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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Clay Travis
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Clay Travis
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
Listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand on the iHeartrade app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. It became known as the Iran Contra Affair.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jack Armstrong
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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Clay Travis
Welcome everybody, to the Thursday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Some quick housekeeping. Buck is back. As in I'm normal today. Yesterday was a bit of a challenge. I appreciate all of you rolling with me. Had to hydrate in the breaks and it was a little touch and go. But I'm back, I'm healthy, ready to rock and play. Is having a great time with his family. He's on vacation. I think he's in Disney World or one of those places. Not sure where he is today, but we're all hoping he's having a great time with the fam. He'll be back with us, as we know, a week from tomorrow. So it's just gonna be me informing you, entertaining you, rolling with you here for a week. So looking forward to getting to chat with you. All the calls, the talkbacks, we love them both. Give us light us up on those lines and send those talk backs. Let's lay out where we're going today on the show real quick. So, you know, some stuff coming out on the FBI and there's a little bit of pushback, I think, from some people on the right. Are Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino moving fast enough? Are they doing the things I was on Fox earlier this morning with Dana Perino, who's always so lovely, like such a nice person and very good broadcaster. And we were talking about this issue. I want to address it a bit because I think that there's a little bit of expectations management that our side should have. Not in terms of result, no, no. We're all agree on the results, but in terms of timing, we need to give the people the time that they need. Speaking of which, Elon has said that his time as a special government employee has come to a conclusion. He put this out on X, the platform that he owns, which now is actually a free speech platform. As my scheduled time as a special government employee comes to an end, I would like to thank President Trump for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. The DOGE mission will only strengthen over time as it becomes a way of life throughout the government. So Elon is going to go back to being the most important single CEO and, you know, business. I don't like the term thought leader. Right. Because it's like thought leader. But I mean, the guy is a thought leader, but I don't like to use that term. But he's going to go back to doing the full Elon routine, which is going to be, I think, great for SpaceX, for Tesla, for X, for boring company, for all the things that he is involved in. So this is where we get into a little bit, speaking of expectations, management of they've done what they could do. He did not unilaterally, and this was known all along, he does not unilaterally have the authority, the power DOGE didn't have to just say these cuts are going into effect, money that Congress has appropriated. If Congress says this, you know, this program for fiscal year 2025 has $10 million or $10 billion. Doge couldn't just come along and say, yeah, they don't have $10 billion anymore. But this is where rescissions come in. This also goes to our conversations over the big beautiful bill. There's been a little bit of pushback here, including from some of the, the most pro Trump voices you will find in the Senate and just in general who are saying, hey, Trump, I love you with all respect. You're doing great things. We all get that. This isn't like some never Trumpy wine fest. You're like, eh, but like, I don't like the way you said it. No, that's for libs. That's for fake Republicans. This is just about, ok, it's halftime. It's not even halftime, to be clear. It's early. It's a timeout in the first quarter, quarter of this administration. And we're all huddled together and some of us are saying, hey, Trump, thank you for being the quarterback. But you know, can you hit that guy on the button hook? Clay would be proud, by the way. I'm just going to say, look at that button hook. But yeah, you know what? I'm saying that that's the mentality or rather that's the, the rationale behind some of the pushback on this from people like Senator Ron Johnson, people like Senator Rand Paul. They're on board for the mission, but they want to shape this. This is why it goes to the Senate. I bring it up because, you know, yesterday I said we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. And I think I'm trying to, some of the administration said it later that day. I'm trying to remember, I don't want to misquote, but somebody, I heard somebody else say it. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. They listen to this show. So I'm happy to, happy to help. Happy to help. And if that means I throw around a cliche that somebody else will have in their head later, great. But we've talked about the process and Stephen Miller, I read his post on the big beautiful bill, still in process. And there's a, there are big things in this bill that will affect us, that will affect your family budget, that will affect the business that you own or that you work for in your town. I mean, there's this real stuff, right? This isn't sitting around arguing about the naming of the next post office in Topeka. No offense, Topeka, but this is about big economic issues, structural issues and setting the economy on a footing that will allow it to get to the best possible places. Right? I mean, tremendous prosperity, which I'm very confident in. You've. I have not been gloom and doom about the Trump economy since he won that election for one moment, for one day, even when, oh, the Trump recession is here. Oh, the market has dropped. You can go back and listen to those shows. We're like, I kept saying, he knows what he's doing. Everyone just who's freaking out needs to, as I believe they would say here in South Florida, tranquilo. Everyone just needs to calm down. It's fine. Ok. Nothing terrible's happened. He knows what he's doing. Part of the complaints about the big beautiful bill, though, have been on where is where where are the cuts? Where is Doge and the ethos of Doge being made real. And this is where you have OMB Director Russell Vaught, who was on the Kudlow show, saying that, yes, in fact, the administration is sending a rescissions package to Congress. Let's hear it from the OMB director himself.
