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Clay Travis
President Trump with a few news items. Sorry. Well, he said that the the right is a lot tougher than the left. That's true for sure. We'll give you some of the top sound bites and some of the most important things from all of this here coming up shortly. We've also got some news on the economy. James Comey in the headlines once again because of the possibility of charges against Comey before that five year clock runs out on the statute of limitations. We've got more updates also on the ICE facility, that fatal shooting that happened yesterday. We'll discuss that. Hillary Clinton is weighing in on things, a whole range of things right now, which we will share with you so we can pull apart her preposterous arguments. And we've also got Washington Post yesterday reporting that marked classified material was found in the home of former Trump national security adviser. Bolton is also formerly a FOX News contributor. So a lot of you have seen him on Fox. He's the guy with the mustache you'd seen over many years. That's not good. If that is accurate, he's in if that reporting, I should say is accurate, that's going to be a very tough one to explain to anyone. And he's not a former president. There's no basis for him to have declassified anything. So we can talk a little bit more about that. But I just want to note, I love when we can take a moment for just some positive news. And here is CNBC's Rick Santelli saying the look, second quarter GDP even a little better than anticipated. Play Clip 1. Now on the GDP side, this is our third time around the block on Q2 and we see a really solid revision, 3.8%. I'm a bit shocked to be honest. Usually the revisions as you get to second and third become smaller and smaller. So 3.8% would be the best quarter going back to and we have to go back a ways here till 4.4. And that was 3Q23. Now, it is important to point out that if you look at the first quarter final down half a percent There's a balance there, but the balance is moving in favor and momentum is moving in favor of for better growth. Clay looking pretty good still on the economy and Trump not getting much credit for it from the media for obvious reasons. But if somebody had told me at the start of his presidency, this is where the numbers would be and this is how the markets and also how rates and inflation and everything would look at this point, it's pretty darn good. I think the President should be happy certainly with the progress so far we've seen in year one, no doubt.
Buck Sexton
And we've got record basically high stock prices. You've got overall inflation continuing to come down. The much maligned impact of tariffs seem to be non existent. All of the experts are now buck, as you watch, coming out and saying, hey, well, we haven't seen the pricing impact that we thought from the tariff situation. The overall interest rates are coming down. Jerome Powell is behind on being able to do that, but we just got the quarter point decline. There's a forecast of a couple of more declines on interest rates and then going into next year. So I would suspect that you're going to see 15 and 30 year mortgages continue to come down, which is going to help to free up. You were talking, I think we were talking about this off air, the degree to which the housing market has been just frozen to a large extent. Because look, if you were fortunate enough to get one of those 2 and a half or 3% mortgages, you don't want to move. And if you were unfortunate enough to buy and have a 7% mortgage, I'm telling you, you're going to start to see a lot of movement as those mortgage rates get down to 4 and a half, 5% and there starts to be less of a major difference in potentially moving, selling homes. I think when the housing market just kind of gets unlocked and it starts to move freely as a more, is a more liquid asset class, I think you're gonna see a lot of rapid growth. But 3.8% growth is amazing. Look, there's two ways to balance the budget. One is to essentially cut spending in a massive way. That's what Doge was trying to do. There is, I'm just gonna tell you, there is no political will to massively cut spending. Democrats aren't gonna do it, Republicans aren't gonna do it. And this is where I think Elon Musk is correct. So how do you get about balancing the budget? You have to grow the economy and you have to grow the revenue that the growing economy is going to produce. And I think that's where Elon now is saying, hey, AI is going to potentially be so transformative in what it provides to the overall economy that we're just going to have to grow our way to get past the ballooning national deficits. Because people like things and when you give them things they do not want.
Clay Travis
Santa Claus is very tough to compete with getting free goodies that you don't have to pay for over and over again. And you know, people get very. It's funny too, because everyone wants to cut. It's like everyone's a hero when it comes to the budget until you actually talk about what has to be cut from the budget. And then we have some, we have some big problem. All right, so this is what I wanted to play before. I just wanted to know. This was just said by President Trump now just to set this up, Clay. So we've had, we've had the Charlie Kirk assassination, which we are all still dealing with. The trauma and the heartbreak of that, honestly. Also the processing of how many lunatics are out there who were celebrating such a horrific event is. That's also in a way, its own trauma, I think, as an American and much lesser than seeing what happened with Charlie. But for a lot of people, it's made, it's brought it home to them as well that there could be anybody they know in their life or so that, that, that would celebrate such a horrific thing. There's. That there's. Now the. We'll have more details on this to share with everybody. More reporting on it. But the guy who killed, he killed two migrants at the ICE facility. So this guy is anti ice, but he killed two migrants being processed in an ICE facility because he just opened fire. So this, I mean, it's horrible no matter what. But also you just add, this person is such a, such a gross and evil individual that he killed, he's upset about what's happening to migrants. So he killed two of them.
