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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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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Terry Moran
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you.
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Greg
Please do.
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Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app. How Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Welcome in. We are having a great Wednesday wherever you may be across the country. Encourage you to go download the podcast. Make sure you don't miss a moment. We've got a fun show headed your way. Trump versus abc. We're going to have some fun breaking that down for you. I don't know if you've seen this report yet, Buck, but I definitely love it. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has supposedly told his entire caucus, no more trips to El Salvador. As the Abreu Garcia story has begun to blow up in Democrats faces. More and more details coming out about how crazy that story is. The New York Times has discovered a brand new hot trend that they had no idea was going on. People, Buck, are wearing cross necklaces. And the New York Times has a style section expose diving into this new hot trend which has existed for hundreds of years.
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Greg
And I was going to say some.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Of these people, Christians, good heaven. I just, I think sometimes when I see the stories, like the New York Times had a story recently, I don't know if you saw it, Buck, where it said like Beyonce makes the cowboy hat matter. And I was like, oh, that's really interesting because I've done the cowboy hat being pretty popular for a long time. I don't know that I saw Beyonce as the person who made the cowboy hat relevant. But these are the kinds of things that sometimes you will read if you do as I do. Start your day every morning by seeing what the New York Times has put out there. Okay, we got a bunch of different stories to dive into, but I thought vintage Trump last night as the ABC News hundred Day interview just ricocheted around the Internet. I saw you were sharing parts of it, Buck. I saw it. This is Terry Moran, I believe is his name. I and Trump really kind of had had fun with the fact that nobody really knows who this guy is several different times. But I thought really the one that was the punchiest and echoed the most around the country was when he called out ABC as being a part of the legacy media cabal that refused to cover Joe Biden's senility. Here is cut three. This has gone mega viral.
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Terry Moran
Do you think the reputation of the United States has gone down under your presidency? No, I think it's gone way up. And I think we're a respected country again. We were left at all over the world. We had a president that couldn't. Couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it, and everybody knew it. But you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. All right, thank you. By the way, ABC is one of the worst, I have to be honest with you. Thank you.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Right to his face. I mean, he nailed it. And people say, okay, why is this a story now? Well, we just had the White House correspondents dinner where all of the media are basically trying to self flagellate now and say, oh, how could we have known? How could we have missed a story like this? And Jake Tapper's got a book that's coming out suddenly talking about how awful Biden is.
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Greg
Did you see the audience response on that was do not have that guy on these sacred airwaves. So we got, we got to talk about this. We got to do an awful.
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Hakeem Jeffries
I think we should have him on because the number one thing that actually I think echoes. So I appreciate the fact that people who listen on a regular basis, just.
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Greg
To be clear, you're saying you want to put the brass knuckles on clay. This is shocking. Everybody in the audience. Yes.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Shock. Yeah. Well, look, I think that what I see echoing on a regular basis across the information superhighway, AKA the Internet and on all the social media platforms, is holding people accountable actually matters. And there's a desperate desire for it. And so I think we should have Jake Tapper on and hold him accountable for the lies that he has helped to spread while lecturing everyone about the truth that he is telling. And he's very slippery.
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Greg
He's going to come on, he's going to start dropping some knowledge about some SEC teams. He's going to say, you know, Clay, I, I love your analysis on the Vols. And, you know, I'm telling you, man.
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Hakeem Jeffries
I don't think Tapper knows anything about college football. Your. Your point?
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Greg
Oh, he'll pretend.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Oh, yeah, but I see. But that's worse than just being honest and acknowledging that you don't have any knowledge of a subject.
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Greg
All right?
