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But your opportunity for free Gold with purchase ends on November 28th, so don't wait. Text Buck to the number 989898 for full details. Welcome everybody to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show. Our main man, Clay, still walking around with a halo and enjoying his pasta carbonara. I think only in America do we eat that. But he's over in Italy. He'll be back on either tomorrow or Monday, depending. So it's just me today and we have a lot to talk about. So thank you for hanging out. We also have some fabulous, fantastic, marvelous, pick your word. Guests like Governor Ron DeSantis of the Great state of Florida, my home state. And I just think far and away, I mean, there's some other good Republican governors, don't get me wrong. But I think when it comes to governors right now, Ron is the goat. He is the best. And then Ron Johnson, Senator Johnson of Wisconsin. So it's a double Ron Day, everybody. A double Ron Day. That is a selling point all on its own. We're have a lot of conversation going on there, including about the FBI and what the heck happened here with the crooks thing. So now I think the consensus seems to be on the right that they knew more, but they didn't tell us that. Look, he actually used the they them pronouns. I want to know how this guy Crooks went from allegedly online Trump supporter to extreme hater who then tried to kill the president. Right. How does that happen? Obviously, he's a crazy person, but there was some process, some radicalization pathway he took. And I would think that the FBI would have a very detailed roadmap of that based on online stuff. So we'll talk to Senator Johnson about that. Um, but we've got some other things happening here as well. Kami Mamdani, I think, is. Is this the right guys? He's getting an invite to the White House. He's going to the White House tomorrow. Is that really happening? No. Oh, check that one. Maybe I might have just gotten punked. I've heard rumors that Kami Mamdani is. Well, he's certainly getting a lot of attention. He's certainly getting a lot of attention. See, this is the problem in the AI Era. I'm just looking at some of the news items that I had pulled together here and now I'm recognizing that one of them could have been AI we'll figure this one out. We'll figure this out. But Mamdani is saying that he will not allow ICE to do any sort of cooperation with the nypd. So that's a really bad sign. That's something that I think tells you. Yeah, guys, come on. I'm right. The Buckster is right. President Trump to meet NYC Mayor Mamdani. The team. The team in New York. I could tell everyone what. Yeah. President Trump to host New York City Mayor Elect Zoran Mamdani at the White House on Friday. Always bet on Buck. I don't just come up with this stuff like a crazy person. I know what I'm doing. This isn't my first road. 15 years of this. 15 years of sitting in a room alone, talking into a microphone. So, yeah, I tend to be. I tend to be on, on point. So, yeah, Mamdani is going to be meeting with Trump. I. That is going to be fascinating. Fascinating. The, the outcome of that. We've also got the White House doing a presser today at 1 o'. Clock. We'll have some Caroline Levitt stuff. But I want to jump into something today. You know, we spent a lot of time yesterday on the Epstein release, which now they've got 30 days. So is a little bit of a, of a, of a waiting game now with this to see what actually comes out of this document release. But I have an Epstein files bombshell of sorts to drop here. This is, this is incredible. I'm going to tell you this right now. You know, this is. We, we've been dealing with a lot of very serious stuff on the show. A lot of, lot of things are quite intense and government transparency and conspiracies that go to the heart of the deep state and all that. But all we really needed was represent. This is real. I probably. This is definitely real because I was looking into this one. Representative Jasmine Crockett, who is perhaps going to run for Senate in Texas. All we needed was Jasmine Crockett and her team of sleuths to figure out that in fact Jeffrey Epstein. Well, I want you to hear this is. This was such a big revelation that Jeffrey Epstein had given money to the following individuals. According to Representative Crockett, this was earlier in the week play cut one, folks.
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Who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein as I had my team dig in very quickly. Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush win read, McCain, Palin, Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear. If this is the standard that we gonna make, just know we gonna expose it all and just know that the FEC filings, they are available for everybody to review. This is absolutely ridiculous.