Buck Sexton
It's clearly FBI has released a couple of more data points on that guy. We try to avoid naming these guys. So I'm not going to do that. But he downloaded the list of DHS facilities. This is according to Libs of TikTok. Repeated searches on the Charlie Kirk shooting, tracked ICE agent movements through apps and had a handwritten note saying, quote, hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror. So anyone out there who is trying to argue that this is anything other than yet another left wing shooter motivated by left wing political arguments is being dishonest to you. And, and again, that is the absolute latest in terms of the FBI investigation that they have reported.
Clay Travis
So this is cut 27. Trump spoke about. I'm sorry, cut 26, 2018, 28. Trump spoke about this left wing violence. Play it.
Buck Sexton
What do you hold responsible for the uptick in left wing violence?
James Comey
Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem. They're out of control. They're saying things and they're really dumb people. I mean, I look at Crockett, I look at some of these people. They're. They're very low IQ people, actually. But the radical left is causing this problem. Not the right, the radical left. And it's going to get worse. And ultimately it's going to go back on them. I mean, bad things happen when they play these games. And I'll give you a little clue. The right is a lot tougher than the left. But the right's not doing this. They're not doing it. And they better not get them energized because it won't be good for the left. And I don't want to see that happen either. I'm the president of all the people. But the radical left is causing this. Radical left. Democrats are causing this problem. And it's. It gets worse. It gets worse and it'll be a point where other people won't take it anymore. And that will not be good for the radical left. And we don't want that.
Clay Travis
Clay, I just appreciate that the president is saying it in the most plain spoken, straightforward, no nonsense way possible. He's like, the left is the problem, guys. The left are the ones doing the violence. I just also wish that we all could say, or we could just be reminded that Davy Crockett, fantastic American icon. Crockett. Coffee, a delicious coffee. When he's saying Crockett, he's referring to Congresswoman Crockett, who is causing some brand. Some brand problems sometimes. But yes, the left is the problem. The left is where the violence is.
Buck Sexton
Another left wing violent incident that has been getting some attention this morning. Buck, that ties into what the President was just saying. This is a Fox News alert. A man's been arrested, charged after allegedly making social media threats against a Charlie Kirk vigil at the University of Texas, San Antonio. This man allegedly suggested on social media he planned to use his truck to drive through and disrupt the Charlie Kirk vigil. I mean, this is everywhere and it's happening in every state. And again, the gunman who opened fire yesterday at the Dallas ICE facility has left written record that he wanted to provide Real terror for ICE agents. And that he. Again, I mean, this is just not.
Clay Travis
We didn't even mention this either because there's so much of this stuff. A guy shot up an ABC News we haven't talked about.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. In Sacramento.
Clay Travis
He was upset about Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air, so he shot up an ABC News affiliate. Jimmy Kimmel's back on the air, I might add. And you're like, these people are such maniacs that they're going to shoot at innocent people because some guy was. Some millionaire jerk, was taken off the Air Force, couple of days, like he got a free vacation out of it. How much more of this. You stack these things up. How much more of this has to happen? That's all clearly politically aligned with Democrats, with the left, with the commies before. There's just no. There's no argument. There's no debate anymore. You know, I saw Megyn Kelly. Clay was at. Was that. What was it? Virginia Tech? I think it was speaking, you know, as part of Turning Point now, reaching out and having people go to campuses to continue Charlie's work. And some kid did the whole. The violence comes from the right. The violence comes from the right. People are delusional. They're being fed lies by the Democrat media and by the Democrat, you know, think tanks and everything else in the Democrat Party. And what they're being told is just absurd. I mean, how can you make this. How can you make this claim with a straight face? Where is this right wing violence? Or we're gonna have to hear about J6 again, is that. That's the big terrible thing, that's the worst than 9 11. Remember they used to say that. They say J6 is worse than 9 11. Yeah.
