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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
Welcome in, everybody, to the Monday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. We have a lot to discuss. I'll line it all up for you here in a second. But first up, President Trump in the Oval Office right now, addressing the nation, answering questions. Let's go to the big guy live.
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Donald Trump
The first tobacco lawsuit. And he's a great man. And he, he's brought back hundreds of people out of various Belarus. You know, you read about that. And the leader has been fantastic. But somebody has to ask him. Biden never asked. We asked and we were getting hundreds of people out of confinement and prison that shouldn't be there, and hundreds, and many of them aren't even citizens of the United States. They're people that have been captured in some form, ministers, people that are really innocent people and they're being held captive. And I bring up Jimmy Lai now, Jimmy Lai, you know, caused a lot of bedlam. I don't know. It's like saying to me, if Comey ever went to jail, would you let him out? It might be a hard one for me. Does that make sense? It might be hard because he's a dirty cop, but Jimmy Lai is in that way. But Jimmy Lai, he caused lots of turmoil for China. He tried to do the right thing. He wasn't successful, went to jail. And people would like him out. And I'd like to see him get out, too. So I'll bring him up again. I have brought him up. There's another gentleman, a pastor, as you know, with a beautiful daughter and son in law that we'd like to see him get out. I'm going to bring his name up. Mr. President, what about Taiwan? Do you expect Taiwan to come up in your. Yeah, it always comes up. Yeah, it always comes up. It's, I used to say Ukraine would, you know, four years, you never even heard the word Ukraine. It was never going to happen and it was handled so badly. Ukraine, Ukraine should have never come up. They lost last month, 25,000 soldiers, both sides, 25,000. They're losing on average 25,000 soldiers. It's like a meat grinder. It's horrible what's happening. That would have never happened had the election not been rigged. That would have never happened. And Putin and I would talk about it, but there was never any. He would have never done it. Taiwan, I equated a little bit to that. You have the right president. I don't think it'll happen. I think we'll be fine. I have a very good relationship with President Xi, knows I don't want that to happen. Very far away. Very, very far away. Just at 9,500 miles. We're 9,500 miles. He's 67 miles. It's a little bit of a difference, but, you know, there's a lot of. There's a lot of support for Taiwan from Japan and from countries from that area.
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Buck Sexton
Do you think we should still be
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Donald Trump
selling them, whether it's the United States? Well, I'm going to have that discussion with President Xi. President Xi would like us not to. And I'll have that discussion. That's one of the many things I'll be talking about. Well, you know, he and I have gotten along well, other than with COVID I, you know, I was not, I was, I was just not accepting of what happened with COVID But other than that, he and I have had. He's a great gentleman. I find him to be an amazing, an amazing man. And when I say that, the press always says, oh, that's terrible. That he called it. You know, he runs 1.4 billion people with a pretty iron fist. He's. He loves his country. I can tell you that. President Xi, I look forward to being there. And if he felt anything, we wouldn't, we wouldn't be doing it. But a lot of good things can happen now. We'll be talking about. I mean, he'll bring up Taiwan, I think more than I will, but I think that a discussion will be a little bit about. A little bit about energy and about the very beautiful country of Iran. And by the way, Iran is a beautiful country, but it's got people running it now that shouldn't be there. Perhaps.
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Olivia (Health Expert)
Mr. President, just a couple questions. Outside of these amazing benefits from employers for ivf, there are a lot of women out there who either they work part time or they self pay for health insurance. Is there an option for cheaper ibs?
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Donald Trump
And what would you like to know for ivf?
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Olivia (Health Expert)
Bring it down to the cost that's associated.
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Donald Trump
I don't know. Olivia, could you answer that question, please? We're Trying to make putting her through a little training at tongue, see whether or not she's got it. I have no doubt she just a
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Buck Sexton
softball from the president and healthy moms helping babies.
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Donald Trump
Let's give this one to Olivia.
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Olivia (Health Expert)
We are focused on making America the safest and best place to have a baby.
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Donald Trump
The IVF question I think can probably
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Olivia (Health Expert)
be better hit by Senator Brisk and
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Martha Stewart
Dr. Fink and others.