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Stephen Miller
Play 4 I can we'll be sending that up on Monday or Tuesday, whenever the House is back in session. They will get our first rescissions bill. And again, this has been proposed and we've talked about it. We want to make sure that Congress passes its first rescissions bill, including the doge, and we will send more if they pass it. And so this is the first one is foreign aid, USAID cuts, many of the waste and garbage that was funding, not only wasteful, but hurting our foreign policy. But also the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and npr, we'll be sending that up. And we're working with Congress and we've had good conversations to make sure that they knew what was coming. They had some input as to changes that could be made to make it something that could pass the House. And we're excited for that to occur next week.
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Clay Travis
There you have it. I said, hold on a second. Where are the DOGE cuts in the big beautiful bill? And Stephen Miller, who understands this process as well as anybody, because he is, look, he is at the center of what's going on in this White House. He is absolutely dialed in. And he explained it to everybody. And he said, look, this is how it has to happen within the system. And let's be honest, even if you follow government and politics for a living, some of this stuff unless you I'll tell you this, some members of Congress don't even know this stuff that well. Their staff members do. Their staffers do, and they brief them on it, but they're like, wait, I got to do that, though. The. Who's a. What's it here? How does this work? Stephen Miller came out and said, here is what has to happen for the cuts to become real and final or to come to fruition. And now that process has gone to the next step, and now you'll see. Okay, does usaid. Does the budget. Does Congress do what it's supposed to do? Does PBS get its government funding cut? I have, I think, the most perfect argument about this of anybody or, you know, anyone else is welcome to borrow it. I like to make arguments, then other people can borrow them. That's fine. I just want the truth to win. But PBS and anybody else who is getting straight up government funding as a media entity, they cannot claim simultaneously, oh, we don't really need that funding. It's only a small percentage of our budget and, comma. How dare they cut our budget? What are we going to do? This is tyranny. You are not entitled to federal funds as a media entity. This is insane. You know, imagine all of a sudden, I would just say this. Why is PBS getting money from the government? Clay and Buckshoe doesn't get any money from the government. We're a capitalist enterprise. Thanks to all of you who listen and thanks to all of you who. Who make our sponsors so successful in the campaigns we have and the partnerships we have on this show is thanks to you that this show exists. There's no. There's no. There's no. I mean, it would be kind of nice, I don't know, get a check for $10 million for the government. You know, we'd give. We give bonuses for the New York team or something out of that. Right? I mean, this is. This is the kind of thing that you sit there and you say, how has this even been able to exist as long as. As it has? And I want to get into this a little bit more on the Trump fight with Harvard, which I'll dive into in the bottom, which I think. I think this stuff is important. And there's a new addition to this, too, about foreign students from China. What's going on here? You know, were we bringing. Were we bringing the best and the brightest from Moscow to study at Caltech and MIT in, I don't know, nuclear engineering or something? Were we doing that during the Cold War? I'm not aware of it in any real numbers. I mean, there was a lot of espionage going on, but I don't think we were welcoming you Know, tens of thousands of students from Moscow to come work at high levels of sensitive. We're doing that with China. We are. We have been doing. And it's so dumb and so contra the national interest that when you say it out loud, it almost feels like, how is this. How is this