Buck Sexton
Worse than 9 11, worse than Pearl Harbor. The worst thing that's happened in the country since the Civil War, that's legitimately what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris argued about January 6th. I mean, that was their direct talking point. Worst thing that's happened in the country since the Civil War.
Clay Travis
I'm worried, Clay, that people are going to recognize more and more that even if Democrats wanted to put this genie back in the bottle, so to speak, even if they wanted to close up Pandora's box with all the lies they have told about the fascist Republicans who are destroying democracy and all this stuff, I don't even think that they could do this. I don't think they could turn it off now, is my point. I think they have unleashed this long enough on the American people that we are going to have to continue to suffer through what are just waves of domestic terrorism, plain and simple. By people who think because the New York Times and CNN and Joe Biden and Kamala told them, they think they're fighting fascism. And by fascism they mean Nazis. Like, no one's really going around like Trump is. Just like Mussolini, it's Nazis. And the reason they want to compare us to Nazis is so they feel justified in being violent against us. It's very straightforward. It's insane, but it's straightforward.
Buck Sexton
The reason they say that is so they have an excuse to kill us. Yeah. That's the simple truth. And the fact that they've done it for 10 years, by the way. I don't believe that any of the Democrat leadership actually believes that argument. Right. Because if they did, when Donald Trump got hit in the ear and when another guy tried to kill him, they wouldn't have said, well, we condemn that violence. Right. If you truly thought Trump was Hitler, you should be honest and say, well, I wish they hadn't missed. They never say that because they know it would play so poorly in the larger public. But with their deranged lunatic base, I don't know what percentage of them, but enough of them to kill Charlie Kirk and enough of them to kill at the Dallas ice facility and enough of them to go to Brett Kavanaugh's house and enough of them to show up at the softball baseball team practice and start firing away. There is a deranged lunatic fringe of the left that is acting on what they believe. That is true coming from the Democrat base their arguments and buck. They think they're heroes. You have to go into these misguided souls brains and think about the way that they are motivating themselves. They're making it clear why they're doing what they're doing. They're riding it on the bullets. They think they are heroes for the actions that they are undertaking.
Clay Travis
Well, look at man Luigi, whatever his name is.
Buck Sexton
Yes.
Clay Travis
And, and, and how he. There are leftists who think he is a hero there. He's got fan. He has fans, everybody. This guy murdered an American father, husband. It's a guy. He's doing his job. You can say you don't like healthcare companies all you want. You shouldn't murder somebody because they work at a healthcare company or they run a healthcare company. A lot of leftists think that that was great and they say it online. They're insane. You don't see this on the right. It's not too. So Trump is correct. Hammer this point. It is not a both sides thing. The problem is on the left, the problem is with the Democrats and we have to face up to that as a country. All right, look, Pure Talk is fantastic because they support this program and have as a sponsor from day one and they encourage us to speak our truth, to speak openly and honestly in expressing opinions. And we thank them for sponsoring a forum like this one that welcomes viewpoints of the listeners here and a honest and fair exchange of ideas. Pure Talks all about free speech and they also happen to be our cell phone service provider and they should be yours too because they allow programs like this one to exist with their support and also they've got the best customer service and the best prices out there. So if you want to support brands that defend freedom and pro American values, we encourage you to switch your wireless service to Pure Talk. You're going to get great 5G coverage on extremely reliable and secure network and with plans Starting from just 25 bucks a month, you'll save a ton of money. Pure Talk also believes in creating American jobs and supporting small business. So if you're a small business owner, you can save even more while enjoying white glove service. Stand with companies like Pure Talk who stand with you and your values. Dial pound250, say Clay and Buck to make the switch to Pure Talk Right now you'll save an additional 50% off your first month. Dial pound two five zero, say clay and Buck to switch to Pure Talk today.
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Clay Travis
It seems like an indictment of James Comey is intimate. Would this be the first step in accountability for pushing the hopes of Russia, Russia, Russia along with Barack Obama involved as well?
