it's, well, this is what happens in Trump's America. Anytime somebody engages in left wing political violence, terrorism, as you just said, the immediate response from the media is, well, you know, there's a lot of conflicting stories here. We may never know the motive. So they're saying, here is my motive. But how weird is it to engrave bullets? Is this easy to do? Is this common? What have you seen in your, like, sort of gun?
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Clay Travis
It's. Yeah, I mean, it's not, it's not hard to do at all. It's.
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Buck Sexton
But is this a popular trend? I mean, like, I just, I have.
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Clay Travis
I mean if you're asking, I have fired tens of thousands of rounds in my life. I have never seen or done this bullet engraving in my life. Now, this is not a. This is not a thing that people generally do for fun. I mean, think about it. It makes, if you're going to a range, it makes no sense. Why would you do this?
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Buck Sexton
That was my general idea. But you're more knowledgeable on weaponry than. But it has become a left wing trend with Luigi Mangione, with now the shooter of Charlie Kirk.
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Clay Travis
I think we've stumbled on for everybody here. And this will now reverberate through the broader ecosystem. And I hope that it does. I hope people on the right understand this. They are writing their motives on the bullets because the terrorists want everyone to know and they're sick of CNN for political reasons, pretending that we may never know what the motive is.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's right.
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Clay Travis
This is, this is absolutely what is going on here. You know, this is the. This is like somebody leaving a suicide note because they want to, you know, have their say or they want to tell people why in this case, this guy committed. It was a murder, suicide. And it just couldn't be more clear to me that that's what's going on here. And I'm sorry, but I also have to point out that this person who did this and there are people who are dead, I mean, this is. There are two people who have been murdered by this maniac. You know, their families are getting the worst news imaginable today. Those families are shattered. They have to deal with this. You know, we don't know much of the details of either the victims or the shooter yet. But Clay, you had Gavin Newsom, who is currently, I think, the de facto leader of the Democrat Party. I mean, people could argue that, but I think that's a fair assessment. Talking about how it's fascism for members of ICE to have their identities protected while they're doing their completely lawful jobs. Because he wants them to be able to be doxed by antifa and he wants their families to get death threats. So he is sending a signal to everybody. The governor of California, our largest state, the people who are doing the work of immigrations and Customs Enforcement are fair game for all kinds of things. And some people take it to this extreme. It's certainly, by the way, fair game to be having this like obstruction and gathering at these facilities and shouting epithets at them. These are law enforcement officers. Gavin Newsom should be ashamed. He's incapable of shame.
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Buck Sexton
But this is what's Going on cash. Patel, by the way, has posted photos of the ammunition, ammunition rounds already on social media showing that, I mean, legitimately. Now it looks like it's written in a pen, maybe not an engraver. It's. But anti. ICE is written on the, on the rounds. And again.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
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Buck Sexton
No, I was going to play Ted Cruz here because Ted Cruz is also our friend from Senator, Senator from Texas saying this, this is cut one.
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This must stop. To every politician who is using rhetoric, demonizing ICE and demonizing cbp, stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxed and calling for people to go after their families. This has very real consequences. Look, in America, we disagree. That's fine. That's the democratic process. But your political opponents are not Nazis. We need to learn to work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other. And I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you to the brave men and women of law enforcement.
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Clay Travis
Okay. I mean, I. Everything he says, everything Senator Cruz says is correct. It needs to be said. It will have no impact. They're not going to stop. I'm not saying he shouldn't say it. It needs to be said, but they're not going to stop. And that's what we need to recognize here, because this is the resistance now. This is the center of Democrat opposition to Trump, to maga, to all of it. And Clay, to the point I was making, and I know you're on board for this because I think we just assess this very straight in a very straightforward way. The terrorists, and they are terrorists, are writing their motives on their bullets so that CNN can have a spin room thing of like, well, we may never know. And obviously they need to do things like that because look at Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel goes on the air and says that it was one of the, one of the MAGA gang who killed Charlie Kirk or it was one of their people or whatever it is that he said. So it's not strange at all that these terrorists are making it, even when they make it explicit. There are people who are going to be saying, oh, this isn't for the purpose that you are engaged in this terrorism. So I think they want to make it completely inescapably obvious.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's 100% true. I also think at some point in time, and we've been talking about this on this show for, for a long time, we even mentioned yesterday on the Atlantic, there's going to have to be a real discussion, and I think it's going to have to come from the left of the fact that there are a lot of people that have been told for a decade that we're all Nazis, just almost everybody listening to this program right now that we're Nazi stormtroopers and that our lives are, as a result, not worthy of protection and, in fact, are worthy of being taken. And all of these people believe this is important. I think, too, they think they're heroes. Like, they think they are the good guys that are standing up to evil because their politicians have convinced them of it.
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Clay Travis
You've brought up that kind of intentionally surreal or absurd baby Hitler analogy, Right, which people talk about, and especially online. We don't even have to make it absurd. We could bring it into the present day if it were, in fact true. And to be very clear, it is not right. We all know that, yes, if it were in fact true, that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement were making people, quote, disappear off the streets, never to be seen again, again, explicitly a lie. This is not true. But if that were true, would it be morally justified to take up arms against them? Well, before we even have to pose an answer to the hypothetical, we see what maniacs are doing. We see that people believe they have a right to obstruct these law enforcement officers physically, to threaten their families, and in this case, to open fire on a government facility. How many ICE facilities were under fire during all four years of Biden? Did it ever happen?
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Buck Sexton
I don't, you know, with a rifle.
