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The News Agents we're not just here to tell you what's happening but why from me, Emily Maitlis and me John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast the News Agents Dropping daily covering everything you need to know about about politics and current affairs and The News Agents USA listening to the News Agents on America's number one podcast network iHeart. Open your free Iheart app and search the News agents to start listening. Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. You have got me solo this week as Buck is in Taiwan. Hopefully China doesn't invade this week. That would be quite the reporting from Buck over there. But in all seriousness he is in Taiwan. He will be back next week. I've got you guys this week solo as there is a ton of news that is going on right now in real time. I hope all of you had fantastic weekends. I was down in Athens, Georgia, saw the great Georgia Bulldog team lose its 33 game home winning streak to Alabama and also interviewed Paul Fine Bomb will play a little bit of that for you. If you are a college football fan, you certainly know who Paul Fine Bomb is. He told me in a exclusive sit down interview that he is potentially going to run for Senate in Alabama. That story is going to ricochet around everywhere and trust me, there's more coming there. We'll maybe get into that a little bit in the hours that we have to spend ahead. But let me kind of set the table on all of the craziness and zaniness that is underway right now. President Trump is trying to get a Middle east peace accord relating to Gaza. Nearly two years after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on the innocent people of Israel, the fallout has now continued for nearly two years. The war in the Middle east there has gone on for nearly two years. And Netanyahu right now at the White House meeting with President Trump, there are reports that there is a 21 point peace pact that the United States is trying to get agreed to by both Hamas and Israel that would bring this war to a close. So that is going on right now. There is potentially, and you guys know that I kind of roll my eyes over this because I don't know necessarily that very much changes, but there is potentially going to be a shutdown of the federal government. Some of you are like, yay, why don't we shut it down more frequently? October 1st that would go into effect. If we do not get essentially an agreement worked out in the next, I don't know what, 36 hours or so, then the federal government would shut down. My general proposition on government shutdowns is they've happened so many times over the last 25 or 30 years that no one really cares. 40 years. I guess going back to the Clinton era was the first time I remember the whole government shutdown process turning into a big political issue. Uh, eventually they get a worked out solution. But a lot of people want to tell you that there is going to be substantial drama there. Eric Adams has dropped out of the New York City mayor's race. There are three primary races that are scheduled to take place in a little over a month. Mayor of New York City, governor of New Jersey, governor of Virginia. In the first real test to see what, if anything, has shifted in the one year since Trump was elected as President of the United States, Eric Adams, again the current mayor of New York City dropping out. That leaves Curtis Lewa and Andrew Cuomo as the competition running against Momdani. Momdani is a big favorite right now, if you look at the prediction markets to be elected. And it would need to be a 1v1 battle in New York City for this to turn into anything of any substantial significance. J.K. rowling, in terms of the closeness of that race, J.K. rowling, who might be my favorite public celebrity in the world right now, just went scorched earth nuclear bomb style on Emma Thompson, who, who played Hermione Granger in all the Harry Potter movies over trans related issues. I'm going to read you some of that because I read it this morning as I was drinking my Crockett coffee and I just thought, man, I didn't even need coffee this morning. I just needed Harry Potter author J.K. rowling to jump into. Did I say Emma Thompson? Emma Watson. Emma Thompson is also a British actress. Isn't she a lot older? Yeah. All right. Well, that's a whiff by me, right out of the gate. Emma Watson. I don't know how many of you caught that, but thanks to the team for being on top of that. Yeah, Emma Thompson, much older, probably much less famous British actors, I believe as well. But yes, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in all of the Harry Potter movies. So I want to start, however, with an awful story that happened yesterday in the state of Michigan. A Mormon church was burned down. Four people were killed. Caroline Levitt went on, I believe this was Fox and friends this morning to talk about what we know about that Michigan shooting, about that latest attack on religion in the United States. A church burned basically to the ground and four innocent people killed. This is what Caroline Levitt had to say we know at this point in time is that he was a member of this Michigan community, that he is a veteran of our United States Armed Forces. He served in the United States Marine Corps in Iraq. His family is cooperating with the FBI. And so they are currently trying to dig in and get to the bottom of why he committed. There's just this heinous act of violence. It's unfathomable. And as the president rightfully put in his true social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians. And the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes, but prosecuting them to the full, fullest extent of the law, but also working very hard to prevent them. Okay, so we will continue to monitor