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Olivia (Health Expert)
Yeah. So what we're trying to do is obviously make sure that people have greater access and the affordability goes down. We did that obviously, with what you saw from the president last year, the two different announcements he made. We've seen, you know, over gosh, I mean, thousands of people have more access with regards to affordability. I think we've saved about $15 million. But we know that this is going to go up to the tunes of billions of dollars from what we're doing here with being able to allow employers to do this. We think it will ultimately drive down to each and every person. So that is the point. The more that people are able, we want to get, as Secretary Kennedy said, we want to get to root causes as well. So we want to make sure that we are treating the entire issue, not just putting a band aid on it and moving on. We want people who want to bring life into the world to have that opportunity. We do believe that this will do that. So a combination of allowing this to be available, but then also the affordability element, I think it's down, as he said. I mean, some of These drugs down 80% from a year ago, some down 40% over a year ago. So it's a really exciting time. And we do think that this will ultimately be able to reach all Americans,
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Donald Trump
but a lot of people don't realize it's available. I spoke to people, they don't know about the Trump, they don't know about any of these things, you know, where you're saving so much money, where they can actually afford it. You know, when you get prices down to just a tiny fraction of what they used to be. That's one of the reasons I don't need it for myself. I got enough publicity, but I needed to inform the public. A lot of people, like your question is a good question, but a lot of people don't know IVF and so many other things that could help them that they assume it's so expensive, it's not within their price range and they're not going to be able to afford it or even think about it. And then they hear about these numbers and in addition, there's some help that we give them beyond even the low numbers.
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Buck Sexton
Mr. President, only one in three Americans
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Donald Trump
know what TrumpRx.gov does.
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Buck Sexton
It would be a great service. I know he kids you a lot
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Donald Trump
about this not getting
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Buck Sexton
appropriately, but there is no excuse to buy drugs.
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Donald Trump
Make sure you get into that.
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Buck Sexton
President Trump, they are addressing a whole range of things. Talking about IVF in the most recent soundbites you were hearing there and the efforts the administration is currently making to change things up. This wasn't. This came on right before this is Cut one. But just so you understand why there's this focus on, on in vitro fertilization, Trump was saying that the Department of Labor has a new rule that they are putting for this is cut one. Listen to what he said just before we came on air.
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Donald Trump
Most health care plans do not cover these benefits. But today I'm pleased to announce that the Department of Labor is issuing a new rule to formally create a fertility benefit option for employers that can be offered to all employees outside of their normal health insurance plans. It's a big deal. They were not properly taken care of. Katie Britt knows that better than anybody who called me and said, I must say I shouldn't admit this, but the first time I really heard about the fertility was through Katie. She said, sir, we have to do something. And I'm a quick study. So I learned everything there is to learn in about three, four minutes. And I became the father of fertility.
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Buck Sexton
There is Trump once again saying he's the father of fertility, or in previous times, he has said he is the father of ivf, which is a very Trumpian turn of phrase. But he's trying to focus, as you can see here, on things that affect people back here in America. There was some talk about, about Iran, which I will get to briefly. No real movement on that other than Trump is essentially saying, we've got them where we want them, they're going to have to capitulate. But there's also this point about Trump, rx.gov, you know, we often talk about gas prices on the show because gas prices are high. We all know this. We all have been dialed into the rise in gas prices since the Iran war began. And Trump is obviously looking at the midterms, and the political calculations here are quite clear. And he's saying, okay, what can we do not only to bring down gas prices, but to give people relief in a whole range of ways. And this is where we get to trump rx.gov where he's saying that there are a whole range of prescription drugs that are available at really phenomenal prices, but specifically also fertility medicine Play cut, too.
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Donald Trump
But since we launched a website just a few months ago, over 19,000Americans have used those fertility medicines and discounts and saved more than $15 million just in a short period of time, a matter of weeks. The Council of Economic Advisors projects that the number will rise to $4.6 billion over a fairly small number of years. Nobody's ever seen anything like this.
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Buck Sexton
$15 million in just a few weeks. He's saying the financial implications of this for everyday Americans are very substantial. And this is something that I don't think has gotten quite the attention that it should. The fact that he is setting up specifically, through better negotiation on the actual pricing of these drugs, places where Americans can go and can actually get real relief. Because prescription drug prices, we don't hear that much about it, as much about it these days. If you remember, it was one of the big reasons, or rather I should say one of the big things that Obamacare promised to handle. And there's been these different changes made to Medicare and Medicaid and what's included in the formulation. What's not included, all formularies, rather, all these different things. Fundamentally, the American people have grown sick of subsidizing the rest of the world's prescription drugs, while we have these incredibly high prices here. You go to Canada, you go to Europe, things cost a whole lot less. But I also think that Trump's focus on fertility, and I know that this is an area that people feel very passionately about in a whole range of ways, but the focus on just having more children, we'll put it that way, is something that America needs. We do need to be having more kids. As a people, we unfortunately got convinced, I think, through culture, and it's really hit my generation. So now people who are in their 40s, maybe in their early 50s, harder than anybody, anybody else, this notion that women should delay childbearing or maybe even just push them away from having kids at all. I think this has been enormously harmful to America as a society, but also just demographically. We have started to mirror some of these societies like Japan and South Korea, that have nowhere near the numbers of people they need to perpetuate to propagate their own society. This is. People will talk on the left about climate change as being an existential threat, which of course is absurd.