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Hakeem Jeffries
So I think they need to be hoisted on their proverbial petard. And here's the other thing. It will echo beyond the audience of this show. This, this show is a great platform. We got a big audience. We appreciate all of you who listen every single day. Uh, but I think immensely now about how do you reach beyond the choir? Right. The choir's great. And, you know, if you are in a church, typically choir's gonna show up, they're gonna stand behind the minister, they're gonna support them. They are the, you know, when you're preaching to the choir in the proverbial connotation there. But in order to really change the world or change the nation, you have to reach sometimes outside of the congregation and connect with people who may not know that you are existing on a day to day basis. And what I see, and I'll give him credit, Scott Jennings on cnn, he is connecting, I think, with an audience that otherwise would not be hearing the arguments that are made by a Republican. And he's actually dismantling arguments that are made by the left. And I think that's incredibly valuable. Look, I just came off Harris Faulkner show. I'm on Fox News pretty much every day. You're on Fox News a lot. It's by far the biggest audience out there and it has tremendous impact. But if you are someone who watches MSNBC or cnn, you oftentimes have no idea the arguments that we would make. And everybody out there listening to us because so much of popular culture is steeped in the left, we actually know the arguments that the left makes. I think our arguments are better. And it's why I've come back a bunch of times, Buck, to the debate between Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis that Sean Hannity hosted. And Ron DeSantis obliterated Gavin Newsom. And I think it was because Gavin Newsom is not used to actually being held accountable, because usually he's got interviewers who are lifting him up and parading him as if he is a paragon of virtue, because they are of the left. And he was not prepared for the arguments that he saw from DeSantis, and I frankly don't think that Jake Tapper would be prepared for us. And I think the collision of ideas and arguments is actually what propels itself throughout the larger media ecosystem and gets an out there to change hearts and minds like you going on Bill Maher. Yes. The crowd didn't like you, but I bet there were a couple of people out there who saw your arguments and they were like, hey, this guy, I actually think he might be correct. And they hadn't been exposed to what you would argue. I think that's incredibly valuable. So that's, that's my argument for how you win is going into places where people might not even be aware of the arguments that you would make.
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Greg
Well, after this, he's going to be creeping into your DMs, telling you, let's go. You know, here we have to, we have to have him on. I suppose so. I wonder if it'll be him.
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Hakeem Jeffries
I'll take the, I'll take the blame. Anybody who's angry. Buck is. Buck is not excited about it. I think it's a, I think it's a Donny Brooke we should set up.
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Greg
He likes the Eagles, the football. He's going to, he's going to try to pull the whole football fan thing with you, but. All right, all right, that's fine. That's fine. It looks like we'll get a throwdown going with that. What doesn't work is trying to steamroll Trump in an interview for ABC News. That's for sure. That did not go as planned for this guy. Terry Moran. Did we already play with Trump is like, tells him he's not being. He's not being very nice.
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Hakeem Jeffries
No, we haven't played that yet. I don't trust you. Is that cut seven?
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Greg
Yeah, I think all. Play, play the cuts. He was, he was on fire with this stuff. Play cut seven.
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Terry Moran
Do you think Vladimir Putin wants peace? I think he does, yes. I think, I think even a raining missile. I think he really. His, his, his dream was to take over the whole country. I think because of me, he's not going to do that. Do you trust. I think.
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Greg
Do you trust him?
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Terry Moran
I don't trust you. I don't trust. I don't trust a lot of people. I don't trust you. Look at you. You come in all shooting for Bear. You're so happy to do the interview.
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Clay Travis
I am.
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Terry Moran
You start hitting me with fake questions. He start telling me that a guy whose hand is covered with a tattoo doesn't have the tattoo, you know.
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Greg
All right.
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Terry Moran
I mean, you're being dishonest. No, I'm not.
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Greg
No, I'm not.
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Terry Moran
Do I trust. I don't trust a lot of people, but I do. I think that he. Let's say he respects me, and I believe because of me, he's not going to take over the hole.
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Hakeem Jeffries
And then this turned into the big dispute about the MS.13, which you heard him referencing there, Buck, which is cut one. And I think. Well, just listen, and then we'll explain what we think is going on here. Here's cut 1.