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Clay Travis
Like this, I'm not aware of it. And people are starting to see, I think, more Clay as well, that. And this is why I appreciate what Ted Cruz is saying. But this is now the whole game for the left, for the Democrats, is hysteria. They can't climb down from this because to climb down from saying that ICE are fascists is to admit that they were lying. And to admit that they are lying is to further limit their political power. And, you know, this just becomes zero sum for them. So we're in a very dangerous moment here as a country, and they're just making it worse every single day.
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Buck Sexton
Amen. We'll take some of your reactions and certainly as we continue the show, Jim Jordan going to join us, top of the next hour. Senator Rick Scott. I do think Jim Jordan's discussion we're going to have is important because what we can only do to combat this is call it out. And in order to call it out, you have to have free and fair access to many of the platforms that everybody uses. And we didn't have that on, on YouTube for a very, very long time. Speaking of violence, been two years since Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1200 innocent Israelis, took 250 hostages before the day was over. In a couple of weekends, there's going to be a special remembrance called Flags of Fellowship, a movement of support for the people of Israel organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The date? Sunday, October 5th, just a couple of weeks away, millions of people across America will plant an Israeli flag in honor and solidarity with the victims of 10-07-2023 and their grieving families. To learn how you can join the Flags of Fellowship movement, visit the fellowship online@ifcj.org Stand up for Israel and join the movement today. That's ifcj.org Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Mic drops that never sounded so good. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
People ask us all the time how we can save the next generation.
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Clay Travis
We've got our show and the info is an antidote. But we also have a couple books coming out, Clay.
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Buck Sexton
That's right. And you can pre order both of them right now and be book nerds just like us.
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Clay Travis
You'll laugh, you'll nod, and you'll get smarter, too.
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Buck Sexton
Mine's called Balls How Trump Young Men and Sports Saved America.
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Clay Travis
And mine is Manufacturing Delusion, how the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda against you.
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Buck Sexton
Both are great reads. One might even say they would make fabulous gifts.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Indeed.
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Clay Travis
So do us a solid and preorder yours on Amazon today. Okay? Second hour Playing Buck gets going right now. Congressman Jim Jordan of the great state of Ohio is with us. Congressman, always appreciate you making the time, sir.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Thank you. Good to be with you. Good to be with you guys. Have you hit 100? Have you hit 100?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
It's been raining. It's been raining a lot in Miami, so the courts have been wet, but it's happening. Congressman, I'm telling you this right now. You're reminding me that a deal is a deal, a bet is a bet. I'm going to get out there. Laura Travis, very excited for me to cross that hundred mile per hour mark. I'm only at 97, so it's really quite a leap to get there. But I'm going to get there. And I promise you, Congressman, you will be among the first to know. It's going to happen this calendar year.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Now, that's good to hear.
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Clay Travis
Thank you.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Thank you, the video you said, by the way, I was impressed. It was, I mean I don't, I like watching sports. I'm not a tennis player, but I was impressed. Good form. You hit the ball. I mean I didn't think he'd hit it that close to 100, but I was, it was pretty impressive.
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Clay Travis
So I think, I appreciate that. You know, I'm a middle aged guy and I can pretty much crank that serve at 97 miles an hour. I said clay, I told clay 100 initially. So it's not like I was way off. All these people were saying 60 in the replies. These people are nuts. They need to get a speed gun. All right, so, so since we've got that out there, thank you for the reminder though, because that is going to happen. I'm in Taiwan next week, so not a lot of tennis. Oh, I just kind of let that slip, didn't I? But not a lot of tennis going there. But I will be doing it when I get back here to Lovely Miami Beach. OK. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Let's take a look. Here's where I am on this and maybe you're talking to the, to the more cynical of the duo. As you may know, Congressman, as you, as you do know. OK, YouTube admits what we've known from the beginning. They censored and they've been censoring terribly. So what does anything happen because of this? What's the action item? The information is important. I think people need to know it. Sure. But what happens?
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Well, they put it in writing. So if in the, it's in, in the future they go back on their word, then there's, you know, you can't lie to Congress. There's 18 USC 1, 1001. So there's, there's going forward. I think there's that second they are reinstating people who, they took their channel with people. I mean there was, there was big names like Dan Bongino. He gets his thing, you know, he gets his channel back. He gets, he gets to go back. I think more importantly, it's the thousands of people that they, that they cut off will get to come back to. So that's helpful. But you're right, you know what, what happened to him in this, I mean some of this four or five years, you know, because it goes back to the coven, people speaking out against all the false things that the government told us. And when you spoke out against it, you got censored or you got, or you lost your, you lost your, your channel on YouTube. So the, yeah, that's tough. But, you know, I look at the glass half, half full going forward. People are being reinstated. They've admitted to it. They've. They've said they will never use fact checkers like some of these other platforms did, because we all know, you know, these fact checkers were lefties who, you know, labeled all kinds of things. Misinformation, disinformation, and censored people. So I think all that's positive. But I get what you're saying. All we can do, though, is. Is. Is the best we can. And as we're. As we're moving forward.
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Buck Sexton
Jim, appreciate you coming on with us and I appreciate you calling out Buck, because I've forgotten. And it is interesting how the rain has been coming down and disallowed.
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Clay Travis
It's very rain and hurricanes. Excuse me. Very tough for the outdoor courts here. But you may. You may proceed. Clay.
