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Buck Sexton
Welcome in Monday Edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. We hope all of you had fabulous July 4th. I was down on the first inaugural July 4th at the Gulf of America. Had an amazing time. Buck was down in Miami. We hope that you have gotten back or are in the process of returning from what have been a long holiday weekend. We've got a ton of news to dive into with all of you. The big beautiful bill passes as we told you it would. There was some drama, but Trump signed it on July 4th. It is now law certainty when it comes to taxes and beyond. We will discuss much of that as well as border security. Mom Donnie gets caught lying about his race on college applications. He is the Democrat nominee for mayor in New York City. Uh, I do think that is actually a story of some significance. Netanyahu visiting with Trump. We will update you on any of the fallout there. Puff Daddy, Sean Combs, Diddy, whatever you want to call him. We told you we were skeptical of the case. A lot of people were shocked when he was found not guilty of the most significant of those charges. We will discuss that quite a lot as well. But the biggest story I think coming out of the weekend is the flooding situation, which may well kill, unfortunately, 100 people in Texas. And I know many of you are in that listening area with us right now in Texas and are listening to us and experienced exactly what happened over the holiday weekend as a massive amount of rain fell and the river there swept away and rose at a level that is frankly, completely unheard of historically occurs. It's one of these things where it happens 500 year, thousand year floods. And it happened in the middle of the night and happened right along a basically church camp that has been in Texas for nearly 100 years, just shy of 100 years. I bet that many of you in that area, many of you who are Texans, may have gone, friends and family went there, many young lives lost. It is an awful, awful story there. And unfortunately, it immediately became a political ridiculousness. People trying to blame President Trump, people trying to blame Trump voters, Republicans. And that happened almost instantaneously based on everything that I have seen and read. And I tried to familiarize myself to a great degree with this story. It's just a cavalcade of really unfortunate events. In particular the fact that many of these alerts which all went out, were going out in the middle of the night and a lot of people were sleeping and the water rose so quickly that before people were even aware that they were in danger, many people found themselves standing in water or even having their homes in the places where they were staying near the river, underwater in a way that just happened overnight. And so I think there's going to be a lot of discussion going forward about how do we handle some of these situations in the future. I imagine a lot of you out there experienced it yourself and you're listening to us right now. I shared a charity, I'll retweet it, that I donated to, that I would encourage a lot of you if you want to give back to this community. But Buck, I think the biggest unfortunate aspect of this is that it happened in the middle of the night. Everybody is sleeping. You may be getting these alerts on your phones. You probably have the radio turned off. And it just happened so quickly that it caught people, a lot of people unaware. The alerts were going out. It was just most people were sleeping.
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Clay Travis
There are a lot of analyses already about what could have been done to have avoided this. And I know there's a lot of, of heartbreak for the families, for the communities and the girls at this camp mystic, which lost already 27 of its girls, its campers and counselors. I mean, it's horrible beyond words. And our hearts break for those who are affected, affected by this clay. I remember summer camp. It's so many of us. It's supposed to be a time of joy and a lot of people, some of their fondness, perhaps even fondest memories or summer camps growing up. And to have something like this, a tragedy like this hit that community, it's just unthinkable. Now we have immediately the what could have been done and they're still searching, I know. So their search and rescue efforts are underway and there have been some incredibly brave first responder efforts that have saved a lot of lives in this process when they are pulling people, have been pulling people out of trees, off of rooftops. The photos, the imagery of these floods does bring home pretty quickly to anybody, no matter where you are across the country, around the world, just how, how violent and how extreme these floodwaters were. And also for anyone who's been around or knows about this, it's more like a, a wall of, of, of kind of mud and silt. A lot of the time, the tremendous amount of debris in this water, it moves fast, it comes in high and there's a lot of stuff in it as well. So it can be very hard to, to maneuver in. And so it's obviously very lethal. I mean they've had clay. I was reading about previous rescue attempts. I believe there was a rescue attempt for a previous flood situation where the, where a bus full of people was swept away. So they were trying to get people away from it and the bus itself got swept away. To give you a sense of how houses disappear, obviously the camp, the sort of campgrounds that these girls were in, not able to withstand this. And people are saying, well, how could the warning have gone out sooner or what could have been done differently? There's siren alarm systems that are in place in neighboring counties that went off. There was an effort to get a similar alarm system in place in the