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Donald Trump
This is.
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Buck Sexton
Demography is existential, because we are either here or we're not. There's either enough of US or there's not. And this has also been used as one of the reasons to push bringing in people from the third world, which a lot of Americans are really tired of hearing, because we actually would like more Americans first. Instead of saying we're just going to allow in, nevermind pick and choose, allow in anyone who comes here from anywhere around the west, the rest of the world and just pillages this place as the giant and open welfare state that it is. Enough is enough. So the encouragement to have children, I think everyone should be 100% behind. And I think that the expansion of IVF through government policy is going to result in more kids and more people having kids. And there is a societal cost, there is some understanding we should have that if you have a family member or if you are a woman who is, I would say, you know, 35, although you can still have kids in your 30s, but if you're into your 40s and into your 50s now and you felt like you never had kids, maybe you never even got married and you were lied to by the society around you about how it's more important to make VP at the marketing firm and you know, kids are a drag and go to brunch and eat the avocado toast with your girlfriends, the whole sort of eat, pray, love, sex in the city view of femininity and womanhood. Disastrous, absolutely disastrous for women. Yes, people can make their own choices. Yes, some women are going to tell you, I'm so happy that I never got married, I never had kids, I never started a family. They are the exception, the dramatic exception. And a lot of people who tell you that are lying because they can't actually face the reality of the choice that they've made. That's just the truth. And we need to have these kinds of conversations as a country so that we can actually have a better future, so that our kids can live in a place where children are encouraged and cherished. And to that end, your Mother's Day celebration this past weekend was likely different than that of the 80,000 new moms who relied on the preborn network of clinics this past year. Those moms were debating at one point the future of their unborn child. They were actually contemplating whether to give life to the womb, to the baby growing in their womb, or choose abortion. And this is why so often moms who go to these preborn clinics, they are making this critical choice. And so many of them make the choice after they have the ultrasound that preborn gives them. Preborn's network of clinics nationwide give ultrasounds to expectant moms so they can meet the tiny baby growing in their womb. And then the choice for life becomes so much easier, so much more likely by the numbers. And in this way, in just spreading the truth and God's love, Preborn is helping save babies day after day. Just $28 provides one ultrasound and it could save a life. $140 reaches five expectant mothers. Preborn empowers women to be moms. It's only the beginning, because that moment leads to real support from preborn, maternity care, baby clothes, diapers, counseling, and so much more. To get involved, simply dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 say baby or visit preborn.combuck that's preborn.comb U C K Sponsored by Preborn Common sense never sounded so good.
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Martha Stewart
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Clay will be with us shortly, by the way. He was on a flight that got a bit delayed. We just had President Trump there, who was addressing the nation about a range of issues really focusing in on this IVF coverage expansion, essentially saying that IVF services for women are going to be substantially less expensive. And there's things that Trump is doing to just bring down prices of overall prescriptions, but specifically some of the drugs needed for IVF are very, very pricey. He also spoke about Iran and what is going on there. So let's. This is cut 33. Here is Trump on the ceasefire with Iran as it stands right now. Play it. For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.
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Donald Trump
It's unbelievably weak, I would say. I would call it the weakest right now after reading that piece of garbage they sent us. I didn't even finish reading it. They said, I'm going to waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. They understand. These are all medical people, Dr. Oz. Life support is not a good thing. Do you agree? Diagnostic? I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.