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Buck Sexton
We were banned. Outkick was banned. You had me, to your credit, to come testify. I think back in February or March of 21, they made me wear a mask. I think it's like the only time I ever wore a mask, even to testify at the hearing. That was at the absolute apex of we're going to restrict speech. So you've been fighting these battles for a long time. I think you deserve a lot of credit. With that in mind, one of the things that Buck and I are super frustrated by is there basically are no consequences. And I'm curious what you think here. When YouTube, you know, banned us, when they gave us strikes, when they took us down, when they didn't allow our videos to circulate, it had very real financial consequences for a company that I owned at the time, Outkick, now Fox owns. But there, as Buck is pointing out, there are a lot of people out there that are just trying to make 2, 3, 4 grand a month off YouTube. And that is a huge part of their ability to fund what they're doing and saying, shouldn't there be some sort of consequences? Shouldn't google/YouTube have to make some sort of. I'm just tossing this out there. Huge payment to fund free speech so that they could actually be sued by lawyers actually committed to free speech. Not what the ACLU used to do. Like, what organization, what way are there consequences? Because it seems pretty convenient for YouTube now to say, oh, yeah, we did this. We wouldn't allow this in a court of law, by and large, when you admit wrongdoing, usually there is a consequence for the wrongdoing. Here, there seems to be none.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Yeah. And we're working on. We have legislation, Harriet Hageman, a wonderful member from Wyoming on our committee, and she's got a bill that says if the government, you can go after the government. If they're pressuring people to censor you, you know, that's, you know, classic violation of First Amendment. So we're looking at that like individuals in the government, like you'd have a private right of action. So we're looking at that legislation. We passed it last Congress out of committee. We're looking to bring that back. But it is tough to go after. I mean, maybe you can get a class together and see if it works and say, you know, these people were all kicked off, they were all lost, you know, such and such revenue. This is their damages. You might be able to do that. But I think that's, again, I think it's tough. And so what we're trying to focus on is, look, they've admitted to what they did. They admitted that it came from the Biden administration. They caved to it. They did this. Not going to happen. Very similar, frankly, to the letter Mark Zuckerberg sent us last August where he said the same thing. The Biden administration pressures to censor. We did it. We're sorry, we're going to stop. And to his credit, they've actually changed policy there. They use the community notes approach to do to post that are put on their site, on their platform, just like Elon does at X. So, again, I look at the positive, but I get it. You know, it happened to you directly. I was shadow banned. There was four of us members shadow band back in 2018 by Twitter before Elon had purchased that. That company. So I know it's tough, but we got to move forward and look at the bright side.
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Clay Travis
I think, Congressman, something that, as I mentioned, I'm gonna be traveling a lot next week and the weeks after. And Clay and I are actually doing a bunch of events. So flying is on my mind. And I've seen some reporting again, because I think the most frustrating thing is when it's crystal clear skies, everything's fine, everyone's there, we got there, we got through tsa, we did the whole. They did the whole thing. And then we're told there's no crew there. Sorry, don't have people to actually do the plane flying thing. You know, there's this let pilots let experienced pilots fly bill that's been kicking around.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Oh, yeah, I love that.
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Clay Travis
Ted Cruz is a sponsor. Marsha Blackburn, Senator sponsor, is a sponsor. On the Senate side. Is this actually Something you guys on the house side are looking at doing, too, because this is one of those things where we could get some of the best pilots we have to keep flying, which means everybody's one, in safe hands to the newer pilots, get better instruction, and three, we have to wait less at the gate for a couple of hours at a time. Can you guys get this done? Where is this?
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Congressman Jim Jordan
I'm all for it. I'm not on the Transportation Committee, but I'm all for it. I travel like, the last three weekends. I've been in Vegas and Sacramento one weekend, Dallas the next weekend. Last weekend, I went from North Carolina to North Dakota. So, I mean, I'm just like you. We fly all the time, and you want the best pilots and you want it to be on time and not have to. I mean, the delays when it's backed up and you can't even use land and you can't even get to a gate because the gates are all full. I mean, they're just on and on and on. So it's frustrating. Yeah. And to the extent that, you know, allowing good pilots to stick around and continue to operate, I think that's great. In fact, I had a pilot talk to me at a fundraising. I forget what state we were in, but he talked to me about this very bill, and I said, yeah, this makes sense. I hope we. Hope we do get.
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Clay Travis
Who on the Transportation Committee, you think? I mean, who could we have on to talk about this?
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Sam Graves. Have to have the chairman. Chairman Graves. Good man. He chaired that committee for a number of years. Have him on and he can. He can fill you in.
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Clay Travis
Clay, I'm telling you, I know you're a big Southwest fan. We get this thing through, and you're going to thank me because your delays are going to drop. And by the way, the older pilots are all the Clay and Buck listeners, too. They're the ones that are all about this show.
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Buck Sexton
My, I fly Southwest everywhere. I, you know, I'm not a bragger. I don't like to draw attention to myself. As everyone well knows. I have 2 million Southwest Airlines points. That's how. And. And on my last Southwest Airlines flight from New York City to Nashville, I don't think I said this on the air. The pilots wanted to come out and shake hands. They're like, love the shows. Like, I was posing for photos with the flight attendants. So I've got a lot of awesome people at Southwest, and I enjoy meeting everybody there. Congressman, what is the latest? You were working hard, and I don't know the absolute latest, but the SCORE Act, I know there are a lot of people out there that are big college football fans, college sports fans in general were in the midst of the fall football season. What's the latest there? What can you tell us?