county where Camp mystic was, was located and they didn't get the funding for it. Now would a, an alarm system like that, right? There's alarms that go off to your phones, there's the warnings, there's all these different pieces that come into play. But having sirens effectively like an air raid siren situation, would that have changed this? At 4am in this county, that's going to be something that people look at, I think very closely. But the timing of it could not have been worse in terms of the casualties that would come from the event. Because people are the most, you know, the most likely to be asleep, the least likely to be communicating with each other in the area and also the least able to handle moving. I mean, it's just that the truth is, any human being, you wake them up at 4 o' clock in the morning, they're moving more lethargically. They're not thinking clearly. And now you think about little kids at 4am and it's just a, it's a horrific situation and I know that it's, it's been a heartbreak for Texas and for the whole country. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
I think what you hit on is something that's going to be talked about. I turn my phone off a lot at night just because I don't want to be woken up. And I do think that one of the things that they've tried to do with tornadoes and tornadoes come through where I live and have hit my hometown of Nashville recently in a significant and deadly way. The tornado sirens are basically impossible to ignore. And we have situations where people don't get the notifications on their phones. Is there a flood related siren that can be installed? I don't know the answer to that, but I think that's the conversation that's going to happen going forward.
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Clay Travis
Warning systems always have this. Look, I'm in Florida, the hurricane capital of, of America. Right. I mean and, and you have Floridians who you're not going to get them to move out of where. You know, I know people who have been here now. They've obviously been alive for 50, 60, 70 years. They've been through a lot of hurricanes. You're not getting them to move no matter what the.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
What the warning is because they've been through. Look, we just had this in Florida actually recently where it was. This is the big one. It's going to hit Tampa. Tampa is going to be. And then sure enough, it actually hit western, hit my in laws area, western North Carolina much harder than it did the Tampa area in terms of the damage and the, the casualties from it. So in this case, Clay, if you have a lot of alarms going off, a lot of warnings going off in a place that is used to flooding, what then is the threshold for oh no, we've got to get to high ground right now as opposed to the area that we're in is having another flood. Right. That's where, you know, you can sense there's going to be some difficulty here to figure out how this could be avoided. And then also people, I think even Congressman Roy who this is this. A lot of this happened in his district, Chip Roy saying in an interview it's also a once in a century event. So it's very hard to prepare appropriately for what people call in probability analysis a black swan or a fat tail event. Right. Fat tail is low probability, very high impact. Basically something that you don't think is going to happen, but if it does happen, it's really bad. Well, that, that is what the situation is with these floods. So there'll be analysis of this. And I don't even think, I don't know how much you want to even talk about. There are people who have come out and tried to politicize this right away and it's, it's gross, it's pathetic and it's really just evidence of, of a political derangement. You know, I think it's much more important for everybody to focus on the first responder efforts, the search, ongoing search and rescue efforts, and to really look at this honestly and see what could have been done to make sure that this won't be done, this won't happen again in the future.
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Buck Sexton
No doubt. And I think what you said too, sometimes we actually over deliver in terms of, hey, there's a flood warning, there's a flood warning and sometimes the floods aren't that significant, but there is a flood warning. But I think really what happened here is it happened in the middle of the night. And I just think people, you know, most of history, you wouldn't have had a cell phone to be getting alerts on. If there is a way to sit around and really contemplate this going forward when they are able to fully have done all the recovery and all those efforts. I do wonder whether one of the things that they added here after the devastating tornadoes we've had is the sirens. Is there a way to have sirens along the river that notifies in a serious way when things like this are happening because people are sleeping? I mean, I think a lot of people frankly just got swept away in the middle of the night, never even knew they were in danger because the waters came up so fast here.
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Clay Travis
Yes. So they'll, they'll look at this much more closely. The experts will look at what could have been done here. But this is, this is true of a lot of natural disasters, which this clearly is. If it's bad enough. You're talking more about casualty mitigation than casualty elimination, meaning you're not going to be able to save everybody. You're trying to save as many people as possible. But when you're looking at almost 100 people in this area from flooding, that's just the numbers just far too, there's numbers far too high for anyone to think that this system was sufficient given the risk factors, no doubt.