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Buck Sexton
So he's saying that we have the upper hand and if we just continue to allow things to play out here, we will be getting to the conclusion of Iran having to throw in, throw in the towel, so to speak. And I don't think, think that this is something that the Iranians necessarily are sharing as a point of view right now. My sense is the Iranians may well continue to hold on here thinking that if they can get this into June or July with high gas prices, they will sacrifice their own economy in order to cause political pain here at home. We'll see. But Trump doesn't seem bothered by this other than to say the ceasefire. He's saying the ceasefire is absolutely hanging by a thread. All right, my friends, PureTalk, that's who you should go with for your cell phone service. Unlimited cell phone Data is now just 34, 99amonth. That's the new low monthly cost of unlimited high speed data cell phone service from PureTalk and that's likely a huge savings from the plan you're currently on. 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Covered a whole bunch of things there come back into some other pieces but the main, the main takeaways are one, Trump is the quote, father of iv, IVF as he calls it. He is pushing to make more. Well, he wants Americans to have more babies. And this is a great mission. Now we can talk about the best ways to get there and everything else, but we need to have more kids. Everybody, some of you saying Buck you only have one. Well, we're working on it. We're trying to do more. If I have my way, we'll get to three or four. At least. least. So, you know, God willing, we can't make these things happen, as you all know. You can't snap fingers. Clay's got three kids, and I. And by the way, I'm very sympathetic to. I have a lot of friends that have struggled with fertility issues, and people make these assumptions like, oh, you put your career well. No, some people just have a. Have it. Have a problem. You know, there's a genetic issue and some kind of a. A challenge that they have to deal with, and I'm incredibly sympathetic to that. I have so many friends who have been through that, and, well, a lot of them also feel like they were lied to because they were told, don't worry, this is like a light switch that at age 40, as a woman or a guy, you can just hit the light switch, and now the baby happens. It's not how it works. And you actually want to be having. They should be honest with people about this. You want to be having kids, biologically speaking. Biologically speaking, you want to be having kids in your 20s. In your 20s. Yeah. That's true for the men as well, I might add. Your. Your. Let's just say, your gear. Even if you can have kids Mick Jagger style, when you're like 8, isn't he, like, 80 and he just had a kid or something? It's better. More. More efficient, less likely to have problems for the. For the baby. If you do. If you make babies in your 20s, you know, early 30s or, you know, around there, but waiting into your 40s. You know, I just think that I can only speak from my perspective. I know so many women who were pushed culturally away from having kids until they reached some imaginary milestone of professionalism, and then it was supposed to happen, and a lot of them have had trouble having kids. And so there's a big conversation, and there's a lot of pieces to it. I will just say we got to have more babies in America. And that is absolutely the case. And that's something that I've learned now that I'm older. And my favorite little person in the whole wide world is my little son. And I just want as many people as possible to experience that joy. And, you know, there's also the culture of, okay, well, not everyone can have kids, but, you know, everyone can be a really involved aunt or uncle. Everyone can be a godfather, a godparent, a grandparent. Who's, you know, super involved. You know what I mean? The family can be a part of that, the child's life within the family, beyond just the mom and the dad. And I think that's something that should also really be encouraged. I'm actually a fan of multi generational households. I think that the grandparents being as close as possible, if not, if not in the same house, as close as possible, when feasible, is a good thing. You know, just like everything else. It's not about what's always true, it's about what is usually true. You know, when you're setting policy or when you're encouraging 350 million people to act a certain way, there's always going to be exceptions, you know, but as a friend of mine who is a fitness influencer says, when I tell people to take walks, I'm not trying to offend people with no legs. I'm just trying to encourage the 99% of people who can take walks to take walks. And that's the reality of having more children, is we want to be a society that is fostering this, encouraging this as much as possible. By the way, even if someone doesn't like kids, they have to acknowledge, which I think is a bizarre, you know, even more bizarre than not liking dogs. Even if someone says, well, I don't really like kids, our society will collapse. We cannot be America if we are not having American children. That's where we are. So I think Trump taking this on is very important. I like that he is making these initiatives front and center and there's a lot to do there. Okay. The LA Mayor's race is fascinating and we're going to have some people coming on to join. I'm just checking to see. Oh, today we have Senator Jim Banks in the second hour and we've. Alex Berenson in the third hour talked us about some things. I told you guys not to worry about the hantavirus. Let me just add the latest that I saw the reporting on this was that they think that the, the patient zero, I mean, the guy who might have been the first one to catch this strain of hantavirus is a. Is an ornithologist who visited a dump in Argentina, a trash dump, because there's so many