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Terry Moran
Murderous criminals in this country. We have to get them out, and we're doing it. And you'll pick out one man. But even the man that you picked out, he's got a. He said he wasn't a member of a gang. And then they looked, and on his knuckles he had Ms.
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Greg
There's a dispute.
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Terry Moran
Wait a minute, wait a minute. He had MS.13 on his knuckles. We had some tattoos that are interpreted.
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Greg
That way, but let's move on.
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Terry Moran
Wait a minute. Okay, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS.1. It says MS.13. That was photoshopped. So let me. That was Photoshopped, Terry. You can do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you. But that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had ms.13 tattoo.
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Greg
Agree to disagree.
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Terry Moran
I want to move on to something else. Terry, do you want me to show you the picture? I saw the picture. Well, you think it was Photoshop? Well, here we go.
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Clay Travis
Here we go.
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Terry Moran
Don't Photoshop it. Go look at his hand. He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them.
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Greg
I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get to Ukraine.
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Terry Moran
No, no, no, no. He had Ms. As clear as you can be not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe. Well, the news. Because when he was photographed in El Salvador. In. In El Salvador. They aren't there, but let's just go.
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Greg
They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.
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Terry Moran
Oh, they weren't there now, right? No, but they're. They're in your picture, Terry.
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Greg
Ukraine.
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Terry Moran
Sir, he's got MS.13 on his knuckles. All right, okay, we'll take a look. It's. You do such a disservice. We'll take a look. Why don't you just say, yes, he does, and, you know, go on to Something else.
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Hakeem Jeffries
All right, so I think the dispute here, Buck, is Moran is saying, hey, you are. This is ridiculous. But they put the photo out, right? And it shows the tattoos, which are signposts, cultural signposts, according to people who know gangs, to represent Ms. 13. And then above the photo they showed you, hey, this is the. This is what the M stands for. This is what the S. This is what the 13. And you'd correct me if I'm wrong here, Buck, but I think what they're arguing about is actually an interpretation that Trump believes. He's not willing to acknowledge that that stands for MS.13. And then Moran is trying to say, no, you wrote those letters above it, and it's just like one big cluster.
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Greg
Well, also, they're really willing to go to the mat for this guy, aren't?
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Hakeem Jeffries
Yes.
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Greg
Right. I mean, they're now all of a sudden, every. Every coincidence must be given in such. A. Or rather must be accepted in such a way that there's a little more doubt cast on whether this guy, when you look at this guy's record, he's a gang member. Ok. This is. Multiple judges have found that he's a gang member in the past. He's been found in the company of gang members. How many Ms. 13 gang members have you ever been found in the company of Clay? I'll speak for myself. Zero. I have a feeling it's zero for you, too.
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Hakeem Jeffries
So far as I know. I think it's zero.
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Greg
Yes, good point.
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Hakeem Jeffries
I'd be stunned.
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Greg
All of these coincidences are being cited in order to undermine Trump on this issue. And I also would just say this. I don't care. Right. This is the. This guy's not an American. He's gone. He's not a problem anymore. I don't want to hear about it. I mean, I know why they're doing it. I'm not oblivious to the rationale behind this as an assault on Trump. Oh, the rule of law and all this other stuff. But I think that what they fail to recognize is one, the mood of the country about illegal immigration and particularly illegal immigrant gang members. And two, the. We cannot have a system where the law is. Is not enforced and is refused to be enforced when it comes to illegal entry and staying here illegally. But then every legal statute, everything imaginable, has to be given in terms of process to prevent the deportation of individuals. If that's the case, we don't have a country anymore. We're just pretending. And that's really. That's where I am on this. I think a lot of people are on this too. I don't really care. He's not supposed to be here. He's gone. He's not an American. Not our problem.