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Oh, my gosh. All. All of them. Lee Zeldin, George Bush, Sarah Palin. They're adding so many names. It was a different Jeffrey Epstein. She. She thought that she just would have her team look up some. Some guy named Jeffrey Epstein and look up donations. And she reported on the floor of Congress, she reported on the. The bombshell revelations that a Jeffrey Epstein who has absolutely nothing to do with the Jeffrey Epstein that we've been talking about, a separate guy with the name Jeffrey Epstein, which I will admit is unfortunate these days, but it's not that guy's fault. Right? I mean, you know, it is what it is. There's another Jeffrey Epstein. And she and her team figured out that there were donations made by some guy with the same name to a bunch of Republicans and reported that as a gotcha. I don't know if I've seen anything dumber in the United States Congress in memory. I don't know. That may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I. It's. It's definitely in the pantheon of stupid things that somebody has done in Congress. That's up there. But you might be thinking, buck, wow, thank you for that. That's. That's a. That's a nice light way to start things out today. And yes, of course it is. Oh, but she kind of doubles down. It gets better. Instead of saying, oh, wow, I did something very stupid and reckless, and everyone in the country is laughing at me. And we are. We are all laughing at her. We're laughing at this. Oh, she suddenly discovered all the money from. From Epstein that's going to all these Republican politicians. Did it ever occur to their other people if you Google the name Epstein, yes, news stories will be Jeffrey Epstein. But there are a lot of people with that name. A lot of people. It's not the only one. Oh, boy. I. I have. I have a friend. Her name is hyphenated. I have a friend with the last. She married a guy named Epstein. I have a friend whose last name is Epstein. Nothing to do with Jeffrey. Sure. There. There is, in fact, a way to have Epstein in your name, and you have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Um, that's funny. Actually, I I. I do. I just realized I forgot that one of my friends. Married. Married. I don't know if he's a doctor or something like that, but he's an Epstein. Jasmine Crockett is just saying, oh, I didn't. What I said is true. I wasn't misleading people. This is after everyone figured out what had gone on here. Plague cut two.
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I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there. And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen, because I knew that they didn't even try to go through the fecal. So my team, what they did is they Googled. And that is specifically why I said a Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at least don't go out and just tell lies because it was not the same one. That's fine. But when Lee Zeldin had something to say, all he had to say was, it was a different Jeffrey Epstein. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I wasn't trying to mislead people. Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says is that it wasn't that Jeffrey Epstein. But I was not attempting to mislead anybody. Literally had maybe 20 minutes before I had to do that debate.
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I just. I knew all along that I was just saying a guy named Jeffrey Epstein. I just wanted to point out that there was some other guy. What is she doing? Oh, my gosh. This is one of my favorite things. This is one of my favorite things. I cannot believe this. Instead of just. Instead of just doing what any person in this circumstance would do, which is like, guys, I'm so sorry. My staff is prepostero mistake I'll never happen again. And Dr. Epstein, wherever you are, I, you know, apologize for in some way maybe bringing. Bringing you into this. You have nothing. You've done nothing wrong. You have nothing to do with the other Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, my gosh. But no, she's like, no, I just said, Jeffrey Epstein. There's another guy. There's another guy out there, you know, so. Oh, man, I just kind of needed that after. After the week, the weeks that we've been having lately, very serious news stuff. And I. I mean this. I truly hope that Jasmine Crockett runs for Senate. Now. I'm. Now I'm dedicated to it. And before I thought it would be entertaining. Before there was a part of me that figured in, in our business here of doing talk radio and commentary. Jasmine Crockett will be a gift, that is for sure. But now, I don't know. I don't know if I could handle not having a run for Senate. I'll be so disappointed. It would be such a, a massive loss to those of us who do this for a living. So, you know, I don't donate to candidates, but there's a part of me that's like, wouldn't, wouldn't it be fun to just, just make sure, just to help that, help Jasmine Crockett get into this race for Senate. But yeah, it turns out different. Jeffrey Epstein, one of my favorite missteps that I've seen in Congress in a really long time. And the fact that she's so unrepentant about it is pretty remarkable. But I actually believe that as a Democrat, this is an asset. I think you're much better off if you're going to be a Democrat politician these days. And this now gets us into also the way they've tried to focus the actual Epstein stuff on Trump and the hypocrisy. Lack of standards are really only double standards. You have to embrace those things and you have to be shameless. You have to be shameless to be a prominent Democrat. How else can you explain to