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Congressman Jim Jordan
We're working on getting some Democrats to vote for it. We have some great supporters out there who want to look into some changes. We got Cody Campbell, great guy with big, big booster Texas Tech, talking about things that he thinks can happen particularly I think maybe better suited for the Senate. But we're looking at those as well. The bill is through committee. We do have some Democrat support for it. I think there's strong support for it. To use your lingo, play with people in the Southeast Conference part of the country and the Big Ten part of the country. So we'll see. But we do want to get this done and we continue to work on it. We think it's a, a darn good start to help with. You know, when we started this process, I said I think there are three things we want to focus on. We want, we want real competition, want some parity. You don't want just the same teams winning all the time. As much as I'd like to see the Badgers and the Buckeyes, you know, always at the top, you want, you want some parity. You, you don't want to diminish opportunity for athletes. The USOC is very concerned about what happens to the so called non revenue sports, the Olympic sports and women's sports. And so we're trying to see how we can be helpful there. And part of the thing in the bill is we don't want any school to drop the sports that stayed division one. You got to have 16. We kept that in, we put that in the bill. And then finally I do think we at some point got to remember it's supposed to be about getting an education. You got some of these athletes in football and basketball who transfer six times in five years and never get a degree. I don't think that's helpful to the system or to that, to that individual. So we're trying to have those overall objectives in mind when we put this legislation together, but we're not quite there yet.
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Buck Sexton
What should happen with Jimmy Kimmel? Yeah, we're going to talk about this, I think at some point during the course of the show. But you know, with the YouTube, we started off the show by saying, and I think it's really important, Jimmy Kimmel is a small pin prick of the importance of what Google and YouTube were doing. Any comedian would be relative to the policies those companies put in place. And nexstar and Sinclair are still not caring. Meaning, I'm not sure where your affiliate station is, Jim, but I know here in Nashville, I couldn't watch last night if I wanted to. They have news on. I'm a nexstar affiliate here in the ABC Nashville market. What in your mind is the right solution here if you were the magic wand guy and you got to analyze this.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Well, I looked at this the way you've always described it, Clay. I looked this as Republicans buy sneakers too. Republicans watch late night TV too. And I think nexstar and Sinclair just said, you know, we just don't think it's appropriate. You know, seems to me if you're a late night talk show host, you should, you should not do two things. You shouldn't tick off half the potential audience and you. And you should be funny. And it seems like Jimmy Kimmel was failing on both of those, those two things. So I think, I think nextarn and nexstar and Sinclair said we'd just like something different, frankly. So I think this is a business decision largely, you know, it couldn't just be the government censoring because ABC or Disney putting back on. So yeah, I did, I think I looked at it all throughout this whole thing and I understand what Commissioner Carr said, but I looked at it largely as this was a business deal. Nextar came forward and said, no, we want, we want something different. And you can't blame him for that because I think, I think they're losing money on the show. ABC is. I never thought he was really that funny. It was all just, we know was all just attacking Trump all the time. And half the country doesn't particularly care for that. So that's how I viewed it versus government doing what they did in all these areas where we have emails from the Biden administration saying take down this tweet ASAP. And it was a tweet from RFK Jr. When he was running for president against Joe Biden, for goodness sake. So that's as bad as it gets. It said the Biden administration set up the disinformation Governance Board. Most Orwellian thing in history. Yeah, Bunch of bureaucrats. Tell you what, you can say Najenkowitz.
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Buck Sexton
I haven't forgotten her name.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Totally. Totally. So, so that's a, that's a completely different animal than nexstar saying we don't think our audience really likes this show. We just assume be something else. That's a business call My mind.
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Clay Travis
Code. Totally agree. Congressman Jim Jordan will have you back and there will be video of that hundred mile an hour surfing. It will happen.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
I will not be denied.
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Clay Travis
Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, guys, speaking of, speaking of serving up 100 miles an hour, I'm glad we were reminded of this important, this important milestone that middle aged Buck is going to hit one way, one way or another.
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Buck Sexton
And I like that you're now calling yourself middle aged. This happened out of nowhere. You used to be like, oh, I'm a youthful guy. And now like middle aged like you. To be able to get out of.
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Clay Travis
Bed in the morning, I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you in a little secret. Now, this probably isn't unique to tennis, but I think it's more common in tennis. Everyone who plays tennis, I don't. You all know those, those who play on a regular basis, you know, play some USTA matches or play the club championship or the, you know, local ladder in their neighborhood or whatever, they're always like, oh, I haven't played in so long. Oh, my shoulder has been really awful late. Like every time you talk to somebody you're about to play tennis with, it's, oh, my Achilles has been so tight. I, I haven't had surgery on it yet, but I'm really, you know, blah, blah, blah. It's all a big psych out game. So, yeah, of course I'm playing up the middle age thing now, Clay. Technically true, so I'm milking it for all that it's worth. But middle aged Buck is going to get that a hundred mile an hour serve. Somehow I'll find three more mph on my serve than the last time out there. I did get a better system, but you know what? Part of my system is chalk, friends, Because I cannot let this go. I will not be denied. And chalk is like in the corner there urging me on, giving me that energy, drive and focus. I don't want to, I don't want to end up like one of these Biden Kamala voters who's like, I couldn't hit the serve 100 miles an hour, so I'm doing chalk every day. The chalk daily is fantastic. I've also got chalk's chad mode, which if you can't hit 100 miles an hour with chad mode, and I don't even know how fast you can pitch, but it'll add some, add some mph there for you too, or whatever you're doing. Bowling, apparently Clay's a great bowler, which we need.
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Buck Sexton
I'm not bad for bowling. Honestly, kind of not a sport that you want to brag about being good at, but I'm. I'm pretty solid.
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Clay Travis
So my point here is chalk is just going to help you across the board. C H O Q. That's C H O Q. And when you use my name, Buck, you get a massive discount on any subscription for life. You can cancel if you want to, but you're not going to want to do that. The chalk is amazing. The male vitality stack. That's where I would start. Friends can. Can increase testosterone markedly. Go check it out. Choq.com promo code Buck. And hit that 100 mile an hour serve. You don't know what you don't know, right?