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Hakeem Jeffries
And we'll come back and talk about this in a little bit. But there is a report that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, it must be polling really, really bad. As we told you it was, hey, go figure. A gangland human trafficking, wife beating non American illegal immigrant in El Salvador and trying to make him the face of unfair deportations has blown up in Democrat party faces such that their House Minority Leader Hake Jeffries is telling people, stop with the El Salvador visits. I would say this was going to poll poorly.
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Greg
Of course I know they'll say this is what about ism. It's not. This is actually about understanding whether there's a principle at work here or not. Did a single one of these Democrats who claim to care so much about due process even raise a question about the solitary confinement and 18 month pretrial imprisonment of nonviolent January 6th defendants who are Americans, not one. So they can cry about this all day. Their tears are falling on deaf ears, no doubt.
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Hakeem Jeffries
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Greg
Mic drops that never sounded so good.
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Hakeem Jeffries
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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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Terry Moran
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
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Hakeem Jeffries
No.
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Terry Moran
No one was let go.
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Buck Sexton
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Terry Moran
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I'm going to ask.
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Buck Sexton
I'm Leon Naifak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast Fiasco 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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Terry Moran
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
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Greg
Please do.
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Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Greg
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. So Trump sat down with ABC's Terry Moran. It was very entertaining. Trump was not in the mood to be trifled with. We are spoiled for how entertaining Donald Trump is in political interviews. It will never, I think, be the same for us in the post Trump presidency era. But let's enjoy it while we have it. And while we have him, here is Donald Trump. This is cut three. He's taking them a task for the Joe Biden dementia cover up. Play it.
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Terry Moran
Do you think the reputation of the United States has gone down under your presidency? No, I think it's gone way up. And I think we're a respected country again. We were left at all over the world, we had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs, couldn't walk down a flight of stairs, couldn't walk across the stage without falling. We had a president that was grossly incompetent. You knew it, I knew it and everybody knew it. But you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news. All right, thank you. By the way, ABC is one of the worst, I have to be honest. Thank you.
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Greg
Yeah. So, anyway, it's so good that I wanted everyone to hear it again. Yeah. I mean, he's just going, going off on them and he's not, he's not playing any games, Clay.
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Hakeem Jeffries
No. And I understand some people have the opinion, oh, why is he doing these interviews? Why does he do contentious interviews? I think it's a little bit of what I said for the reason to have Jake Tapper on because Trump is aware that you can't just do Fox News. You can't just do the Clay and Buck show. Sometimes you have to go into the lion's den and actually confront them face to face and call them out on their lies. Does everybody get it? No. But the success in 2024 suggests that enough people do to move the country.
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Greg
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Hakeem Jeffries
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. All right, I referenced a report that Hakeem Jeffries was telling everybody not to travel to El Salvador. There now is a report that Hakeem Jeffries is denying that he is saying that. So I guess the best way to test it is will be to find out, do Democrat trips to El Salvador continue? I would make the. I would make the argument because I think it's quite clear that there is no benefit at all to making Abreu Garcia the focal point of the anti Trump deportation process. And more details continue to come out. Buck, you were just talking about the Evidence that he is a member of Ms. 13. Over the last 24 hours, a report came out that the ex husband of Abreu Garcia's current wife had filed a circuit court in Prince George's County, Maryland, report saying that he did not want his kids because two, I guess, of the kids that were in that household are fathered by another individual to be around Abreu Garcia because he was a gang banger and involved in El Salvador and gangs. This is back in 2018, he said on the court filing page. I mean, as more evidence continues to come out that, that he knows that she is in danger and that his kids are in danger because this guy is a gang member. Uh, he said, I'm afraid of my kids living in danger because she is dating a gang member. This was before she married this guy. So to your point, Buck, the evidence just continues to pile up of what a bad dude this guy is, oftentimes in official court filings because, remember, later, this woman who would marry Abreu Garcia would file a attempt to get a restraining order because she said that he was beating her up. And there are reports that in Tennessee, my home state, State highway patrol pulled over Abreu Garcia in the car of a known human trafficker. That is the registered vehicle of a known human trafficker with seven other individuals who did not have IDs, and it appeared that he was human trafficking them. So we'll see whether Democrats continue to take a trip to El Salvador. But I think that Hakeem Jeffries has likely seen that this is a very negative story for Democrats, that they picked the wrong front facing opposition figure to this policy and that it is a disaster as well. We talked about this yesterday, Buck, but I do want this to be out there. Southern border totally closed. This was Trump with Moran on ABC News. Cut 5. The biggest accomplishment of the first hundred days of Trump's presidency is we now have a more secure southern border. Maybe in the history of the United States, it has never been this secure. Here is Trump saying it's totally closed down. Cut five.