possible? And then you can even take it a step further. How many Americans are getting access to the research being done by. I don't know what the top Chinese universities are, but, you know, let's just say the equivalent of University of Beijing. How many Americans are sitting in there classes, learning about 5G, learning about artificial intelligence, learning about next generation of. Of microchips and what they're. I mean, supercomputers, all that. We all know the answer. Even if you don't follow the issue, you know the answer because you'd say, well, China's not that dumb, but we are. Trump comes along. This is one of his superpowers. The dumb things that we have as a country have been doing for such a long time that we just start to think that this is the way it has to be, because seems like it's always been that way. Trump comes along and says, you know, that's a dumb thing and we should stop doing it. Whether it's getting involved in foreign wars that we're not going to win and that aren't bringing any benefit to us or even the people in that country over the long term, or it's something as straightforward as why are we educating at the highest possible levels. Insensitive. They want to study Shakespeare. Okay, I'm a little more open to it, as long as there's no Americans who are losing that spot in that school. Whole other conversation. But the top electrical engineering, top. Microprocessor, top, you know, theoretical physics, astrophysics, we're educating our biggest adversaries, students and by the way, in numbers. That would blow your mind. I actually had a conversation randomly with the guy in the. In the Princeton University electrical engineering labs a long time ago, and he said that if they wanted to. This was a long time ago was back when I was just out of school. He said if they wanted to, they could take three classes or, you know, three times as many students as they have from just China with perfect, perfect scores for engineering, I mean, perfect math scores, everything. He says, you know, they don't take that many. They don't. It's not 100%, but they could because they all want to come and they take a lot of them. And that's true of a lot of these schools. That needs to stop because they operate in America and they have to start seeing themselves as part of this country. They are not islands unto themselves. They do not have global tenure. So if anything, what you're seeing right now is, is Trump putting into action that very important but very straightforward theory. The dumb things that prior administrations have done that there can be no intelligent defense of, whether it is funding pbs. I know they do it because it's left wing propaganda. But there's no real defense of this. Not. Not a serious defense, not an intellectually consistent one. Or spending too much money, fraudulent stuff, sending money to people overseas. The stuff that Doge has found. Dumb. Right. We can all agree. Or training the foreign adversaries, brightest minds in the most sensitive technologies, when the wars and the economies of the future will be determined by technological prowess. Very dumb. And it is, as I said, Trump's superpower, among among several. 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Jack Armstrong
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Clay Travis
He's Joe Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We're Armstrong, Strong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Clay Travis
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Jack Armstrong
We have a winner. Yes, Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Leon Neyfak
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency.
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Jack Armstrong
Did you make a mistake in Sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Clay Travis
No.
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Leon Neyfak
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Buck Sexton
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Leon Neyfak
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today.
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Clay Travis
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do.