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Buck Sexton
Also the holiday weekend probably increased the number of people, sadly, that were camping on alongside of the banks in the river as many people were doing to celebrate with their friends and family. So it really was the worst possible scenario with timing, with date and everything else associated with it. But our thoughts and prayers and we're going to. Again, I'll retweet what I am told is a very good charity that is local in the area that, that I've supported. And if you're wanting to do something, you can, you can join this as well.
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Clay Travis
If you want to call in and share your thoughts on this. If you live in the area or you know, people affected by it, lines obviously are open. We know we have our San Antonio affiliate, woai, which is a huge signal which does reach into this area. We have some other signals from smaller stations that are in the area. So if you're listening and you want to fill us in on just what you saw that happened yourself or what you know from people firsthand, what you're hearing about the search and rescue and first responder efforts which are ongoing, I believe they're still unfortunately expecting Clay. Pretty heavy weather today, so that complicates matters. But our lines are open and we definitely want to hear from you or we're all feeling this one. Let's talk about cyber scammers and how they're tricking Americans with fake passport application and renewal websites. So you think you're getting a passport, but instead you're actually getting your information stolen. Remember, there's only one official US Government site for applying for passports. Any other website is an imposter site that's trying to steal your info. Situations like these are all over the Internet. So it's really important to understand how cyber crime and identity theft are affecting our lives and a risk for all of us. And that's why you need Lifelock. Lifelocks online identity theft protection is the single best way to protect your online identity. They monitor millions of data points a second, the kind that may indicate your online identity has been stolen. Lifelock detects and alerts you to potential identity threats you may not spot on your own, like loans taken out in your name. And if you do become a victim of identity theft, a Lifelock member can actually help you with this. There's a dedicated US based restoration specialist at Lifelock who will help you fix it, guaranteed or your money back. I've had Lifelock for many years. You should have Lifelock watching your back. To join now and save 40% off your first year with promo code Buck, call 1-800-LIFELOCK or head to lifelock.com and use My Name Buck as your promo code for 40% off terms apply.
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Clay Travis
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. We will get some of your calls here. If you call in and are from the area where these horrible floods occurred so we'll get some of that here coming up in the back half of this hour. Want to hear from you. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the those affected, the families and the community here of the hill country of Texas. We've got a lot of news stories we're going to get to over the course of today. Clay mentioned the, the Sean Combs verdict, which was no way around it, a huge, a huge win for Sean Combs, which is that he was only, he was only found guilty essentially of two prostitution charges. So paying prostitutes, which is not something that people go away for, for long periods of time generally. I know they say he faces up to 10 years in federal prison, but he's not, I don't think he's going to get anywhere near that, Clay. We'll see. The judge could decide to make an example of him on the lower counts, but I think that would look, given that the higher counts which could have sent him to prison for life were acquittals, I don't think we're going to see that. So Clay and I, I think on the overall trajectory of that, we got that one right. We knew that was the RICO case was super shaky because people think rico, they think mobsters. They don't think one guy who's paying prostitutes. And obviously, did he? Did he, Sean Combs is sicko and a bad person. But that doesn't necessarily send you to prison. So there's that. There's also the DOJ statement about the Epstein situation, which we could talk about today. And will the DOJ and the FBI have come out to say, without a whole lot more explanation, Clay, that there is no client list, there was no blackmail operation and Epstein killed himself. I do not believe the first part of that. I don't know. I'm sorry. I know that our people are in charge now and there's good people that are looking into this. And now that doesn't mean that I'm not suggesting anyone's in on it or covering it up at the senior levels of DOJ or FBI. Now, Clay, I think you and I can see that. Well, I believe, and I think you're with me on this, that a lot of this stuff was. A lot of the evidence, the tapes, etcetera, Was destroyed and erased a long time ago, which has always been my concern. And so they don't have it.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And my thing from the get go is it's hard to become worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. Most people who are worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and make it in their life. You go back and you look, I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire. This guy was nearly a billionaire. Usually you have to build something. What did he build?