James Comey
Well, I can't tell you what's going to happen because I don't know. You have very professional people headed up by the attorney general and Todd, Todd Blanche and Lindsey Allegan who's very smart, good lawyer, very good lawyer. They're going to make a determination. I'm not making that deter. I think I'd be allowed to get involved if I want but I don't really choose to do so. I can only say that Comey is a bad person. He's a sick person. I think he's a sick guy actually. He did terrible things at the f and but I don't know. I have no idea what's going to happen. Thank you very much.
Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Look at this White House now. And it's hard to imagine two FBI.
Clay Travis
Agents ending up in the sit room.
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How did that happen?
Nicole Wallace
I sent them something we, I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized administration in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration. The protocol. Two men that all of us have perhaps increased appreciation for over the last two years. And in both of those administrations there was process. And so if the FBI wanted to send agents to, into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House council and there'd be discussions and approvals and who would be there. And I thought it's early enough, let's just send a couple guys over.
Clay Travis
Play.
Nicole Wallace
And so we placed a call to Flynn, said, hey, we're sending a couple guys over. Hope you'll talk to them. He said, sure. Nobody else was there. They interviewed him in a conference Room at the White House situation room. And he lied to them and that's what he's now pled guilty to.
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What did he think they were coming over there for?
Nicole Wallace
I don't think he knew. I know we didn't tell him. Just so we got a cup. Sending over a couple of agents. I want to ask you some questions. I didn't have this conversation. My deputy director did. But hope, hope you got a few minutes, you can sit down and talk to them. And he said, sure.
Clay Travis
I just want to say this, Clay, before we get into some of the specifics. If Comey broke the law, he should face the full consequences of a law. He's a scumbag and I hope he spends years in prison if he broke the law. And there are people who seem to think that he did. Did you hear, I mean, when you listen to what this guy did to General Flynn. They used the Logan act as a pretext to send FBI agents to the incoming National Security Advisor's office to just have a conversation. He thought they were probably just, you know, welcoming, welcoming him to the new administration. And then they claim, with no proof other than their word against his, that he lied about non illegal activity that he was completely justified in doing. And they only did this because they unmasked phone calls, abusing FISA in the process.
Buck Sexton
This is also where the statute of limitations play in. And I know we've talked about this statute of limitations issue on a lot of these cases and I know people roll their eyes and they try to say, well, it's an ongoing conspiracy and all these things, the Comey charges, based on my reading, statute of limitations related buck, must happen almost immediately. In other words, they're going to be able to argue, hey, that statute of limitations has told. We are no longer able to be charged under these auspices. And, and given that we know many federal district court judges, the people who were likely be assigned these cases are not going to be favorably disposed to the Trump administration. You gotta have everything lined up when you bring these charges and you've gotta get it done. Well, and we haven't even talked about this, but, but I think we probably should have. There are tons. I think it's like seven or eight different individuals that the D.C. grand jury has refused to indict for blatant crimes during the Trump crime surge to try to bring down Crime in D.C. the grand jury has just said, for instance, the guy who threw the sandwich at the cop, it's on video, it's blatant. He did it. They just said yeah, we're not indicting for this. So the politics of D.C. when it comes to getting people indicted, even when you have evidence on video of crimes being committed, some of the grand jury members are just like, nah, I kind of agree with what they did. I'm not going to agree to charges here being even.
Clay Travis
Absolutely, it's very political. But I wanted everyone to hear what a sanctimonious scumbag Comey is. I used to call him Sancta Comey Clay back in the day. He's a bad dude. He's always been a bad dude. He's slithered from one administration to another within the bureaucracy and somehow always ended up, you know, elevating himself. And he's the guy who, over the objections of fellow prosecutors, wanted Martha Stewart to go to prison just because he wanted to make a name for himself. Martha Stewart worth reminding everybody, serve time in prison. Ok, the lady who's like, you know, here's how to make the most delicious summer salad. And you know, you all know Martha Stewart went to prison because she got jammed up with an investigation of her talking to her broker. And they say that she lied about the conversation with the broker. It wasn't even illegal. It wasn't insider trading.
Buck Sexton
Didn't she only make like 200k? I mean, I'm not trying to, to minimize.
Clay Travis
I think it was like Clay. I think it was like 30 or 40k the trade. I think it was a small trade. It was small.
Buck Sexton
It was.