people the Schumer shutdown as anything other than Democrats throwing a tantrum and trying to do a little bit of voter turnout before the election and making the country suffer as a result? How else can you explain the wide open border and the devastation that that has caused in so many communities across the country? You, you have to just be willing to say anything and take any position that the party that the elites of the Democrat establishment tell you. And I just, honestly, it was, it was amazing. So I hope that you enjoy that as much as I did. Do you know that there's another Jeffrey Epstein writing checks to politicians? Yeah, I bet. I bet if you did a Google search is probably more than two Jeffrey Epstein's. It turns out probably it isn't. It is in fact possible. So anyway, we'll talk more about this Momdani meeting which is happening at the White House. Everyone. I could, I could hear you guys in New York, producer Ali, you were all making me think that I was crazy for a second. Like the way that, the way that the, the gasp went up. I think they were just horrified that Mandani's gonna be getting even more attention because they're in New York. I'm, I'm outside the blast radius here in South Florida. They're actually right in, in the mix. Our New York City team, you know, we cover a lot of ground geographically. We have our New York City team, which is really the hub. And it's, it's, it's Rush's New York team that has stayed there and stayed on. And then there's me down here in South Florida, Miami, Miami beach, more specifically in Clay and Nashville. 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Well, here it is in the New York Times. Trump and Mamdani will make meet at White House on Friday. The meeting between Zoran Mamdani, the mayor elect of New York City, and President Trump will come after the two men have fiercely attacked each other. Let's see, we have here Mamdani had asked for it and label him sorry, Trump said Mandani asked for it and labeled him incorrectly as the Communist mayor of New York City. First of all, the fact that Trump calls him that publicly is hilarious and true. And secondly, the fact the New York times corrects it. Mr. Mumdani is a democratic socialist. You know, the communists thought they were democratic socialists too, just putting that out there. They had all sorts of games that they play, but ultimately it's really more of a it's really more about the ethos, the underlying philosophical foundation of what you think the role between citizen and state must be. But that's another conversation here. That's why the Communists versus Socialist versus yeah, we understand that Mamdani thinks that if he has more power and more central planning ability and he gets to determine what's fair, then everything will be better for everybody. And that is unfortunately, throughout history, a disaster recipe. It is an absolute nightmare. If that is taken to its logical ends, or rather, where has it gone historically? So Hamdani has fiercely criticized the president's immigration policies and threats to cut federal funding. The city remember Eric Adams, who was the mayor of of New York beforehand and I'm sorry, is still the mayor of New York, but the mayor of, you know, preceding Mamdani's reign of terror, Eric Adams said, look, this thing of the illegals coming into New York is a dis. Is a mess for us here in the city. It's blowing a hole in our budget. It is overcrowding, a lot of resources that are meant for actual New Yorkers, actual Americans, and it's causing big problems. This was important in the 2024 election cycle. And yes, the Biden DOJ decided to go after Eric Adams because of this. That is really how the game is played. I wish it was not the case. I wish I could tell you that our prosecutorial arm of the DOJ and all that operates based on justice, not on just a lie. It's just not true anymore. Not when Democrats are in charge. Not when there are Obama, Biden judges making these decisions or Democrats deciding who has charges brought against them. It's a big, a big problem that we face in the country. But I'll give you some of what we're seeing here because this is going to be quite a showdown between Trump and Mamdani. Trump understands the moment. He understands how to handle this, too. I'm going to tell you something right now. You know what Trump's going to say. He's a, you know, he's a, he's a nice young man. He's got some, he's got some good ideas. He's doing things, you know, he's going to say some nice things and he's going to go, but he's a communist and he's going to destroy New York City. So, so he'd be very Trump about this, right? He'll be charming, but then he's gonna, he's gonna lay the, lay the smackdown on some of the madness of Mamdaniism. So we'll get to all this. You know, it's getting close to Black Friday when Birch Gold Group announces what's become an annual tradition for them each November as Black Friday approaches, Birch Gold gives away free gold with every qualifying purchase. And here are the details. When you convert an existing IRA or 401k into a tax sheltered IRA in gold, Birch Gold will send you 4 free gold to your home for every $20,000 purchased. The value of gold has gone up some 53% this year. What was once $2,300 an ounce is now over $4,000 for the same ounce of gold. And there's a lot of reasons for this global uncertainty, money printing, the Fed, all that stuff. And that's going to continue and you know it. So a portion of your savings in gold makes sense. Gold thrives given all this uncertainty. If you're looking to diversify your savings, Birch Gold can help. Now through November 28th, get free free Gold with a qualifying