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Leon Neyfak
To hear the whole story. Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
We've got some news here that is breaking just today that a judge has blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll federal students. Federal judge in Boston, no surprise just happened today. She plans to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration. This is from Fox. From revoking Harvard certification to host foreign students. What a shock. An appointee of Barack Obama has stepped in. I mean, this is, this is all they've got. Now, just to be clear, the judicial resistance is, is so out of line and so unconstitutional and has gone so rogue because this is all they have right now. They don't really have other. Yeah, I understand. We've got a very small margin in the House. Yes, I understand. You can't trust Republicans too. There are challenges to enacting the Trump agenda in general, but the only way they have to really slam it down and stop it in a day to day sense are these federal judges with these universal injunctions which are, which are absurd. This, this whole thing has gone and you look at the numbers, it's absurd. But on the one hand, I just want to bring to your attention that that's why they don't care anymore. They're in the break the glass phase. They don't care about the danger or the damage done to public faith in the judiciary. They don't care how partisan and how absurd this looks. It's all they've got. Nobody cares what CNN says about anything. Nobody thinks the New York Times is honest. That's gone. Okay? Even the people who like what those places say know they're a bunch of liars. Look at the whole Biden book tour going on right now. But let's talk about why the administration's fight with not just Harvard, but the fight over these universities in general and their policies is important. It's important to this country. I'll explain more in a second. My beloved New York Knicks. I actually do kind of Love, because I used to watch them growing up. They need a win. Tonight it's winner go home. It's a home game. I think that's going to help. But the Pacers are tough. I'll just tell you, they move the ball better. They've got more shooters on the floor at all times. I think their number one offensive option is unfortunately stronger than our New York Knicks number anyway, but I'm hopeful and Prize Picks allows me to get in on the Action Prize Picks app. Once you download it, you can choose more or less on 2 to 6 players projections for your shot to win up to 2000 times your cash. Prizepix is the best way to get action on sports in more than 30 states, including California, Texas and Georgia. 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And they're like, oh, you can be White House communications director, like, it's a different world. So they have brought in people who understand that if you allow the process to get bogged down and if you allow them to weaponize the process essentially to thwart the agenda, you're dead in the water. So you have to just keep going. So that's why, even though this is what I do for a living and I'm every day reading, researching, reading, researching, it's tough to keep up on, oh, wait, what's the latest universal injunction? And what are they. What is this judge saying about Trump or that judge saying about Trump? Because they're not taking the approach that I think was really just more of the Republican way. Oh, we're going to do this thing. Oh, the judge is going to fight us on this. Hmm. Ok. Well, we don't want to seem like we're pushing too hard on stuff. So let's see how this goes. Is, you know, is it going to go to the appeals court? Ok, let's wait. Is the Supreme Court going to hear it? You know, and next thing you know, a year has passed and on this issue, you've allowed them to run out the clock and that's their whole game. So much of what they did, and this was one of my great frustrations with the Russia collusion lie. People always say, oh, it wasn't successful. And I have to correct them, it wasn't totally successful. In the end, I think you can argue it was defeated and shown to be a fraud. But there were costs. You know, we took casualties, so to speak, along the way in the Trump movement because they were able to make people show up for depositions and, you know, testify under oath and get lawyers and the media and you know, and the whole thing was just kicking mud up in the air being, haha, you can't, you can't do what you were elected to do because we're, we're saying, no, we're saying, I don't hear you. La la la la, I don't hear you, I'm a Democrat. You know, whatever childish nonsense they had to do, they did well this time around, the Trump team is going, okay, let's do this. Oh, universal injunction. Cool day, Day two, Next day, let's do this. Oh, universal injunction. Guess what, we got something else. And this is the only way available within the system. We have to continue to play offense. So now what this means is that the, the left and the Democrats are going to be saying, look, oh, he's a dictator and he's a tyrant. Look at all these things he's doing. Because there's a lot going on. But we want there to be a lot going on. We want this movement to be happening on all these different fronts and these processes are playing out. So once again, we all want the same result on this stuff. The people that are trying to do this in this White House, they are pursuing this. I've never seen anything like this before. Most of my life in conservative media has been telling the truth about Democrats when their media outlets have altogether much bigger, you know, ecosystem and have us outgunned, so to speak. I know, you know, the biggest talk