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Clay Travis
On the Sunday hang with Clay and Buck podcast, let's take a look at what is going on with Mr. Gavin Newsom for a second, shall we? And this is going to transition into also my commodities deep dive. As I was reading the memoir last.
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Buck Sexton
Night, it was very. How late did you stay up with your friend Kamala's book?
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Clay Travis
I spent a solid hour before I went to bed just reading. I was very excited. It had automatically downloaded to my Kindle because I was a pre purchaser. So I got to, I got to pump those numbers.
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Buck Sexton
What is your. What is your wife think when she comes to get in bed and you are just curled up comfortably reading Kamala Harris's book? Does she make fun of you at all? What is her take on this?
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Clay Travis
I could come up with something clever to say here, but the truth is the baby's been waking up about every hour all night long. So she's just thinking, how are we going to get through the night?
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Buck Sexton
So you are now because for a while there, you had angel baby that was sleeping perfectly on.
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Clay Travis
So I'm just going to tell you guys this because, yeah, okay, maybe I need to, you know, learn a little humility on this one. As a new parent, a lot of people are like, oh, are you okay in the first three, four months? And I was like, okay, the baby is adorable and sleeps seven, eight hours a night, every night. It was just like, we didn't do anything. The baby just sleeps. And I told my sister this, you know, I've got a little nephew. And she had a very tough sleep schedule kind of baby situation. And she couldn't believe it. She's like, what do you mean your baby sleeps seven? I said, look, he just. I don't know what to tell you. The baby just. I've had. No. How many times have I showed Up Clay and said, you all not getting any sleep? And I'm like, no, it's been fine. That has changed in the last month. It has been. It has been. And now Carrie's taking the brunt of it. But I, you know, I try to help out and I'm also in the. In the room when she's getting up to go tend to the baby. I understand what you parents are talking about when you're like, are you okay? Yeah. Now I need people to ask if I'm okay. Because the sleep situation, I mean, Carrie's a trooper put pushing through all this every hour. I don't, you know, just every hour a little guy's waking up. I mean, he's. I think it's called a sleep regression. They say the five month or six month sleep regression.
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Buck Sexton
I've heard it's very common. Our first was. I get. Laura was an unbelievable trooper with our oldest. It was. It was brutal how bad he was at sleeping.
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Clay Travis
But it was funny to me because for a few months, little baby speed was just always smiling and so happy and just sleeping and so smiley. And people were like, how are you guys doing? And I was like, this is amazing. And I have 10 more of these. Like, this is now. I'm like, this parenting is tough. This could be. This could be a little bit of a challenge sometimes. So I've learned. I've learned the. The curve has bent in the other direction right now for the effort and the challenges here. Okay, now to. Oh, so, yes, I was reading Kamala. Look, reading this thing, I want to get into a more fulsome discussion of it when we're more focused on. On where Kamala is and all this. I would just say it. It is very boring. And it is very clear that she. I don't even know if she spent any time at all even telling the ghostwriters what to write. This thing is. Is a book by committee. It's got a couple of people, probably three or four writers who are working on it or something. Kamala didn't write a word of it. Now, I know that's not unusual, but it just comes across as completely. Just like. It's just so inauthentic. It's.
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Buck Sexton
I figured that it would read like it was a. Like a McKinsey consulting platform where eight different people have all weighed in and it's just bland and inauthentic.
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Clay Travis
Well, and she. And she knew. I mean, I'll tell. So this is the phase of the book that I'm in. The phase of the book is Kamala discussing the lead up to her becoming the nominee. And I'm only a few chapters in. I didn't read that much last night. And also the. The disastrous debate. And of course she's like, I, I was worried about him going into this debate. And, and by the way, she affirms what I had said all along, because people were saying that they pushed him to debate so they could push him out. That's absolutely. That made no sense. That's absolutely not true. His advisors thought. And this is from Kamala. Now, I understand this is in a book. So it's all, you know, this is. In intelligence circles, you would say this is meant to influence as well as inform. Right. This is not just someone giving you information. They're trying to create a narrative. I get that. But this is Kamala Harris saying, oh, the advisers thought that they could just get through this one night and then it would all be fine. And she claims in the book that, that she was of the mind that Joe should just not debate at all. Because basically all of the strategizing, Clay, if I may say so, that I was doing from a Democrat mindset, he shouldn't debate. It's a disaster. Trump didn't debate. He should just. She says, whether you believe or not, she agreed with that and that a few of Biden's inner circle were convinced that he would be able to not be okay for months, but for one night he could pull it off.
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Buck Sexton
And they said, look, they said in original sin.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, they really. So that just to be clear, everybody that really was. They thought they could, you know, hoodwink everybody. They thought they could bamboozle us one more time. And that's all they had to do. So it was a giant roll of the dice and it came up snake eyes. Right, Mr. Gambling Man. That's bad.
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Buck Sexton
That's correct.