that story as well. Again, there are tons of different things underway right Now, Middle east, peace with the White House, potential government shutdown. And this is probably the story that got the most attention during the course of the weekend. It is the charges against James Comey. Um, and I wanted to play this. Comey actually did an interview with CNN right before he got indicted. Uh, this is back in May saying he was never able to get me. Here is Comey taunting Trump. This is cut 8. And again, two felony indictments in Northern Virginia in a blue area that would be very favorably disposed to James Comey. But listen to how cocky he was about believing that there would be no consequences for his actions. Cut 8. I'm still considered a villain in MAGA world. Hope I said that correctly. Although I've offended enough people in MAGA world. It doesn't matter at this point. I'm not sure exactly why that is. I often joke on the relationship that Trump can't get over. Wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about me and how I'm living my best life. I think it has some combination of I really have had a happy, productive life since then and, and that I spoke out about him and that despite their absolute best efforts, they were never able, never able to get me. Well, a little bit spoke too soon. He should have maybe started to high step into the end zone. Not seeing that you still had one defender left. And he got flattened right before he was going into the end zone when he thought the statute of limitations was going to run out. I haven't heard very many people talk about this. We talked about it on the program in the immediate aftermath of the indictment. This is deep blue Alexandria, Virginia, for those of you who know the D.C. area well, northern Virginia, very much of a connected hotspot for the Democrat Party based on its proximity to Washington, D.C. it's not as if they went to my home state of Tennessee or Alabama or West Virginia or Wyoming, some state that overwhelmingly voted for President Trump and got an indictment. Not only did they go to a state that Trump lost, they Virginia, they lost about five points. They went into the bluest part of that state, one of the bluest parts in the country. And I give. I think this should be hammered home more. I give J.D. vance credit here. He's one of the few that has been pointing this out for everybody out there, saying, oh, this is unbelievable. This is unprecedented. We know they're liars. They didn't say anything when they tried to bankrupt, imprison and kill Trump. But even if you wanted to make an argument that this was some sort of unprecedented attack, on norms of American life. That's already happened with what Democrats did, but they did it in a rigged jury pool that advantaged them massively. We got these double invite indictments coming down in Northern Virginia, where likely the majority of the people on the grand jury, probably the vast majority, this is 75, 25 area that is in favor of the Democrat Party. The vast majority of these grand jurors that indicted James Comey were actually Kamala Biden Obama voters. Here is J.D. vance pointing that out. Cut 11. This was a grand jury indictment delivered in Alexandria, Virginia. Not exactly a hotbed of Donald Trump's political support. And to the people who are saying that this is all political, I mean, look, if you look at our track record in the Trump administration, there have been people who have been prosecuted, who have been political allies, who agree with our politics, there have been people who disagree with our politics. We're not letting politics drive this. We're letting the requirements of the justice system and the law drive this. And unfortunately for James Comey, when I look at this indictment, I see a guy who lied under oath and he'll have his day in court. He'll have his opportunity to prove the other case in front of the jury. But the idea that this is driven by politics, I think is preposterous. So I think J.D. vance is exactly right. Now, I still would argue that it's unlikely that we're going to see a conviction of James Comey because the jury pool is going to be a 75%, probably Biden Kamala voting jury pool. And I think at least one of those jurors will say, I'm not convicting James Comey because I hate President Trump. And they're not gonna look at the actual facts here. Also, we've got an Obama appointed judge who I believe is going to be very favorably disposed towards James Comey. Having said all of that, Lindsey Halligan getting a double indictment here right before the statute of limitations expires is huge. And here is, and I want to talk about some of this, here is where this can become a much more significant factor going forward. If they are able to get someone to testify against James Comey. Is there someone out there in the FBI who has seen the light of day and is willing to tell the truth and knows that James Comey was encouraging leaks or leaking himself related to this Russia collusion hoax? Remember, that is what he is being prosecuted for. Not even necessarily the leaks, but just potentially perjuring himself under testimony in front of Congress. The only ways that you can prove perjury. Right. Are circumstantial evidence. That is all of the other factors that prove that someone knowingly lied surrounding the lie or and this is a part of the circumstantial evidence, but direct evidence from someone who knows that Comey was lying, someone who is testifying that Comey knew that his testimony was dishonest, untrue, in front of the, in front of that congressional committee. That, to me, is one of the questions that I have out here. How are they going to put this case together? It's a challenging case. It's a challenging judge, It's a challenging jury pool. But Lindsey Halligan getting that indictment where she did up against the timeframe is an incredible accomplishment by her and I do think has set the table for there to be consequences for all of these acts that were put in place against President Trump. All right, no guest schedule today. 