birds that gather around it, but there's also a lot of mice. This is what I saw online. I don't know if this is the, you know, if this is where it's all going to end up. Remember in the beginning of the COVID thing, they told us it was pangolins and we all had to look up what a pangolin was. And no, it was actually the virus institute down the street that was doing gain of function research, as we know, even though we were told we couldn't say that at the time. But the hantavirus thing, we're. I think we're going to be okay. We're very fortunate. Think about this though. We are very fortunate that a disease that is as nasty as hantavirus has low transmissibility. I mean, if you had hantavirus with the transmissibility of something like measles, we would, we would be in like a 28 days later. For those who've seen the movie situation, it would get really bad here. Okay. Things would. So we're fortunate in that sense. Don't have to spend too much time on that. I will spend some time though, on the LA Mayor's race. This is from. Ok, so Spencer Pratt, as we know, I never watched the show, so I feel like I missed out a little bit on some of the background here. Los Angeles and New York, we are getting simultaneously in America's two great coastal cities. And by great, I really mean like size and importance. I'm not passing a judgment on them. But the two main cities and the two biggest cities by population in the country, you are getting real time experiments in mismanagement and how badly these places can be mismanaged and what the consequences of that may be at any given time. In New York, you have Mamdani chasing away by being a little class warfare idiot, chasing away people like Ken Griffin, the hedge fund billionaire extraordinaire. And he's going to put more money into Florida now, as he should. By the way. I. I really appreciate that Ken Griffin isn't taking this line. I don't know the guy. He's clearly very, very smart, very successful and rational. And I would say reasonable. And I appreciate that he is taking action on this and not taking this lying down because he's somebody who can really teach a lesson to the communists in New York a little bit. I mean, they'll always want to steal more. They're never going to change their minds. But at least there's. We're having this conversation right now. We're having this discussion about the change in planned expenditure from New York City because of what Mamdani did. Calling out Ken Griffin going out to where his home is and saying we're have a special tax on this fat cat moving his Monday to Miami. That's one version of the city mismanagement experiment. And I'M also going to tell you this. I told this in the beginning. Every person you know in New York. We have a huge audience on WOR. Thank you for listening. And our fantastic lead in Mr. Marc Simone. Mr. New York does a Whenever I'm a little nostalgic, a little homesick for New York, I'll listen to Mark talking about what's going on in New York right before this show. But to anyone who voted for Mamdani, the thing that they overwhelmingly seem to want is lower housing prices. And I guarantee you that won't happen. In fact, the opposite will happen, guaranteed. So they will then have to console themselves with, well, we had nice ideas, nice intentions. And the path to hell, particularly the path, the communist hell, is paved with supposedly good intentions. LA mayor's race. You're seeing some similarities popping up here with somebody who's coming forward and just saying, when I say similarities, there's Ken Griffin. He's the guy speaking truth on this issue. He's obviously not running for mayor. But then you have in LA this former reality show star, which it's kind of funny. Former reality show star. I think that used to be an epithet that the media would use, like former reality show star. Tough to use that one these days, isn't it, to say that somebody can't be politically successful. Pretty sure. The Apprentice was a reality show, wasn't it? So you have Spencer Pratt and not only is he doing amazing ads and I my wife makes fun of me for this, but I actually have a hummingbird feeder here. And I'm so sad with my little hummingbird feeder in Miami because I can't, I don't know where to set it up. And apparently it's very tough to get hummingbirds where I am. I'm kind of, you know, deep in the city here. And there's not anyway, a lot of parrots that escape from people and now just keep breeding in the wilder parrots everywhere, green parrots. But these hummingbirds that Spencer Pratt has, if not domesticated, he certainly tamed them a bit. Have you these videos? I thought it was all AI. It's real. It took him years. And he hand feeds nectar that he makes himself to these hummingbirds. And the hummingbird has become his brand. This guy is a branding genius. He's doing amazing stuff. And you can tell that the system wants to mock him and ridicule him and push him aside. The Democrat left progressive lunatic asylum. You know, there were three stabbings in Venice beach in the last three get three days. I think it was three Stabbings. One of them was in a Whole Foods in Venice Beach. Now if you, if you don't know much about California, a lot of you who live there know this. Obviously it's on the beach, Venice Beach. There's multi, multi million dollar homes. Not just on the beach, near the beach. This is a high rent, high cost area. People getting stabbed in the Whole Foods, that's just one example. But numerous people stabbed in a small community that's incredibly expensive to live in. And what is the answer? What do you have from the authorities? What are they going to do? Can't do more police presence. Oh, that would be bad. I want you to listen to this. This is brilliant. By accident, it's brilliant. This is an attack ad that they are running against Spencer Pratt to tear him down. Listen in to what the Democrat left in Los Angeles thinks is an attack play 9. Republican Spencer Pratt is