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Clay Travis
He was given in a 60 or $70 million house. Given. So explain this to me everybody. This guy. Anyway, there's a lot I'm just telling you right now. We can get into it. I don't buy it, guys. I don't buy it. I don't accept the DOJ response on this.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
So Andy McCarthy, who we've had on the show many times, who is a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York for over 20 years, okay, a federal prosecutor, when I talked to him years ago about this, said Andy, have you ever heard of the deal that was given? Remember, the deal was so favorable that a Trump administration, in the first administration. Cabinet official. I think it was at the. I don't want to say it because I don't want to get it wrong, but there was a cabinet level official, not like a Secretary of state level, but I think it was a Labor.
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Buck Sexton
Department.
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Clay Travis
Had to step down because he had previously. Guys, give me the name of the U.S. attorney for. I think it was the Southern District of Florida who signed off on this because he had previously been involved in the Epstein plea deal. Okay? So that's how egregious it was. But I asked Andy, I said, have you ever heard of a federal criminal, by the way, you know, sex criminal case where somebody was able to get immunity for future unnamed collaborators? And he said, no, I've never heard of that. Because why would any prosecutor give that to somebody as part of a plea bargain? There's no reason to do that. Epstein got that in that deal as part of the. And it was incredibly. I mean, the guy was. Was, you know, I mean, the stuff he was doing is just horrible. He was paying girls who were, I think, as young as 13, 14 years old. I mean, stuff that would get a person sent away for decades and decades, maybe forever for. And he got like six months of showing up to, like, the county jail, basically, and, you know, sitting at a desk. I mean, it was. And being able to go home some night. It was crazy, the deal, okay? So someone explained to me why he got that deal. Someone explained to me how this wasn't of higher interest to the authorities in the state of Florida at the time. And the Palm beach county prosecutor, remember, federal. He got nailed on Federal. He could have been nailed on for. By Palm Beach County. Clay, you go on and on with this stuff. All the houses are set up with surveillance cameras. I mean, I shouldn't say surveillance. It's really more, you know, interior. It's not like external cameras. The rooms are mic'd up. Okay? He's got his own bedrooms and everything else and massage parlor room and all the stuff mic'd up. And I talked about this before. They had the FBI raid the New York home which he was given, which is worth like 60 to 80 million dollars, depending. I mean, it's like the most extravagant home anybody could ever live in on the Upper east side of Manhattan. He was given this home to your point about where the money was made, Clay. And the FBI breaks in. They find that he has tapes which the FBI lost custody of. Matter of public record. He has tapes that are in a safe which is hidden in a wall which the FBI broke. Who keep. If he's just making home videos of himself, why would he keep the home videos in a safe in the wall? Like, it makes no sense. All.
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Buck Sexton
All of it doesn't add up. And then we've also had statements made. Let me just play a couple of these cuts that I think are going to be difficult to walk back in the wake of this now. I think it's fair to say. I don't think Cash Patel. I don't think Dan Bongino. I think a lot of this evidence was gone. Right. I think they wiped it clean. I don't think there's some sort of COVID up on behalf of the either of these guys. But I do think this was Pam Bondi on February 21st of 2025 saying she's got the Epstein client list on her desk right now, and she's reviewing it. And then I'm going to play another cut later. They have suggested that there was going to be a major revelation. And basically there's now nothing here. They're saying cut one.
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Clay Travis
DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients. Will that really happen?
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F
It's sitting on my desk right now to review. That's been a directive by President Trump. I'm reviewing that. I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files. That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the President from all of these agencies.
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Buck Sexton
So.
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Clay Travis
So have you seen anything that you said? Oh, my gosh, not yet. Okay.
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Buck Sexton
So to be fair, not yet. And let me also say this. The client list, some of these people. And this also goes with the airplane flights. And just because you were on a private jet doesn't mean that. I mean, we've talked with Alan Dershowitz about this. Doesn't mean that you were engaged in some sort of awful behavior, right? There are a lot of people who flew on these jets. They had 10 people named on them, all these different things. But there was the idea that there were going to be revelations that were more significant. Here is, I think In March, cut 30, another one from Pam Bondi.