800-282-2882. We'll take a bunch of your calls, bunch of your talkbacks. Appreciate all of you. Again, tons of different current event stories that we are monitoring, including a hearing related to the Charlie Kirk assassination that is also taking place out in Utah that we will be on top of as well. So a lot of different breaking news stories. We're going to keep you updated on all of them as we roll through. And in the meantime, I want to tell you it's falling. 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From rookies making their debut to legends, NFLShop.com has it all. Score exclusive styles you won't find anywhere else and show up ready for every kickoff and big play Fan like a pro and shop now@nflshop.com Take a deep dive into the stories making the news headlines across the world. The News Agents we're not just here to tell you what's happening, but why. From me, Emily Maitlis and me, John Sopel with Global's award winning podcast the News Agents Dropping Daily covering everything you need to know about politics and current affairs and the newsagents USA listening to the newsagents on America's number one podcast network, iHeart. Open your free iHeart app and search the newsagents to start listening. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show again. We are monitoring a ton of different stories that are happening in real time. Middle east peace, kind of a big deal right now. Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House. We've got the Mormon church attack in Michigan, Eric Adams dropping out, the Comey fallout. And I do want to play some of what they are telling you about the Comey fallout, which is not going to stun you, but the inability to understand what's going on. Chuck Schumer here, I should say it's not the inability to understand. It's the lack of willingness to recognize that Democrats put all this in motion. And I want to continue to talk about this because I do think it's significant. This is a paper cut. They basically tried to bankrupt, they tried to kill. They tried to imprison for the rest of his life President Trump. They went after the actual top of the Republican Party. Comey is the 768th most powerful person in America. He may not even be that high. He's, I believe, a registered Republican. And these charges are basically a paper cut compared to the nuclear bomb that Democrats were willing to unleash on President Trump and all of his supporters. Now, this is just the beginning. But understand what Democrats are saying. Chuck Schumer is saying no president has ever weaponized the DOJ like Trump. Cut 14 I have no faith in Donald Trump's judicial system. He has turned this judicial system to be his own political political fighter. Do what he wants politically so that he tells them to go after people he doesn't like. He tells them to exonerate people that he likes. So many people are getting pardoned and this and that. He has turned this Justice Department into his own political watchdog. It's horrible. No president has done this. This is what autocrats do. This is when Trump says he wants to be king, to do it. Yeah. Okay. So that's what they're arguing. Chuck Schumer, of course, said nothing at all while they tried to bankrupt, imprison and basically kill President Trump. We got a bunch of talkbacks. But the news out there, I'll hit this when we come back. They have had a hearing on the Charlie Kirk assassin. They have now said October 30th will be the next hearing. Proceedings are going to be open to the public. As that story continues, to play itself out. Also want to talk about the continued impact of Charlie Kirk's life when we come back during the course of this program. Amazing turning point event at the Oregon Penn State game where 5,000 Penn State students were wearing the T shirts that Charlie Kirk was wearing when he was shot. The impact continues to echo, reverberate and resonate throughout the entirety of the country. I want to tell you now about Rapid Radios and the impact they can have in helping so many people out there be able to stay in touch with people that they care about the most. If you're running a business, connecting with employees is key. Phones and email. But if you want to send a message quickly, how about Rapid Radios? 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I think you don't attack a church and light it on fire and typically be a super religious person who thinks the church is doing amazing work. So I think we have pretty good sense that anti religion was a substantial part, anti Christian, anti Mormon violence was a substantial part of his goal. But again, that is going on right now. Governor Whitmer of Michigan is having that press availability and discussing what exactly happened there. Also, we have been talking about the fact that there is a meeting going on right now in the White House between Netanyahu and Trump relating to a Mideast peace accord of some degree. And there has just been a report that came out that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke on the phone with the prime Minister of Qatar and apologized for violating Qatari's sovereignty in the strike on Doha and expressed regret for the killing of a Qatari security guard. Call took place during the meeting going on right now between Netanyahu and Trump, that is according to Axios. Ok. So there are just a ton of different moving parts as we are dealing with all of these different meetings going on right now. Not to mention there is also the looming government shutdown which people may get fired up about. But I think the majority of you understand is