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Clay Travis
You don't want the snake eyes. Thank you. So that's one part of it that I thought was interesting so far. I'll give you more, comma, comologist analysis as I get further and deeper into the book. I also mentioned that I am going to be. Clay is solo on the radio next week and I was going to wait until Thursday to talk about this, but I can talk a little bit. Today I am going to on a fact finding mission to Taiwan. I am scheduled to meet with some of the most senior people in the Taiwanese government. I want to speak to them, Clay, about national security with China and how that's looking, how the Trump administration is doing vis a vis, not just Taiwanese but regional relations. How do the Taiwanese feel about allies like Japan in this moment and where, you know, how do they feel about the future? By the way, this is the most important national security flashpoint and the most important economic choke point in the world right now. Taiwan makes 90% of the top end chips, silicon. The silicon wafers that are needed to make an integrated circuit, essentially they make 90% of the top end ones and 60% of overall. Clay, none of the smart tech that we have anywhere can function without Taiwanese production. Nowhere else in the world can they make this stuff. And China is saying they're going to take this island in the next two years. So I talked to Clay about this. I said, clay, I just, you know, I'm going on my own time, but it's also on behalf of the show because I'm going to be interviewing people and I'm going to be. And Clay said, go for it. Originally we were going to go together, but we realized the logistics of that were going to be a little, a little more challenging. But so I will be out next week, but I'll be in Taiwan trying to find out as much as I can about what I think in the next two years will be the most important geopolitical challenge in the world. I mean, Ukraine is already a hot war, and we got to figure out how to wind that thing down. But I think that's just going to grind on for another few years. I don't think it's going to change very much. This is a situation, Clay, with China you've talked about. Remember when they, when they hit Iran, Iran with the reactors and also when the Ukraine war started, you're like, maybe China's going to go for it. China goes for Taiwan in any meaningful way. We have a. We wake up in a different world, truly, all of us, all of you, whether you care about foreign policy or not, the markets will, the markets will be absolutely rocked. You'll see trillions of dollars of wealth evaporate. I mean, it's, it's scary stuff. So I want to know what's going. Look, hopefully none of that happens. They continue a sort of status quo and everything is great. But I think this is, you know, part of what we do on the show is try to get ahead of where things are going. I'm telling you, this is going to be a big issue, and it's going to be a big issue that the Trump administration has to figure out. We're not just going to be able to backburner this.
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Buck Sexton
So that's a big trip, that's a long airplane flight. So you are headed over there all of next week and then you'll be back. Maybe you'll send some stuff in from Taiwan, but that I'm, I'm hoping to.
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Clay Travis
Get some high level interviews. You know, it's not, it's not all set in stone because they've got some very important stuff going on over there. But I am going, you know, and we're going to air some, some of it on the show, assuming that the people that I'm trying to sit down with will sit down with me. But we're just gonna learn as much as we can over there. And that's the, that's the plan. So I'm really forward to. Go ahead.
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Buck Sexton
No, I was gonna say, do you want to play Gavin Newsom here? Because we started off with. You were gonna play.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I, I digress. But I realized I let the Taiwan thing rip when I was talking to Jim Jordan. It's kind of like when some of you found out that I was having a real Carrie, but we were having a baby. Because the top of the show, it just, it bled into the audio and I was like, well, you know, things.
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Buck Sexton
That of all the things that could have leaked, the fact that you were having a baby was the thing that leaked off.
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Clay Travis
It was very nice. Honestly, it was very touching because my inbox and mentions and everything was just full of wonderful listeners who were saying the sweetest things about the fact that we were expecting a little, a little baby boy. But it was funny because I was going to do like a real announcement about it and I just kind of let it fly in an off moment. Break the clay. And it went on the air. Okay, Gavin Newsom, back to, back to the meat and potatoes here of the news cycle. Gavin Newsom here. He is saying the kind of stuff that really ticks me off, but this is very normal for him that we're not even going to have. This is 19, not going to have an election in 28.
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- [46:12]
Clay Travis
See, what is that? What is he really doing here? Saying that he in his soul believes we're not even going to have an election in 2028. Like, what's the play as you see it?
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Buck Sexton
First of all, I went on Twitter and I reiterated what I said the last time he said this. I will put $10 million up against Gavin. He can get it from his donors that we will have an election in 2028. I don't even. I think the Democrat base eats this up and I think this is already starting the race in 2028. I think that's the reality. He can't possibly believe this. If you believe it, why are you already effectively running for president? What does he think that's going to happen, that Trump's going to announce win? First of all, because the presidential race is going to start in January of 27 in earnest, and by January of 28 will have the primaries actually starting. So when exactly would Trump cancel the 2028 election? I think Trump's going to eat up the 2028 election because he's going to see it as some form of an apprentice. It's a reality television show made for him to be the kingmaker on the Republican side of the equation and probably to weigh in a lot on the Democrat side of the equation, too. I just, I look at this and I think that it must be that the base of the Democrat Party is so crazy that telling them that Trump is going to cancel elections in some way paradoxically makes Gavin Newsom a bigger favorite in 2028. So that's the motivation, I think what's going on here. He clearly does not believe it. And this is part and parcel, unfortunately, of why we're getting all these left wing political attacks. Because enough of the base of the Democrat Party believes this that they're willing to kill Charlie Kirk and that they're willing to try to kill President Trump and that they are willing to frankly burn down Josh Shapiro's governor's mansion. By the way, that was left wing political violence, too, even addressed against Democrats. There is a lot of crazy. There are a lot of crazy people out there. And the Democrat base is overwhelmingly made up of a lot of crazy people. And they want to hear this. Fear porn is. I think it titillates them. I think it drives them. And Gavin Newsom is playing on it even though he knows it's untrue, which is, I think, one of the most dishonest things a politician can do. And it's one thing, if you actually have a strong opinion that might be controversial, we might disagree with. I think Bernie Sanders has a lot of opinions that he truly believes that are wrong, and I disagree with him, but I at least respect his right to make the argument. Gavin Newsom doesn't believe this. He's lying. He just knows it's politically advantageous to say it, and he's trying to take advantage of it. And that's the reality. And it's hard to respect anybody adopting that perspective.