radio shows are conservative and yes, Fox is the biggest cable channel. But when you add all those, and remember now we're like the unsinkable aircraft carriers are free speech and the Democrat media is like a little dinghy, you know, beep, beep you know, I don't think they have horns, but you know what I'm saying, maybe boats have horns, right. I'm not a boat guy, but, you know, they're not what they used to be, right? They're, they're, they're ships that they look like the hull is dipping low, close to the water and you know, they're sputtering a little bit. It's not working the way it used to. But one of the big things that I think we had to do on the conservative side of the media was just to deal with the constant incoming. And so we were playing a lot of defense, playing a lot of defense in the Trump term, first Trump term, playing a lot of, with all the, like I said, Russia collusion stuff, right. They tried to make us play a lot of defense on the Biden. Now that didn't work as well as they had, had hoped. But you know, what we see here with Trump is action. Action is its own, is its own strategy. Just keep going, just, you know, motion creates emotion, like make things happen. And that's why I think the stuff you see with the colleges, I know they say you can't do this, they say you can't do that, they say you can't deport. Okay. Trump's team is going to fight that out in court. But while that's happening in every area where the agenda can be pursued by the executive branch, they continue to go and this is excellent. Okay, now let's talk what's going on here with Harvard. You have this, this injunction now from an Obama judge. Obama, I'm going to be honest with you. One of the smartest things, one of the most damaging things about Obama's eight years in office. And I think he did horrific long term damage to the country in a whole range of ways. I think the Obama presidency was a disaster for America that has continued to do harm well beyond his eight years. So many issues, I can't get into them all now. Also, I'll address Michelle Obama now that people are seeing what she actually thinks. I don't think we're going to hear anyone talking about how she should be a presidential candidate anymore. I'll put it that way. Michelle Obama, not a grateful person and not a wise person and doesn't seem like a very nice person either. Not a surprise to some of you. But when she's on these podcasts, she's not, not doing herself any favors with the, with a broader electorate, that's for sure. I mean, I'm sure there are, you know, super fans of Michelle Obama who think everything that she says is brilliant. It's not. And I think that people feel more comfortable just speaking the truth about that now than ever before. But Obama did a lot of damage to the country and Trump is trying to undo that damage. But one of the most lasting points of damage in all of this has been the seating of the federal judiciary with activists. People who just do not care. You know, call it the Sotomayors because she's a, she is really the, the pinnacle example of this. She just knows she's supposed to deliver for her team, team Democrat, team left wing team race and identity politics, you know, team wise Latina. Like she, she knows that she is supposed to make it happen for them in whatever now, she's only one vote of nine. But that's every, every. She never, there's never a moment where you go, wow, Sotomayor is really angering her own side with that. How is that possible? She, she never lets the home team down. The progressive, leftist, communist Democrat is never frustrated with Sotomayor. Now. She, we're aware of this because of her role in the Supreme Court. There are hundreds of Sotomayors in the federal judiciary, hundreds of them because of what Obama and Biden were able to, in Biden's case, the people around him, as we know, but what they were able to accomplish. So this is a major challenge for the administration on the issue of foreign students in this country. I have objections to this on many levels. Not all foreign students. Please don't tell me. Oh, but you know, I, you know, my family, we were so close. You know, we had a foreign exchange student from Singapore and he was lovelier. We had somebody visiting our, you know, was in class at Brigham Young with my son and he was from, you know, wherever. And I know, ok, it's not that we don't want any foreigners here. That, that would be too much. But we also don't want nothing but foreigners in the top echelon of critical industries, critical academic disciplines for our economy and our national defense. And that is happening. We also don't want foreigners, non Americans of, of any kind, to be here in numbers where they get to box out essentially Americans from access to the schools that, as we now all know, are getting billions of dollars of taxpayer money and they really want that money. So they're taking taxpayer dollars, but they're not prioritizing Americans. You know, you start to do this, what percent of Harvard students are foreign? You start to look at these numbers and you say to yourself, 30% of Harvard are foreigners. Do you know that? 30. It's like 27, 28%. We'll just say 30%, because it's basically a third, okay? A third of Harvard are foreign. So this is our most elite university. Blah, blah, all that stuff. I mean, Stanford and Yale people send. Your Clay's on vacation. Send angry emails to him. We're supposed to sit here and say that that's okay. That's insane. That's completely preposterous. The only reason that Harvard can have all these people sitting around with tenure, including. Oh, this is beautiful. Including a professor of honesty, I kid you not, who was just fired from her tenure job at Harvard Business School for