more sort of political posturing than anything else. Eventually, unfortunately, what's going to happen is both sides are going to agree to spend more of your money and the national debt is going to grow. So we are just trying to monitor all of these details as they are continuing to come in. I also think as we come up on the two year anniversary of the attack on October 7, that Trump isn't just looking for a short term solution to the situation in Gaza. This 21 part peace potential agreement is incredibly detailed and it's designed to try to preserve some form of lasting peace in the region. The fact that Netanyahu is apologizing to Qatar is I think indicative that there is a potential substantial progress being made here. But also keep in mind that Netanyahu is increasingly isolated. Reports were that when he flew from the, from Israel to the United States that he tried to avoid airspace of some European countries and added an extra hour to his trip because he was worried about potentially entering into the airspace of countries that have said that he could be arrested for war crimes. So this is, this is pretty, pretty staggering that we could be in a situation where one day Netanyahu, if he were to touch down on the soil in many different European countries, most European countries at this point, certainly most of the western European countries, that he could be arrested and charged with war crimes. That's how much people have completely lost their minds on this story and this issue. And I think Trump deserves a great deal of credit for trying to work through and figure out a solution to this. Now we also have the Ukraine, Russia conflict and over the weekend Russia launched one of its biggest drone incursions and attacks of the war as well. And there is talk now that Ukraine is going to get more advanced weaponry. So I think Trump expected for the Ukraine Russia war to be easier to solve. And I think he had hoped that he would have the Middle east situation resolved at this point in time as well. But at least we are moving towards a potential solution. There team is monitoring the Gretchen Whitmer live press conference and so far she has sped said that she spoke with Trump and that she is sending her condolences. And that press conference just wrapped. Again, we'll see whether or not There are any additional news stories to come out of that just happening in Utah. This was the latest hearing on the Charlie Kirk assassination. Here is the judge assigned that case. Cut 34 from Judge Tony Graffiti. Here is what just happened in that Utah courtroom. Listen, let me be clear. I will not put my finger on the scale of justice. These proceedings will be open to the public, conducted in accordance with the law, and handled with diligence and competence to ensure that justice is never compromised. It is the standing order of this court that Mr. Robinson shall be allowed to appear in person so he can fully engage with his attorneys and participate in these legal proceedings. Counsel, regardless of who is watching, whether it is the nation or a single individual, we must fulfill our roles with integrity, civility and diligence. I encourage each of you to give your very best to this case. Neither Mr. Robinson nor the people of Utah deserve anything less than the fair and impartial administration of justice. We're going to dive into this during the course of the program a bit more because the Charlie Kirk fallout, the reverberations of his assassination are continuing to impact things in a significant fashion. And some of you may well have noticed this at the Oregon Penn State game. So I talked with you all about the fact that Charlie was a big Oregon fan and I give a lot of credit to Turning Point usa. They had a one mile line, one mile line of young college age students who wanted to get these freedom T shirts that were emblazoned that that Charlie Kirk was wearing when he got shot. They had a white out. Everybody wore white shirts inside of Beaver Stadium. Now, Oregon Ducks got the win, but there were 5,000 kids that were wearing freedom white T shirts inside of the Penn State students section. And I do believe that the impact of the Charlie Kirk assassination is continuing to provide profound and positive consequences in many different respects, including, and I'll play this a little bit later for you, Paul Feinbaum of ESPN and the SEC Network. In fact, I'll probably start the next hour talking about this, said that he couldn't stop thinking about the Charlie Kirk assassination because he spends so much time on college campuses himself. And I was with him on a college campus at the University of Georgia this weekend and he just couldn't stop thinking about it. And it has him potentially now entering the political arena. And it's already had him. He said he was tired of not being honest, coming out and saying, hey, I'm a Trump voter, I'm a registered Republican. Even inside of Disney, where that has not been very favorably received, I'm not willing to stay quiet anymore. And he said a big reason why is what he saw happen with Charlie Kirk. So we'll play you some of those cuts. We'll continue to react. I'll take your talk backs when we return. Also your calls. And as I said, there are about four or five different major stories all taking place right now being updated in real time. Will continue to keep all of you updated with the absolute latest there too. But I want to tell you about one of our newest sponsors here on the program, Cozy Earth. And this, this is actually, this is funny. So Cozy Earth has phenomenal product and they say, hey, whenever a new customer comes on as part of the new customer, both Buck and myself and our families, they'll say hey, we want to send you some of our products so you're aware of what we do. And I told my wife and she said, oh, this is unbelievable. And what did she order? Producer ALI they said it was one of these 17 sets of sheets. Is that what you they said it was one of the biggest orders they had ever seen in the history of somebody doing live radio reads. 