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Clay Travis
Some of these lunatic Democrats that you'll hear, I think they actually believe the lunatic stuff, lunatic stuff that they say. I don't think Gavin Newsom believes one iota a scintilla of this nonsense, but he's just playing them for fools.
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Buck Sexton
And there's $10 million. Take me up on it, Gavin. I feel really good about me winning the 10 million. I'll donate it to people out there so they can sue First Amendment cases. He's not going to respond because he's a liar and he knows that this is a lie. When your identity's stolen online, there's not a lot you can do. Sure, you can call your local police department, file a report, but that's not going to solve the problem. Cyber hackers know this move fast. Once they steal your personal info, they start racking up charges on your credit card or open accounts in your name. For all these reasons, you want LifeLock. LifeLock monitors millions of data points online, looking for evidence that some scammer has your info and is using it illegally. If you do become a victim of identity theft, the dedicated US based LifeLock Restoration Specialist will fix it, guaranteed, or your money back. It's important to understand how cybercrime and identity theft are affecting our lives. And a LifeLock membership protects your online info better than all the others. Join now. Say 40% off your first year with promo Code Clay. It's not easy to deal with the fallout from identity theft, but it is easy to protect yourself with LifeLock. Go online to LifeLock.com use promo code CLAY for 40% off. You can also call 1-800-lifelock terms apply. News and politics. But also a little comic relief, Clay.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're joined now by Senator Rick Scott of Florida. We'll get into a bunch of different stories from him, But Vice President J.D. vance just spoke about the shooting that occurred earlier today at the Dallas ICE facility. And this is what he said. And then we will bring in Senator Scott because I'm curious how he would respond to this. Here is J.D. vance.
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When you go around and lie about our law enforcement and you tell them that they're mistreating five year old girls, what do you think is going to happen when Democratic politicians incur doxing, when they encourage us to unmask ICE enforcement officers? What do you think is going to happen when the mayor of Los Angeles encourages violent protesters to get in the face of our law enforcement? What do you think is going to happen? What's going to happen is political violence and political violence has gotten out of control in this country. We got to stop it, we got to condemn it. And that starts unfortunately at the very top of the Democratic Party. If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want to stop, stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror. That's the way that we stop political violence in this country.
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Buck Sexton
I agree with everything JD Vance, Vice President of the United States said there. I suspect that you do as well. Senator Rick Scott, your reaction to that here as we start the interview with you?
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Senator Rick Scott
Absolutely. You know, it makes you mad. When I was Governor, we lost 51 members of law enforcement. And you go to their funerals. These are, this is a family, once their own personal family, then law enforcement is a family. And they, unfortunately, under Democrats, under Democrat rule, under Democrat rhetoric, they attack our law enforcement. What do you want in your house? You know, you want, if somebody breaks in, you want somebody to show up, who shows up, whether they know you or not, it's law enforcement. You want to make sure your school is safe for your kid, go get a job. You want to make a room, make sure the restaurant's safe, who does it for you? Law enforcement, you might never know. So Democrats have got to stop this attack on law enforcement. I grew up in a country where if my mom thought I would ever talk back to a law enforcement or say something bad about him, I got the biggest whipping in the world. I would never have done that. I bring my grandkids. When we see, when they see law enforcement, they thank them. That's what everybody in this country ought to be doing, say, thank God somebody's willing to put on the uniform and defend our freedoms and defend our safety. So these Democrats have got to Stop this rhetoric, Mike. Principally, Kirk is dead.
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Clay Travis
Okay, Senator Scott, we're gonna have to have you call back in because the. I. I. Clay, I don't know if you could hear. I cannot hear what he's saying on the line.
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Buck Sexton
This is one of those things where I just. I look around, and I'm like, cell phones are never just gonna work perfectly, are they?
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Clay Travis
Like, I guess not.
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Buck Sexton
I don't know what's going on. Twenty years ago, we would have thought, hey, the signals will eventually be flawless. Like, but it's amazing how often you can't have a normal conversation on a cell phone.
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Clay Travis
Now, maybe Elon will fix that. You know, Maybe Elon will all have sat phones, essentially. I remember that was such a thing when I was overseas 20 years ago at the agency to have a satellite phone. I was like, oh. And it was, you know, $16aminute or something to actually talk to anybody on it. You would think that we would get to a place where this stuff would all work much more. We got him back. We can hear him now because I want to hear what the good senator has to say.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Yeah.
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Senator Rick Scott
So we. We have got to stand up for our law enforcement, and the Democrats have got to stop this riot. Don't their families want to be safe? Don't their voters want to be safe? Don't their children.
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Clay Travis
Wait, but, Senator, let me ask you this. Hold on a second. Because Gavin Newsom in California, I know that the law doesn't go into effect until January. And I assume that they're smart enough to know that they can't tell federal law enforcement how they can tactically do their jobs. The state of California. But what. I mean, what message could be more clear than what he's saying, which is the governor of America's largest state, Gavin Newsom, is telling everybody that these are basically fascist stormtroopers and they're hiding their identities because there's something immoral about enforcing immigration law.
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Senator Rick Scott
Look, they might have a mask because they're scared to death of people like Gavin Newsom. That's telling people, right, to attack law enforcement. Don't cooperate with them, get in their face. I mean, who. I mean, like, doesn't Gavin Newsom care about the citizens of his state? Like, I was governor of Florida. You know what I wanted? I wanted every family to be safe. I wanted every business to be safe. I wanted every restaurant, every school to be safe. So why doesn't Gavin Newsom care about the people in the state, about their safety? That's what I don't get. You don't build a business. You don't want your kids to go to school. You don't want to live in a community that is unsafe. Support law enforcement. It's real simple. They will defend your freedom and your safety.