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Terry Moran
I think maybe the border is the most significant because our country was really going bad. They were allowing people to come in from prisons, as you know. And you've heard me say it, but you've heard a lot of people say it. Prisons, mental institutions, gang members, murderers. We had many murders, 11,888. They think some murdered more than one person. So you had murderers coming in. You had everybody coming in, and not just South America, from all over the world, they were emptying their prisons into our country. And now it's totally closed down. And you've seen just Yesterday they announced 99.9%. Nobody thought that could happen. Then it happened quickly.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Okay, so this is going on and Democrats, in addition to the El Salvador mess, they have decided that they're going to impeach Trump. And I don't know about you, Buck, I don't think we talked about it very much. This guy who tried to impeach him, Shree Thanedar, who is a Michigan Democrat Republic. I didn't think this video was real of him talking about the fact that he was going to try and impeach the President of the United States. I thought it was some sort of Saturday Night Live skit. It is in fact real. And sometimes it's not only that Trump is making the right decisions, it's that he seems to be able to provoke people who disagree with him to behave in such an outlandish fashion that they are basically giving contributions to Trump because he's got the best possible foes.
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Greg
Yes. Well, you can also see that Democrats are recognizing that some of their central lines of attack are not resonating the way that they would have assumed. I think they would. A part of this is the attacks are not within the mood or they're not along the lines of what the American people particularly want to focus on right now. I think beyond that, I also think that the loss of credibility from the largest anti Trump news organizations in, in big part because here's what I think. I somehow think that the COVID stuff is not as damaging to the media's credibility. And I disagree with this perception. But I think this is what has happened. I think the Biden dementia cover up was like the last nail in the coffin for what we formerly call the mainstream media or the msm. The msm, the Democrat aligned corporate media. I think the dementia cover up is actually which is part of why they're trying to fight on this issue now or rewrite it or come up with some way to get past it. Because if you are a person who is able to think for yourself, you would come away saying, ok, if they could lie about that, they can lie about absolutely anything. And I'm not going to take at face value their attacks on this administration anymore. Maybe that's only 5 or 10% of Americans who are in that realm. But you know who, there's like 40% of us are pro Trump like Trump. Right. All the time or pretty much all the time. Five or 10%, I think are with Trump On a lot of things, maybe not with him on everything. And then maybe there's 5 or 10% of people who are truly independents who can swing either way. It's actually, I don't think, I think, I think it's less than that number. But just roughly speaking. And Clay, I think that they are not swayed by the New York Times, the Washington Post the same way anymore. And I think that that's a big change. By the way, they've got this guy, a Vermont judge. Vermont, beautiful state. I used to go to camp in Vermont. I love Vermont. I don't know why it has to have communist politics. Lovely.
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Hakeem Jeffries
It is really a fantastic state. It's a great state. Why have they lost? It's a really good question. How of all the states in America have they lost their way?