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Listen, you're looking at these documents going, these aren't all the Epstein files. You know, they were flight logs. They were names and victims names. And we're going, where's the rest of the stuff? And that's what the FBI had turned over to us. And so a source said, whoa, all this evidence is sitting in the Southern District of New York. So based on that, I gave them the deadline. Friday at 8, a truckload of evidence arrived. It's now in the possession of the FBI. Cash is going to get me and himself really a detailed report as to why all these documents and evidence had been withheld. And you know, we're going to go through it, go through it as fast as we can, but go through it very cautiously to protect all the victims of Epstein because there are a lot of victims.
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Buck Sexton
Okay, so now the, those are two different cuts. And now on Friday, was it Sunday night in the midst of all the other chaos going on, lots of news over the weekend, over the holiday, they say, yeah, there's nothing else here, this story. And also they put up a video, they say, from outside of the hallway saying, hey, he did commit suicide. Here's a video doesn't have the normal video cameras.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I, I am, you know, I wonder where you are on this. We haven't talked about this before, the suicide thing. I am willing to believe, I'm more.
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Buck Sexton
Inclined to believe that to be true.
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Clay Travis
And I do think, and I'm very aware of the guy falling asleep and the cameras and, you know, it's an extreme coincidence situation. So don't yell at me for this because I'm aware of the, that I can. I'm like, maybe this actually is the only guy to ever commit suicide. At the end. I'm like talking myself out of this as we're discussing it, but that I could, but that I could maybe find credible. I mean, I talked to, I talked to. I remember a former Attorney General Barr, I believe about this when they did the review and he said, look, it's, I thought it was very sketchy too, but this is what happened. Ok, that, but the Epstein wasn't running a blackmail operation and he was the only guy involved with any of these. He was the only guy we are to believe other than the one Royal. Right. The English Guy, Prince Andrew, the only guy who is alleged to have been involved with any of these underage, underage girls as part of this trafficking slash blackmail scheme. I just don't find that credible. I just don't find that credible. I don't. And I also sit here and say this guy, to your point, he's worth. They found, I think it was 6 or $700 million that this guy had amassed. Where the more the money come from. This is all wire transfers. This is all trackable. He didn't make it. Trading the market. For him to make this money, trading the market, Clay, he would have to be the biggest financial genius in the history of the stock market. It's just not possible.
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Buck Sexton
There's always. You can become a millionaire just by doing smart things with your money. You might even be able to come 10 or 15 millionaire. Right. As a normal person, you don't become hundreds of millions of dollars wealthy without creating something. Right. Like there has to be some linchpin to it.
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Clay Travis
He would have to be managing. If he were managing a, you know, a multi billion dollar hedge fund which would have SEC scrutiny and would have all kinds of regulatory burden and would have investors and what. You know.
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Buck Sexton
That's right.
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Clay Travis
Okay, then. Then, you know, maybe he's a guy who was managing money, who's got the super sketch, you know, super criminal and awful private life, but he just did this on his own, quietly. There's just no way. There's just no. Everyone I know on Wall street will say this if you ask them. There's no way this guy just made this money. So it's not a blackmail operation, but we don't know where the money came from. And also he's able to get the. Honestly, let's. Let's just put it out there. The richest and most powerful people on the planet. Some of them. Some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet are willing to hang out with this guy and willing to go to his like, weird little island.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it doesn't happen.
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Clay Travis
They're asking a lot here that this was. It was just him. He was just doing his thing and there was nothing else involved. I just, I don't buy it. I don't, I don't accept that this is what happened. So the DOJ can say it, and maybe that's based on the information they have. I do not accept this explanation.
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Buck Sexton
We'll take some of your calls. By the way, I do think that there has been a buildup of Jeffrey Epstein as the ultimate boogeyman. And it is also possible that they've played into this. I mean, they had the influencers that they brought in, and they gave them the little files with basically no information, and they posed for photos outside. Yeah. Why would they do that? I agree.
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Clay Travis
Clay, if it was. If there was nothing, why was there, like, Epstein, you know, file release day at the White House, which we all saw, which was not a good moment for this doj. What was that?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, I agree.