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Buck Sexton
We're talking to Senator Rick Scott of Florida. A lot of discussion. I was texting with Senator Ron Johnson a little bit earlier about the potential for a shutdown. He's got a piece up in the Wall Street Journal about ways to end this conflict once and for all. What should our listeners know about the latest battle over funding the government?
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Senator Rick Scott
Well, here's the way it works. We only need a majority in the House, but we have to have 60 votes in the Senate. Chuck Schumer, for whatever godforsaken reason, wants to shut down government so some services will be stopped beginning at midnight September 30th. That's what he wants. That's what he wants. He doesn't care. He wants to shut down government. Well, Ron Johnson's proposing, which is really smart. Let's just make sure that we just keep funding government. We should have done our budget bills, which we haven't done, again this year, which we should have done. But if we don't, then we'll just continue to keep government open. And last year's funding, which is too high. I want a balanced budget, but it's better than shut down, shutting down government and shutting down services. And by the way, federal workers, when they don't come to work, they still get paid. How crazy is that? When you don't go to work, you don't get paid. But federal workers, which I love them, right? We have a shutdown, they get paid. That doesn't make any sense. They don't get paid until we go back to work. But they don't come to work and they get paid. This makes no sense. That's why Ron's, Ron Jones Johnson's proposal is very smart. They will never have the Chuck Schumer shutdowns.
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Clay Travis
Senator Scott, how is the confirmation process going in the Senate for Trump nominees there? We had, I think, talked to you about this a few months ago. There have been a lot of concerns raised for those who are paying attention, that Democrats are doing everything except pull the, pull the fire alarm, so to speak, to try to prevent nominees from getting through. Has that process started to work a little bit more efficiently? Are you getting Trump's picks in place? How's that been going in the Senate side?
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Senator Rick Scott
You know, it's like they don't, they don't think that Trump should have Anybody work with him. So he needs to put together a team. That's what presidents do.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Right.
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Senator Rick Scott
This is the first time in the history of the country that the opposing party of the president will do everything they can to block all nominees. I don't care who the nominee is. And so what we've had to do in the Senate is we had to change the rules because the Democrats are blocking every, every, every nominee, even nominees that they will vote for. They've been blocking. They don't want.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
They don't.
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Senator Rick Scott
So we've changed the rules. We got quite a few of our nominees approved last week. We will be back next week and we'll get. My goal, I think the goal is we're going to have over 100 nominees done in the next 10 days. So we've got to get Trump's nominees done. And we, you know, unfortunately, what Chuck Schumer is doing with all these antics is he saying the Senate was set up to force us to work together. He's just saying, no way. You know, we don't ever have to work together anymore because Chuck Schumer is going to fight everything. And so we have to change the rules to get anything done. Schumer needs to go.
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Buck Sexton
What do you think about the Trump Library on a positive side here? I mentioned this to Buck. He lives in Miami. Of your constituents now, Senator, I spend a lot of time in Florida as well. What does it say about the state of Florida, the trajectory of the country overall, that a big city like Miami, I think a lot of people listening to us right now in Miami are saying, this is great. We're going to have the Trump Presidential Library here. What does it say about Miami? What does it say about Florida?
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Senator Rick Scott
Well, Florida has become the center of the Republican Party. You look at his whole team, so many of them, Pam Bondi, Susie Wild, so many of them come out of Florida. So he, and you know, as you know, the president moved out of New York and moved down to Florida. So I hope, you know, whether it's in Palm beach, whether it's in Miami, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be in, I can't imagine it's not going to be in Florida. I know the piece of property they're talking about, Miami. I was just down at the Freedom Tower just the other day that they've completely recently redone. That's where all the Cuban refugees were processed when they were coming in the 60s and 70s. So I, you know, look where, wherever it is, I look forward to bringing my Grandkids there to see it.
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Buck Sexton
One last question for you, Jimmy Kimmel, the, the story surrounding that as we're talking to you, Next Star and Sinclair, local affiliates are not carrying the show. And they just said you, you come out of the business world. Next Star is continuing to evaluate and we're engaged in discussions. We want diverse interest of the communities we serve to be reflected and respected. What should happen here in your mind, what's the right solution?
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Senator Rick Scott
Well, they don't make a business decision. Jimmy Kimmel has become just toxic. His audience has gone down. People are saying they don't want to see it. Like, I remember when Johnny Carson had a show and Jay Leonardo, they were funny.
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Congressman Jim Jordan
Right.
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Senator Rick Scott
This is just toxic with guys like Jimmy Kimmel do. So I've never seen a show. I don't plan on watching a show. I assume that they're making a decision. Is this good for our audience and is it fiscal? Is it financially beneficial? And think about it. If it's not, you think, why would they keep him on the air? So I heard his audience, his viewership has gone way down. So I don't know why I'm not going to watch it. I don't know why Republicans would ever watch the guy. He just, he doesn't, I mean, what he, what he said about Charlie Kirk was, it was just completely inappropriate. It was. I mean, Charlie was a friend of mine. I did a show most Mondays and for anybody to, to say that what they said. So it's just toxic.
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Clay Travis
Senator, appreciate you being here. Yep.
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Senator Rick Scott
Yeah. All right. Well, it's going to get better. So I'm, I'm very optimistic. We're gonna make it better.
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Clay Travis
Thank you.
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Buck Sexton
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