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Greg
The, the Bernie Sanders effect. You have a lot of libs from New York who transplanted to Vermont. You know, they, they've had. Their gun laws aren't as good as they used to be. I think they've tightened them up a little bit. But they used to be very pro second Amendment. It's a very low crime state. But a lot of New Yorkers and tri state area people with liberal views have moved to Vermont over the last 30, 40 years. Anyway, it's a beautiful state, but has terrible politics, which is a shame. But there is a judge there, no surprise, who has ordered the release of Mohsen Madawi. This is one of these Columbia University pro Palestinian protest guys. He was here on a green card and he is now in the process, or they're trying to deport him. And he was arrested by federal agents at an immigration center in Vermont. And the ACLU of course, is representing him. And the ACLU doing its absolute best to tear down American society and civilization and burn it all to the ground in the name of selective civil rights, I might add. They don't care about Christian civil rights. Like, there are a lot of people the ACLU doesn't care about at all, but they're good at trying to burn our country down and salt the earth beneath it. But Clay, once again, here's somebody who, when they try to drum, drum up a lot of sympathy for this guy as he's now out. You just go back and look at his role in these protests, which were horrible. And let's remember, not only were these protests threatening people and breaking laws and violating not just campus policy, but criminal code in some instances. I mean, you can't menace people, you can't threaten to hurt people. It happened after October 7th. I mean, this is the response of these lunatics on these campuses after a mass casualty attack that had. We can't even go into how barbaric and awful it is right now. We've talked about it many times on the show. I'm supposed to be sympathetic for this guy. He was lucky he was let into America in the first place. He's got to go. I don't know. I just, maybe I'm too confident that the American people have seen enough now to recognize some of the internal threats that we have because of our immigration policy and the exploitation of it. But I think we're there. I think that people really believe in, generally speaking, what Trump is doing.
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Hakeem Jeffries
The birthright citizenship case that the Supreme Court has agreed to take, I'm on record, I don't think they're going to allow an executive order to change it. But I think the rationale and ruling that they will undertake will be important for how this conversation goes in the future. Because I just, I can't get over the fact that we are allowing illegals to come into the country and then benefit from their legal entry. And usually the, the most basic rule of most aspects of, of our criminal justice system is you aren't allowed to profit off of a crime. And allowing kids of illegals to be citizens is directly allowing someone to profit off of committing a crime. So when you perpetrate a fraud, you shouldn't get the benefit of the fraud going forward. And that is one of the most essential and basic elements of the criminal code. We have to rectify this. We have to have real conversation about birthright citizenship. And it has to stop, has to end. Because I think that would go the furthest to changing the incentive structure as it pertains to people coming to this country illegally. Certainly we need to keep the southern border closed and we need to deport people, violent felons, then eventually others who shouldn't be here. But this is, this is, I think, to the essence of a country. We have to stop this from occurring.
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Greg
I also think that while the dementia cover up is the most egregious that we have seen and that has had the greatest effect on the national perception of our, you know, the large Democrat media organizations. Clay, the story that they told us for four years, roughly that Joe Biden was doing everything he could, it was out of his hands to secure the border. I mean, that was really the narrative. They were lying their faces off about that all across New York Times, Washington Post, cnn, et cetera, et cetera. All of them, they were lying so much about it. And we now know that because we've proven the lie, right? We've tested this out. So this is part of, I think, why they're having such a hard time getting their feet underneath them in opposition to the Trump administration. Because the credibility gap that they have created with people who are not just cult members of a Democrat party. I don't know how they come back from it. I'll be honest. Like, how do they come back from it? They're going to trot out the same people that have lied about that stuff. So anyway, this, this is how I see it playing out. We'll see if, if it continues in this vein. You know, Mother's Day may be a week and a half away, but last weekend sure felt like it. At our house, my mom visited Carrie and me to see her newest grandson, James Speed. Like the Attorney General under Lincoln, I cannot think of a better clay. I got a Civil War era name, by the way. That's where you must be. This must be high five for me.
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Hakeem Jeffries
That is actually very, very impressive. Although I would point out that this, this is actually an interesting angle. Do you see where the argument is that we should do away with the writ of habeas corpus like Lincoln did during the Civil War in order to kick everybody out of the country?
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Greg
I have seen that, yes.