purchase. Text My name Buck to 9898 98. Text Buck for your opportunity for free gold to 989898 for details. Welcome back in everybody to Clay and Buck. We're talking about the mom, Donnie Kami Mamdani. He is going to be in the White House tomorrow. So he's got that going for him, which is nice. But we are looking at what this is going to be like. VIP email from Pamela. Thanks, Buck, for reminding me to laugh sometimes at the Democrat antics rather than just feel anger or fear. It's much healthier to recognize it for what it is. Keep the face, keep the faith, preserve my sanity. You guys are the best. Well, yes, yes indeed. Thank you. We try, we try to be happy warriors here. You know, we're in the fight. But look, it's. The day to day is stressful and hard enough. We want you to come here, get a lot of great information, get insights, you know, have people like Governor DeSantis and Senator Ron Johnson fill you in on what's happening from the very top levels of government, respectively in their different spheres. But also have fun. You know, we want you to have fun obviously every day because it's more fun for us too. So I really, I really appreciate that. I just had to open up with the Jasmine Crock thing today. Do you realize that a man named Jeffrey Epstein. You know, I, I grew up in Manhattan and I think there were, there were several Jeffrey Epstein's in my general vicinity. I didn't even, I didn't even think about it until now. Oh my gosh, it's amazing. It is amazing. Also, VIP email from William writes. Hey, Bach. To continue the fun, we should go to Jasmine's website and donate to her campaign using the name Jeffrey Epstein. Well, don't, don't donate in someone else's name. But I get the joke. And yeah, it's. Yeah. Oh man. Funny, Funny stuff. Funny stuff. All right, now we got this Mom Donnie meeting tomorrow. What, what's really at issue here. And I think that there's going to be an effort to. Well, first of all, there's going to be an effort to make Mamdaniism and Clay and I have talked about this a lot. An issue for the midterms. I don't know how much, how well that will work. I think the cost of things is a huge decider of where this midterm is going to go. Whether, you know, who, who, who makes the case that they're better at handling costs. I was just actually reading a couple of days ago. Peace. I can't remember. Wall Street Journal, New York Times. I read all these different newspapers constantly, so I can't keep straight sometimes where I read it. But as you know, one of the big Mom Donnie plans is a rent Freeze. I'm gonna freeze the rent. And this is one of these ideas that. I get it, it sounds good, like, oh, the rent's gonna be frozen. A lot of people now it doesn't sound good. If you're a landlord, we'll get to that. But, oh, you know, the rent's gonna be frozen because, yeah, New York rent is very high. Why is New York rent very high? This is true in a lot of cases. Okay, A lot of places. New York is a test case for this. But it's same thing's true for house building in Los Angeles County. Is that the county, Louisiana, It's LA county, right? Yeah, Los Angeles County. Same thing's true in a lot of very left wing districts in this and counties in this country. What, what makes the cost so high are things like labor cost, regulatory cost, and then market conditions as well. Do a lot of people want to live where you want to live? There's also a supply and demand aspect of it, but there are artificial constraints on the supply and demand as a result of government intervention. Right. This is where Hayek, it's a little dry, but Hayek's road to serfdom is so good because Hayek makes the case that, and it's very important to remember, government intervention in markets begets more government intervention in markets. The more the government tries to play God, so to speak, in where you can live and what you pay and what you can buy and all this, then there's this tendency for them to say, oh, we've created a distortion in the market. Let's, let's fix it with more government regulation. And you all see this in your, in your day to day life, you know, whenever the government has done something, you're like, well, that's a dumb idea. What happens later when everyone realizes it's a dumb idea? Does the government say, let's stop doing the dumb thing? No, they generally want to do another dumb thing to fix the dumb thing that they should not have done in the first place. And with that I bring you rent control or a rent freeze, both of them applicable here in New York City. Oh, let's just freeze the rent. Well, does that freeze the cost? Does that freeze taxes on the people who own these buildings? You know, this is where you start to see the destructive hand of government and markets. And Mamdani fundamentally does not. This is where he's a commie. Well, we'll just, you know, we'll give more to people and then they'll have more stuff and everybody, everybody will be happy. But no. What about the hand that takes, what about the government hand that says, well, that's mine now and I'm going to give it to somebody else? That redistributive mechanism. You think about housing stock in New York city, there are 50,000, 50,000 housing units, mostly apartments, some multifamily and homes and stuff. But 50,000 places where a person or a family could live that are off the market, off the market entirely and in disrepair, unlivable. They've got, you know, they had a, some kind of a flood or they have an asbestos problem or they have whatever it is. And you know why they're off the market and not going to be on the market? Because New York City passed laws that make it impossible for them for the landlords to