the last thing Los Angeles needs for mayor. Pratt opposes using taxpayer money to build brand new houses for our unhoused neighbors, saying it's time for the homeless to get help or get out. Pratt thinks LA needs thousands more police officers rather than more social workers. And Republican Spencer Pratt thinks public employee unions should have less power, not more. LA is on the right track and needs to stay the course. Vote no on Republican Spencer Pratt, Louisiana is on the right course. That is, I mean that is delusional. That is worthy of a manufactured delusion. The title of my book, which if you haven't gotten it, you should get a copy of available on Amazon. Manufactured delusion. No, but that really is delusional. It's crazy. Louisiana is. I don't think anyone, I don't even think the Democrats who keep voting for Democrats think LA is on the right track. They just think if you keep doing the same thing over and over, you'll get a different result or you keep supporting the same thing over and over or. This is actually more the Democrat mindset. They don't even stop to think about the result. It's about the feeling they get to take the position they do in front of other people. And when they look in the mirror, that's what matters to them. It's their own positioning as a virtuous person who cares about the less fortunate that matters to them more than people getting stabbed in Whole Foods because they refuse to enforce the law. But in that attack ad you heard, Spencer Pratt thinks. Thinks, ha ha ha. So silly that we should have more cops. Yeah, they absolutely should have more cops. Spencer Pratt thinks the public sector, unions, unions should have less power yeah, they can strangle any politician they want to, essentially politically. They. They are way too powerful. Public sector unions, these are people paid by the state, and they get to determine who runs by state. I mean, you know, the government, local government, in this case of Los Angeles. But it's true at the state level as well. They get to determine how you govern. Guess what? The teachers unions always want more money, always want less work, always want more benefits. What a shock. But if you don't promise to do that and burden the taxpayers of Los Angeles with even more of those demands, they're going to come out, they're going to picket you, they're going to do everything they can. They could use all the money they get from their members, all the dues they collect to just destroy you. Yeah, they should have. First of all, there should be no such thing for, as a public sector union for people who don't risk their lives in their employment. How about that? I'm okay with it for cops and firefighters. I don't want it for public school teachers. All right, this is crazy stuff, crazy stuff. But Spencer Pratt's doing a great, great job. I'll come back and get into some more of that here in just a minute. It's remarkable, though, to show this guy understands narrative, he understands content, he understands how to pull in an audience and make the issues feel real to people, because they are. When we talk about the people of Israel, we're talking about a people connected to a promise. It's a promise made by God, one he's never broken and one that continues even today. 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Welcome back in Tag Team. I am in Washington, D.C. and I am in studio. Buck not feeling great. Appreciate him filling in for me as I was in transit there, a bit delayed. I'm going to be at the White House a little bit later today. Should be a interesting trip over, obviously, given all of the different moving parts associated with the Iran situation and the combination of President Trump leaving on Wednesday for China, which is going to create all sorts of interesting dynamics as we get ready for what that interaction is going to look like. But there are a bunch of different things to dive into here that I sort of flagged as I was in the air en route and I thought that this one and I want to kind of set the table for this because there is a panic setting in among Democrats over the Virginia Supreme Court decision. And this morning the New York Times has a story suggesting that as a result of that Supreme Court decision, there are talks among Democrats associated with, believe it or not, eliminating all seven of the Supreme Court justices in the state of Virginia and replacing them with seven brand new justices that they believe would say, hey, you know what? This map is okay, I know that sounds crazy, but that's the reality of where we are. And that's what Hakeem Jeffries is basically saying out loud, this idea partly coming from him. Cut 38 we do have these structural
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problems that need to be addressed. We've got to, for instance, make sure we pass the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Advancement act so we can end the era of voter suppression in the United States of America once and for all. We have to end Citizens United, dramatically reform our campaign for finance laws to stop the ability of these deep pocketed special interests to intervene. And we are going to have to explore massive judicial reform state by state and at the federal level. And everything should be on the table as far as I'm concerned.
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Okay, everything should be on the table as far as Hakeem Jeffries is concerned. What does that all mean? What should we learn about what's going on in Virginia when we come back? I will set the table for all of you on that. Plus, Battle in Tennessee as Tennessee is the first state to redistrict in the wake of Calais versus Louisiana. And Senator Jim Banks of Indiana is going to join me here in the studio in the second hour of this program in about 30 minutes. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us Monday Edition.
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