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Clay Travis
Can we get an explanation to. I. If these questions can be answered. And maybe they can. And maybe, you know, and I'm just gonna say I do. I know Cash. I know Dan. I have tremendous faith in those guys and their integrity, and I'm not impugning either. Their integrity. I think that they're doing everything that they can based on what they have.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Clay Travis
I think a lot of what they have is less than what was out there. I think that there's been a cleanup operation that's been going on for a very long time. But maybe there are answers to the questions I put forward that will be presented. But until someone can tell me definitively how the money all came together, what was on the surveillance tapes, you know, and how this guy was able to get away with what he got away with, which no other person in the history of the criminal justice system had been able to, I do not accept this explanation.
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Buck Sexton
We'll take some of your calls on this chip. Roy is going to join us at the top of the third hour. He's Congressman representing the area of Texas, which, unfortunately, we're probably headed towards a hundred or more people that ended up dying in those floods. I think the official death tally is now well over 80, if I'm not mistaken. And there's still a lot of people missing, so we will talk about that with him. Get you the latest there. A lot of you want to weigh in on this. We'll take some of your calls. In the meantime, do you want to preserve your family memories? A lot of you getting together on July 4th through Friday. You guys were all hanging out, maybe having a great barbecue. So many people all over the country just celebrating the 249th anniversary of America's independence. And that's what Legacy Box is all about. You probably took digital photos. I know I did. Shared them with friends and family all over the country. But how many previous July 4th? Did you have a camcorder? Did you have old camera pictures that were being taken that are not digitized? Legacy Box exists to take your old family memories and turn them into digital memories that can be easily, easily shared. They can carefully handle old photos, videos, films, more. Return it all with brand new digital files. Both of our families have benefited from Legacy Box. You can as well. Don't let your childhood fade away. Don't let those old family memories vanish. Get hooked up now@legacybox.com Clay for 50% off your order. That's a legacybox.com Clay legacybox.com Clay Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Lines are all lit. Let's get to it right away. Appreciate you being with us everybody. Let's take Joanne in Kerrville, Texas. Joanne, you are in the area where these terrible floods happen. What can you tell us?
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G
I I can tell you several things about it. First of all, one of the things that has been extremely hard is the fact that this area has been in a drought situation for a couple of years and many people in the area have been praying for rain. And when we went to bed On December, on July 3, we were looking forward to attending a concert on the river and we were also expecting that that would go off fun, that there would be wonderful fireworks. Unfortunately, that is the night that we our Prayers for rain were answered.
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Buck Sexton
All right. So what did you, when did you become aware? You're in Kerrville when you, it's raining, obviously hard, people are sleeping. When did you become aware, hey, this is a major, major awful situation.
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G
The next morning when I woke up.
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Buck Sexton
So you didn't. Even though the alerts might have been coming, like you just happened to be in an area that did not flood, but you knew it was raining but had no idea how bad it was?
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G
That is partially true, yes. I do live in an area where some areas of my neighborhood were flooded. I was not affected by it. As I had told screener, I lived, I live about two and a half blocks from the river where all of the Fourth of July things were to take place the next day.
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Buck Sexton
Well, thank you.
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Clay Travis
Think an early warning system would have made a difference or a different, I should say a different early warning system?
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G
No, I do not.
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Clay Travis
All right.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you. Joanne Ingram, Texas. Here, let's see what Fred, you went through it. Do you agree with Joanne? Is your experience similar to hers, Fred?
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Unknown
Somewhat so. When, when I Woke up at 3 o' clock in the morning, I live as a crow flies maybe a half a mile away from the Guadalupe in Ingram. I got up and it was raining, just moderate. And at 7 o' clock in the morning, I got a phone call. Is it really flooding that bad? And I walked out and looked at my rain gauge and I received three and a half inches of rain. What the problem was is that backside of that hurricane sat installed over the north and south fork of the Guadalupe and it dumped over 12, 13 inches of rain from what we've been told. And that's what happened. It just washed straight downstream and there was no time, no time for anybody to do anything because there was a warning. We're in a flood warning. But I was sitting outside that night and there was no rain, no nothing.
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Clay Travis
Wow.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you for the call. I think you, you and I would agree on this, buck, that no matter who the president was, the number of people that unfortunately died from this incident were going to happen. I think trying to blame politics in any way is just flat out untrue, unfair.
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