recoup the cost of what it would be to make the place livable. So, so you want to talk about artificial housing constraints, These are already, these are domiciles that would be ready to go. You got to put some money into them. But the landlords realize if I can only if I have to spend. Let's just make this kind of simple. A one bedroom, a one bedroom apartment. And, and I, if I spend 50,000, I'm a landlord in New York, right? There we go. I spend $50,000 to bring that apartment up to code, make it nice, make it, you know, clean, safe. Somebody's going to want to live there. But I can only raise the rent from what it used to be. $50 a month, $100 a month. I'm never going to recoup my investment. I would need to raise the rent, you know, $1,000 a month or $1,500 a month or whatever it may be, and they won't allow it. And so as a result, you have all these young people, like, I can't afford to live in New York. Well, that's because the idiot politicians who run New York City, which is only possible also the New York bureaucracy is only possible because of the 1% of high earners in New York who fund all of the madness. Also true In California, if 1% of New Yorkers left, I mean, that full 1% of top earners, if all of them left the whole, the, the whole city budget, I mean, you'd lose half of the revenue be gone. So because New York has such a concentration of extremely high earners, they're able to get away with a lot of really bad policy. It's a bit like a national government that has a tremendous amount of oil. They can get away with a lot of really bad policy because oil's gonna pay a lot of the bills. And that's, that's like having an ATM machine that's just spewing out money when you have. I think New York has more obviously more billionaires than anywhere else in the country and more extreme high earners. Although the Bay Area, maybe the Bay Area, actually now I'd have to look at the numbers because of all the tech stuff. There's tremendous high earners there too. But if you had a flight of just even half of that 1%, the whole city even 25% of that 1%, 10% of that 1%, the city budget just can't, can't work, can't function. You start to think about how you get a state and then a federal bailout or something. So my problem with Mamdani, my Mamdani ism, is he has no response to what I said other, other than to grin and tell people, we're going to make it better for you. What I just explained is the reality that there are artificial constraints on housing that make the existing housing more expensive. And instead of dealing with those constraints and letting the market. A lot of people want to live in New York. They could build a lot more housing in New York. But instead of dealing with that properly, he's going to punish the people that you actually need to incentivize. Landlords, builders, developers. He's going to punish them more and make the problem worse, make scarcity a bigger issue. This is exactly what's going to go on. And then there's the immigration and enforcement side of. Oh, wait, sorry. Here, here we go. Mamdani on day one plan. This is why I was thinking about this. I got so fired up, I didn't even. The first order of business is to freeze the rent. Play 13. Yeah, I think that the first order of business will frankly be the rent guidelines board and freezing the rent for more than 2 million rent stabilized tenants. That is something that happens on an annual basis here in New York City. The other two, as you referred to, is making buses fast and free and delivering universal childcare. And just this past week I had a great meeting with the governor where we spoke about our shared focus on affordability agenda and on universal child. Child care particularly. And this is something that will take a period of time. These are all promises that I intend to keep over the time that I am mayor. And I also know that what they have the potential to do is transform New Yorkers ability to live in the city. This is true. And I know this is going to sound flippant. You know where they had universal childcare as a matter of policy? The Soviet Union. They did you think it was any good? No. No. You do not want your kids to be in that. But they did have it so they could have mom and dad in the factories. The factories that didn't produce very much. The factories where they pretended to work and the owners pretended to. Or the government pretended to pay them because they were the owners. It's. It's astonishing that this is where we are. A rent freeze in New York. This guy got elected. This is the problem with Democrats, everybody. And I know for a lot of you're like, buck, I live in Texas. Why do I care? Because this is Democrats at the national level, too. This is how they think about everything. They approach it like a child would approach the problem, instead of looking at what caused it and brought it to this point. It's like, well, what. What Band Aid can I put on it to make it better now? What lipstick can I put on the. On the. The pig, so to speak, to make it prettier? They don't. They don't actually look at root causes. They pretend to care about root causes. They don't care about root causes. They pretend to care about what got us here. The worst thing you can do for housing affordability in New York City overall is more stupid policy that makes it impossible for there to be more units on the market, more units being built. That's the worst thing you can do, and that's what he's doing. So this guy got elected largely on an issue where not only will he fail to make it better, he is inevitably going to make it worse. And this is the part that will really drive a lot of us crazy and certainly a lot of New