Clay Travis
She's a billionaire and a billionaire back when there were far fewer of them. She's a billionaire, there's like 30 or 40 grand. And Comey, Comey was on a quest send her. And everybody was like, this guy's kind of a weirdo. Like this has come out. Rudy Giuliani told me this personally at the time. He was like, yeah. When Comey was going after Martha Stewart, we were all like, what is this guy doing? But I wanted to point out what he did to General Flynn. This a guy who served in the military for A years few 30 years, was DIA director and was going to be the national security adviser. And Comey just wanted to take him out. Comey set a. The FBI director set a perjury trap for the incoming national security adviser based on a non crime. Let me tell you, if someone starts interrogating you and you don't think you're.
Buck Sexton
Being interrogated and you can't get a lawyer, get a lawyer, get a lawyer. That's. Yeah, of course. That was so. That was so diabolical. Was that they didn't even. He even really realize what was going on.
Clay Travis
I mean, this would be like. Imagine two FBI guys were talking about a case, and one of them's like, you know what? I think you lied to me. I'm going to bring charges against you now. It's like, wait, we're on the same team. What are you talking about? That was. That was what this was like. This was. Were the executive branch FBI employees coming to talk to national security adviser in the White House for the explicit purpose, the clear purpose of taking. And Comey thought it was funny. Comey thought it was. I mean, look, you hear he's. Oh, they're all laughing. It's so great. They took out General Flynn. Took out General Flynn for what? Speaking to his counterpart, the. Or in a sense, the ambassador to Russia, saying, look, we're coming in. You know, let's talk this out. We come in, he didn't do anything illegal. The Logan Act, Clay, the Logan act has been not successfully prosecuted to. To completion once in 200 years.
Buck Sexton
Yeah.
Clay Travis
And that's what he pulls out. And that's because a Logan act could apply to basically anything.
Buck Sexton
I'm going to Taiwan tomorrow.
Clay Travis
Am I running my own foreign policy? I mean, this is absurd, right? But if. If I am, then thousands, tens of thousands of people in D.C. are. So it's. I wanted everyone to be reminded that Comey's a bad guy. And Trump isn't exaggerating what he says. This is a bad individual who is a narcissistic freak and wanted to really harm people and abuse his power to do so. And so if he lied under oath, he loves sending other people to prison for lying under oath about the most minute things. If he lied under oath, his ass should go to jail, too, Full stop.
Buck Sexton
And those charges need to come soon or else you're going to run into statute of limitations related issues. We'll get into some of this. We'll take some of your talk backs. Buck, get your pen. I got a winner for you. Tonight on Thursday Night Football, we have won two of the last three weeks. We've got a game going on tonight between the Seahawks and the Arizona Cardinals. Thursday Night Football. If you go to prizepix.com you go download the Prize Picks app. Use my name. Clay, you get $50 when you play. Five dollars. This one play pays out at two and a half to one. So if you put in $10, you get back to $25. You put in a hundred dollars, you get back $250. I feel good. About this one. We've won two of the last three weeks. First of all, we've got a guaranteed winner square. Jalen Hurts is going to throw for more than one half of a passing yard. So they're basically giving you one winner. All right, here are the two more Kyler Murray, Arizona quarterback tonight, is going to throw more than one half passing touchdowns. That means he needs to have one passing touchdown passing Sam Darnold more than one half passing touchdown as well. If I am correct, and I think I'm going to be correct, all three of these hit, it pays out at two and a half to one. So if Kyler Murray throws a touchdown pass tonight and if Sam Darnold throws a touchdown pass tonight and we take our free score square with Jalen Hurts, we're going to win tonight. Prizepix.com Code Clay you can download the app. You can play in California, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee where I am 40 plus states. Congrats. Like I said yesterday, price picks is killing it. Company just sold for over $4 billion. They have just been dominating. You're gonna have fun with them. Great American success story. PricePix.com Code Clay $5 turns into $50 automatically when you play your first $5 that is prizepix.com Code Clay Sometimes all you can do is laugh and they do a lot of it with the Sunday hang. Join Clay and Buck as they laugh it up in the Clay and Buck podcast feed on the I Hearts radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Least we have a chance with the.
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Wild card Clay, Atlanta. What happened to your team?