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I told you guys, I will get too many of your reactions. No guest today. Buck is in Taiwan and so he will be back with us Monday. I've got you this week entirely myself. So just FYI, I'm gonna hit a bunch of your talkbacks here. Let's go with, I believe AA was the first in the cut sheet. Guys, let's just run through a bunch of these in order. Cut AA please. Hey guys, this is Amanda. I'm in Brentwood, Tennessee. Clay, I actually know your wife. She's a total badass. We used to run together. Well, I used to run behind her. She's really fast. I was just going to share that I have kids, they're 18 and 21, and when it comes to punctuation and emojis and text, just don't use any of them. Don't use any. Seems rude to me, but it actually simplifies things. So just cut them all out. We've got a lot of people reacting to topics on basically everywhere under the sun. And if you are in any way trying to interact with kids on a day to day basis via text, it's almost impossible to tell what's going on. I think that was the, the, the reaction there. Podcast listener Tim in Michigan, he listened to Jack Chitterelli. I got it right that time. And here's what he had to say. Just listen to the Jack Citarelli interview. Wow, that was really good. He didn't dodge anything. One of the best interviews ever. Thank you, gentlemen. Mega dittos. Tim. That was Friday show, maybe Thursday show. I can't remember exactly. Tim from Arizona listening out at. I, I already have screwed up one thing. I got Emma Thompson and Emma Watson mixed up. And here is Tim weighing in on. I'm a Harry Potter fan and I just wanted to let you know that you weren't far off. Emma Thompson and Emma Watson were both in Harry Potter and they're actually both in Beauty and the Beast too. Emma Thompson played one of the professors in Harry Potter. There you go. This is an easy mistake anybody could have made. But I'm going to talk about this a little bit later in the program because J.K. rowling has finally fired back at Emma Watson. Many of the Harry Potter crew have been furious with J.K. rowling because she's been willing to speak out on the absurdity of transgender. This idea that men can become women. And Emma Watson appears to be stepping back from that criticism, as many others are now starting to speak out about the absurdity of it. It here's Moses in western Montana. What's got, what you got going on? Look it, did we do something wrong over the weekend? Why are you punishing us? Listeners having to listen to Chucky Schumer talk is almost as bad as listening to Andrew Como sanctimoniously patronize everybody. No more shuck. So that was Schumer trying to argue that what Trump is doing is unprecedented. I do want to mention this because it is big news and it is getting snowed under a bit. Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York City, dropped out of the race for New York City mayor yesterday. Here's the problem, Mom Donnie, as long as he still has two opponents, Curtis Lewa and Andrew Cuomo, is going to win comfortably. We had one of our callers last week was upset that I was, that I was sharing that. And he said, well, you know polls, you can't trust them. I actually think one of the most interesting places you can go on the Internet if you want to get a real sense of where people are putting their money down is Kalshee, which is legal in the United States. And right now we've got a huge lead for Mom Donnie to be the next mayor of New York City. And that is where people are putting their actual money in, not where people are looking at polls. And I'll talk a little bit about that in a moment. But I wanted to play both of these. Here is Eric Adams, cut 24, dropping out of the New York City mayor's race. It has been my honor to be your mayor and I'm proud to say that we took that victory four years ago and turned it into action, making this city better for those who have been failed by government. And yet, despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my re election campaign. The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board's decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign. Okay, so right now in real time, there is an 83% chance, according to Kalshee, that Mamdani is going to be elected mayor of New York City. Andrew Cuomo has a 16% chance. Curtis Sliwa has around a 1% chance. That means you can legitimately put your money down. And if Sliwa won the mayor's race, you would a hundred times your money. That is the market's telling you that Sliwa has no chance. I don't understand what Curtis Sliwa is doing. This feels entirely like a vanity project and I'm not saying you've heard me argue on this program. I think probably the best thing from a national political perspective is Momdani winning. I think it's an awful thing for New York City. But he won the Democrat mayoral primary and now everybody's scrambling to try to save Democrats from the choice that they made. And the savior is Andrew Cuomo, who made the worst possible decisions during COVID who was forced to resign as the governor of New York because of sexual harassment allegations. This is the guy who's going to save New York City. He was awful. He's just not a communist. But these are the choices that are left now for New York City. I would say Curtis Lewa needs to drop out. I still think Mamdani would win, but the election is in 36 days. As long as there are multiple people splitting the anti Mamdani vote, then there is no actual race to worry about here. Mamdani is going to win. 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