Yorkers crazy. And he will take no responsibility for it. When he fails, it'll be somebody else. It'll be the rich, the fat cats, the millionaires and the billionaires. It'll be some class warfare nonsense. Or it's Donald Trump's. It'll actually probably be Donald Trump's fault, which is one of the reasons why I think Trump and Mamdani meeting tomorrow is so interesting, because Mamdani has Trump built up as the boogeyman who will be the excuse for whatever failures Mamdani has in New York City, whatever real market or real economic failures there are. He'll say, well, it's Trump's fault. Does he have to explain that? No, it's just gonna be something that he says that makes him feel good. So we'll see. I'll take your calls on this. And also I want to talk about this video that was made, this video that was put out like a commercial about not obeying illegal orders from a bunch of Democrat politicians, including a Senator Slotkin, who I know she wants to be president, by the way. Not going to happen. But talk about that coming up here in a little bit when tragedy strikes. The Tulsa Towers foundation honors America's heroes and their families. Heroes like United States Specialist Andy Kingsley. Andy served our nation with honor as part of the 82nd Airborne Division. Throughout his distinguished career, he received various awards and decorations, including a Purple Heart. But while Andy was deployed, he was severely injured. The incident resulted in the loss of his right leg, partial vision loss, vision loss, a traumatic brain injury, and more. He spent over a year at Walter Reed National Medical center learning how to navigate life with his injuries. 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Drinking my Crockett coffee because I love it. CrockettCoffee.com, go check it out. You'll love it, too. It is delicious. It is fantastic. And all of that good stuff. So check it out. We'll take some calls. Coming up here. Also, talk about this video that was put out by Alyssa Slotkin and others. You don't have to obey illegal orders. Military. What are you, like, trying to get a mutiny going here? What is this subversion, by the way? This is. I want to play this. This is Mumdani on how to fund some of his policies. This is cut. This is cut 14. And he thinks he's going to be able to get free busing, but he can't. But he thinks he'll get it anyway. Play 14. Talking about fast and free buses. In your meeting with the governor, I've heard you talk about many times that you don't want to take money away from the mta. You want to put money back in. It's something that she agrees with, right? We don't want to take away money from the MTA. How are you getting that money, the 700 million to make the buses free, into the MCA if she's not for raising taxes? You know, I think that the two clearest ways to raise that money is through the raising of the state's corporate tax to match New Jersey. I think that a lot of this is still a case to be made, whether it's the corporate tax or that's the personal income tax on those who make more than $1 million a year or more. I think that these are the clearest ways. I've also said that if there are other ways to raise this funding, the most important fact is that we fund it. Not the question of how we do.
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It'll come from somewhere. He's saying, so what if the governor is saying, no, you can't just do that. It's complicated. New York City, the Metro Transit Authority, you know, New York City, New York, New York State government. I lived there for like 30 something years, and I still don't even understand where, you know, where the Port Authority and the Metro Transit Authority and all this stuff, the funding and everything else, it's. It's a bit of a mess. But the point is, Mamdani was told you can't just fund this with whatever it was you were planning. The governor's office has already said, no, we don't want to do that. And in free. Free. The problem we already have is people not paying on the bus and not paying on the subway. That's actually the problem. He thinks it's going to get better if you make it free. Oh, gosh, he's going to turn the bus. This is like when Starbucks changed their policy to, you don't have to buy anything. Just come hang out. Then you get, like, homeless people camping out, like vagrants doing, you know, fentanyl in the bathroom. And then people who want to buy a coffee don't want to be there anymore. The bus is going to turn into a mobile homeless shelter if they. If they manage to get there and everyone knows it. If they manage to get this policy through. And this is why this guy's a commie. He doesn't care what rational thought is and what reality is about these things. It's just emotion. We'll figure it out. We'll pay for it. We'll deal with it. He certainly doesn't want to help out on the immigration side of things, but, man, it's going to be an interesting, interesting sit down tomorrow with Trump and commie Mamdani. Looking forward to diving into that and also looking forward to taking your calls here. Coming up, 800-282-2882. Let's light up those phone lines. Oh, we've got governor Ron Desantis of Florida will be with us soon, and Senator Ron Johnson. So those will be fascinating conversations, I can assure you. And I think that we're going to be diving into all that. I don't know. I don't think Clay's going to call in today, but in case you missed it, yesterday he got to meet with the pope. Very cool. See, I go meet with the president of Taiwan. He meets with the Pope. We are international men of mystery on this show. It is just how we roll.
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