Buck Sexton
Have a good day, guys, and thank you for a wonderful show. Thank you. That's a great call. And the Braves fell apart, I think is the answer. My team, the Atlanta Braves, fell apart. Mets are in a battle to see whether or not they're going to make the playoffs. Buck. The Yankees have made it. Let me also say, while we're mentioning our W O R listeners, the New Jersey governor race, which we're going to talk about a little bit more, is going to be very, very close. Producer Ali has been attempting to get Jack Shitarelli. I never going to be able to pronounce this guy's name correctly. Maybe that's why he doesn't want to. Come on, Jack. Chit. Orelli. All right, Jack Cittarelli. You guys need to go vote for him. We want to get him on so he can talk to all of you as there is a big race. We had win some Sears from Virginia on. That's a big race there. We got some details on how the story is going there. New Jersey is a big race too. And so we want to get Jack Cittarelli on the program. And I will try to pronounce.
Clay Travis
Maybe we just call him Jack C for a while.
Buck Sexton
I mean, you know, we're going to get some FCC violations over me trying to pronounce this guy's name. And by the way, Chris is upset. I know Mark is upset. Please stop saying the assassins are writing slogans on the bullets. They are writing on the casings which are left behind after firing. Love you guys.
Clay Travis
I said yesterday.
Buck Sexton
Yeah. And I thought it's kind of understandable. The bullet is going into a body. We're not seeing it there. Yes. Okay. The casings. I apologize for not being specific enough.
Clay Travis
The.
Buck Sexton
The. We posted the photos and you can go check those out.
Clay Travis
Matt, when you mess up, when you mess up. Two way lingo, though, it's like. It's like saying, I love Alabama War Eagle. You know what I mean? Like if 2A stuff. People are very specific about terminology.
Buck Sexton
I'm not an expert in that.
Clay Travis
So.
Buck Sexton
So my apology, casings, not bullets. Matt from Rapid City, South Dakota, he appreciates you, Buck, taking a bullet for all of us when it comes to Kamala's book. BB book.
Clay Travis
Matt from Rapid City, South Dakota.
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And just want to say appreciate your willingness to step out there as a com ologist.
Clay Travis
But, you know, the way you are kind of falling on the sword for the team.
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Clay Travis
I don't know, There you go.
Buck Sexton
Not very nice.
Clay Travis
Very nice word. Very nice wordplay there. From. From Matt. And I tried to read more of the Kamala book last night.
Buck Sexton
How's it going?
Clay Travis
I fell asleep, like, instantaneously. So I. I do a lot of my reading at night before I go to bed, and I just think that her. It's so boring. It's so boring.
Buck Sexton
I really.
Clay Travis
I'm saying I'm doing a service for all of you. I'm. I'm trying to find the nuggets, and there are not very many nuggets. It's a lot of. A lot of chaff. Not a lot of wheat, you know.
Buck Sexton
So if it's blandly inoffensive and boring, which I think it's fair to say the book is, doesn't that suggest on some level that she's trying to preserve her political viability? Because if she had just written a flamethrower of a book and actually said a lot of interesting things, that to me would feel like, hey, I'm done with this. I'm going to ride off into the sunset. The political world is not for me. But when she writes, and I thankfully, am not reading it, but when she writes such a boring book, does it make you feel like, hey, maybe she wishes all her options open?
Clay Travis
I think that her. I think her plan is that she's still wants to keep that as a viable option. I just think that she's going to see those doors that. That. That window narrowing. And, I mean, I think Gavin Newsom wants to. Wants to have a throwdown. You know, I think he's going to get. It's going to get rougher and rougher as that gets closer, but we'll see.
Buck Sexton
Also, we've got a caller in Long Island, I believe. Let me hit him. Oh, no, sorry. Call. Yeah, Steve in Long Island. What you got for us?
Caller (Steve from Long Island)
Hey, guys, how are you?
Clay Travis
How you doing?
Caller (Steve from Long Island)
Great show, as usual. So weigh in on two things you guys been talking about this morning. The first is the concept of responsibility to, you know, verbalize bad things. One of the best indications, I just would say. I know. You're an attorney, right? Inherit the Win, in my opinion, the best lawyer movie ever. Great courtroom drama about the Scopes Monkey trial tried years ago. Clarence Darrow comes in, the best defense attorney in the world. And the whole case was about. It was a statute that prevented teaching anything in the classroom other than, you know, what was in the Bible. No. And as a young teacher, played by, actually, a guy that was in Bewitched, exchange young teachers teaching this classroom, eight young guys about Darwin and he gets cited in a local ordinance court. Almost like the Andy Griffith show, that type of small town. And the two you know best lawyers, crusaders for each side come down to try this case and Harry Morgan for MASH is the judge. And this is the final scene. Spencer Tracy playing the courtroom figure that was supposed to be Clarence now was arguing with the judge.