dishonesty. It's real. You can look it up. I'm not making it up. And it just happened. Her expertise is whether people are honest or not. And they fired her for being dishonest about her expertise and about the data. They say. One of the highest paid professors at Harvard Business School, I might add. I mean, these are the kind of people that. I remember what this is like. Cause I was in this rat race for a while, remember, until Glenn Beck came along and saved me. I was on my way to Columbia Business School. And I don't mean I was thinking about it. I was in. I was going. And Glenn was like, buck, come work with me. You know, did his Glenn thing. I was like, yes, sir, that is a great. Let's do that thing. The Blaze, early days. Got to work with Pete Hegseth and Will Kane. And I mean, I can't even. I can't even name everybody. I mean, early days, it was just like everybody that you see on Fox now practically came through the Blaze, either as a, you know, somebody who was a guest or whatever. So it was. Those are fun days. Those are fun days. I got a lot of nostalgia about it. My point is merely, I understand this world where people are going through all this stuff there. They'll do anything to shove people out of the way to get into these places so they can study under a professor of honesty who's actually really dishonest at Harvard at heart. What has happened to these places? Do I think that Harvard. I mean, you look at some of these schools, you know, they used to have, like, an ancient, Ancient Greek and Latin requirement. Requirement at some of these. At some of these universities, you look this up. I mean, the core curriculum, you actually had to be smart to go to these places and pass these classes. You know, whether it's, you know, talking about back in, I don't know, the the 50s. I think the 60s ruined everything. Sorry, boomers. I think the 60s ruined, you know, because that's when you seeded the radicals in these schools. And that's. But you go back earlier than that and you had to actually be pretty smart at these places. You had to know my, my college, Amherst, when I went there, and it's only gotten more competitive since then. It's a small school. Those of you in the Northeast know it. The rest of the country doesn't know it. But because it's kind of like an insider. First of all, you can't pronounce the H. It's not Amherst. It's Amherst. Just so you know. And that's always the tell. If somebody says Amherst, it's like, oh, sweetie. Or what do you say in the South? Bless your heart. Oh, bless your heart. The whole thing was they would take. I think they had a 15% admission rate. So 100 people apply, 85 of them get sad letters home. 85 of 100 people get sad letters home. Okay. And, and I think now it's less than that. Harvard's like 1% or 2% or something insane. And there was remedial math and remedial English basically required for a big chunk of students coming in. And I'm sitting, I remember sitting here thinking, like, how, how elite can this place be when you have people who can't, you know, can't math good and, and need help on, on, you know, writing and basic reading? Like, how, how can this be an elite institution? When that's like, well, this is where the left uses these places as credential factories to do social engineering in the broader society. And we all see it. So I have, I want to come back to this issue of the foreigners in schools, though, because this is also a national security thing. I'm passionate about this. I don't think this is a small thing at all. You sit there, you say, how is it that the Biden administration was putting out White House communi. 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Patrick
I, I owned a, an international foreign exchange business where we basically only brought in Chinese aged high school kids or high school Chinese kids. And, you know, listening to a lot of the talk about the international students, I think one of the things that's missed are these kids who are coming in, particularly the kids we dealt with because they were coming here when they were, you know, 13, 14 years old. They get very indoctrinated into American culture. And a lot of the kids who are in college in the United States also matriculated through U.S. high schools. And by the time those kids get to, you know, their late teens, they've been extremely indoctrinated into American culture. And a lot of them don't want to go back to China. And it's not because they're Manchurian candidates and they're.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I know this is a little bit, though. Like, this is a little bit like. But what about the illegals who come in and do good things for me, like with my yard? But, you know, most of them are nice and they. Yeah, this is a broader policy than individuals who come here and like the country. Patrick, I don't mean to cut you off, but we're actually at time. I'll come back and address this a little more. I didn't say no foreign exchange students. And it's not about any one foreign exchange student. We can't have these people studying advanced aerodynamics at MIT and be half of the class and go back to China. I'm not really talking about 11 and 12 year olds, but we'll get back to this in a moment. Made in America means something to us. When you invest 700 billion annually in American companies and the 13 million workers and families they support, you're investing in the success of Main Street. That's money powering growth in manufacturing, tech, energy and innovation. And it starts with private equity backing American ambition. Learn how private equity keeps American businesses growing@investmentcouncil.org paid for by the American Investment Council.
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