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Hakeem Jeffries
It's an interesting argument from his attorney General.
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Greg
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Hakeem Jeffries
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Clay Travis
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- [36:43]
Buck Sexton
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.
- [36:52]
Terry Moran
Did you make a mistake in sending arms to Tehran, sir?
- [36:55]
Hakeem Jeffries
No.
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Buck Sexton
It became known as the Iran Contra affair.
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Terry Moran
And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second I'm going to ask.
- [37:05]
Buck Sexton
I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco 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.
- [37:23]
Terry Moran
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane I can't begin to tell you.
- [37:29]
Greg
Please do.
- [37:35]
Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story. Listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
- [37:43]
Greg
Or welcome back into Clay and Buck. I've got some interesting stuff to talk to you about coming up here in the next hour. But we've also got the Trump cabinet meeting which is going underway still. It is really going for quite a bit. We will dive into some of that and then Clay, this is some analysis I want to share. I don't know if you saw this. I like it when I can just lay it out and we'll have a real time reaction. Clay, did you see the analysis of S&P 500 companies mentioning D I. I saw in any of their public filings.
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Hakeem Jeffries
I didn't. I just saw it flash by like for a sec. So I did not dive into the article.
- [38:20]
Greg
We will, you know, we like we make these arguments to you because we're people who are. We're observers and analysts. Right. That's central to our job. Inform, entertain. But observers and analysts, another way of doing what we do here. And whenever we can use data, it's nice because it backs up the perception that we have what we're picking up out there in the, in the ether. And sure enough, the data is DEI is in retreat in a big way in corporate America. So we will discuss that and we'll also get into some of the cabinet meeting that's has been underway. Elon looks like he's. Well, he was always going to leave end of May. Right. So I think Elon's wrapping up his time at Doge, but he's been at the meeting today. We'll bring you some of the highlights from that. And when it comes to highlights, Crockett Coffee would be a highlight of anyone's day if you try it. You might have seen the photo. We are now in the Alamo gift shop, which is very cool. So we are. They're selling Crockett Coffee at the actual Alamo now. And appreciate so much all of you who are subscribers who are helping us build this out. Remember, you can get a signed copy of Clay's American Playbook if you go book. Also, 10% of the profits goes to Tunnel the Towers Foundation. Try that mushroom coffee. It's delicious. If you haven't had it, half the caffeine and normal coffee. Great afternoon. Pick me up. Go to crockettcoffee.com Please get your first order going. And we would love it if you would subscribe. And now producer Greg just sent me something. Did you know that Vermont was originally called New Connecticut? And I will tell you, even as somebody who lived adjacent to New England, I did not know that. Were you aware of that?
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Hakeem Jeffries
No, I had no idea. I haven't spent that much time in New England. Right. I mean, I've been to New York City quite a lot. But for anybody who has spent time in New York City, it's not really very similar to the rest of the state. Certainly not Upper New York. And no, I haven't. I have very limited knowledge. Here's a good question for you, Buck. As a person who grew up in the northeast, and I always think this is interesting, if the country had been settled west to east, would anyone live in the Northeast?
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Greg
Whoa, whoa, settle down, settle down.
- [40:29]
Hakeem Jeffries
Now, you could make an argument.
- [40:30]
Greg
Some people like seasons, Clay. Some people like seasons.
- [40:33]
Hakeem Jeffries
You can make an argument that people would have never left the west coast because they'd have been like, it's perfect here. It's like the Garden of Eden and much of it. But I would submit to you that if we had settled the country west to east, the least populated place in the entire United States would actually be the Northeast.
- [40:50]
Greg
I'm throwing a challenge flag on this right away.
- [40:53]
Clay Travis
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- [41:23]
Buck Sexton
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.
- [41:35]
Terry Moran
The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you.
- [41:40]
Greg
Please do.
- [41:45]
Buck Sexton
To hear the whole story, listen to Fiasco Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.