Buck Sexton
We're gonna lose him here. As we finish the hour, we'll talk to him.
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Episode: Hour 1 – Radical Leftwing Violence
Date: September 25, 2025
Host: Clay Travis & Buck Sexton (iHeartPodcasts)
In this hour, Clay and Buck tackle what they frame as a surge in radical leftwing violence in America, analyzing current events from recent shootings to political rhetoric. They discuss comparative national violence, the media’s handling of these topics, and delve into controversies surrounding James Comey and law enforcement actions under previous administrations. The hosts maintain a conversational and often combative tone, mixing commentary with news recaps, criticism of political opponents, and listener interactions.
Analysis of Violent Incidents:
Highlight: FBI Information on ICE Shooter
Buck Sexton:
"Anyone out there who is trying to argue that this is anything other than yet another leftwing shooter motivated by leftwing political arguments is being dishonest to you." ([10:14])
Donald Trump:
“The radical left is causing the problem. They're out of control… very low IQ people, actually... It's going to get worse. And ultimately it's going to go back on them.” ([11:14])
Clay Travis:
“I just appreciate that the president is saying it in the most plain spoken, straightforward, no nonsense way possible. He's like, the left is the problem, guys. The left are the ones doing the violence.” ([12:12])
Buck Sexton:
“Where is this rightwing violence? Or we're gonna have to hear about J6 again, is that... That's the big terrible thing, that's worse than 9/11.” ([13:46])
Buck Sexton:
“I don't even think that they could do this. I don't think they could turn it off now, is my point. I think they have unleashed this long enough on the American people that we are going to have to continue to suffer through what are just waves of domestic terrorism, plain and simple...” ([15:24])
Buck Sexton:
"There is a deranged lunatic fringe of the left that is acting on what they believe. That is true coming from the Democrat base, their arguments. And, buck, they think they're heroes." ([16:23])
Man Luigi Incident:
Media Coverage & Accountability:
Rick Santelli (Audio Clip):
“3.8% would be the best quarter going back... till 4.4. and that was 3Q23... But the balance is moving in favor and momentum is moving in favor for better growth.” ([03:22])
Possibility of Comey Indictment:
Discussion of Legal Ethics and Double Standards:
Comey (Clip):
"I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized administration… Let's just send a couple guys over." ([27:49])
Clay Travis:
"Comey set a perjury trap for the incoming national security adviser based on a non-crime... It was so diabolical." ([33:00])
Clay Travis, on budget cuts:
"Santa Claus is very tough to compete with—getting free goodies you don't have to pay for..." ([08:41])
Buck Sexton on Democrat rhetoric:
"The reason they say that is so they have an excuse to kill us... I don't believe that any of the Democrat leadership actually believes that argument." ([16:23])
Clay Travis on Comey:
"He's a bad dude. He's always been a bad dude. He's slithered from one administration to another within the bureaucracy and somehow always ended up...elevating himself." ([31:49])
Buck Sexton summarizing legal urgency:
"Those charges need to come soon or else you're going to run into statute of limitations related issues." ([35:26])
The episode is politically charged, humorous, and combative, reflecting the hosts’ conservative perspective. Commentary is direct, uses colloquialisms, and often employs sarcasm or rhetorical questions when critiquing political opponents, media narratives, or perceived double standards.
This hour lays out the hosts' position that recent violence has a distinctly leftwing political motivation and is underplayed by institutional media and the Democratic party. Through a mix of news recap, political analysis, and listener engagement, Clay and Buck make the case for more forceful condemnation and legal accountability for leftwing actors, while warning that a refusal to address the issue candidly will only fuel further unrest.
For listeners seeking in-depth takes on current events—particularly those regarding political violence, accountability in law enforcement, and conservative critiques of the left—this episode delivers a pointed, detailed, and at times provocative discussion.