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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
We try to bring you the truth.
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Joe Getty
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Jack Armstrong
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Joe Getty
We have a winner.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
On the iHeartRadio Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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Jack Armstrong
Welcome, everybody, to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. On this lovely Wednesday, all across the land, a lot of news to talk about. Trump's biggest golden dome. The biggest, beautifulest, most golden dome. Talked about it yesterday, got into some really interesting stuff about the future of warfare. AI technology integrated into a global. A global battlefield. It's so much stuff to dive into on that. And we'll update you on some of the key moments from it. And our friend, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was there as well as long, as well as the leader of Space Force. Space Force, getting their moment in the sun, if you will. Something that Trump came up with as an idea looks pretty prescient in retrospect, doesn't it? At the time, I remember there was snickering. There was, oh, Space Force. Was it gonna be like Star Trek? No, actually, it's really important, as Elon Musk and SpaceX are the preeminent satellite launch company, slash nation state in the world. And something like Clay, I think 80% of the satellites in orbit are SpaceX launched at this point. So the world is. The world of space is changing so rapidly and it affects us. So this is no longer just about, oh, maybe we can do a cool thing and, and get, you know, figure out something the first time we did this or. No, no, this is affecting telecommunications for all of us. It's affecting targeting on the battlefield. It's a. There's a huge world of stuff that we've been thinking is coming for a long time. It is here imminently. And so we'll talk a bit about that. Obviously, the Golden Dome stuff is big. Clay's also going to update us on this, right? It was a state assembly woman in Maine. What's the.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, it's crazy that the Supreme Court of the United States had to weigh in to get Laurel Libby, who is in Maine. And I know we have a lot of people listening in Maine to get her able to vote again because they basically stripped her of all representative rights because she spoke out against a boy winning a girl's championship in the state of Maine. And so I just, I, we've had her on the show before and we may have her on the show again. But I just the world that we have entered where the Supreme Court of the United States has to get involved because Democrats don't want anyone to speak out against men and women's sports and in fact, will not allow them to be representing their district. I, I buck this thing off the crazy train. Democrats are on a crazy train going so fast that I can't even believe some of the places we end up.
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Jack Armstrong
I know we have to keep playing whack a mole with this, too. I wish that we could say this argument is done and over with. We won. But they won't stop. So we can't stop because if we do, we cede ground to them in their crazy. Anyway, Clay will bring us into that. I think it's a really interesting conversation. More from Tom Holman on the border. But so look, let's take a moment here, okay. We had had this exchange here, Clay and I and all of you and a lot of you weighed in about this book, that original sin, this book that has come out, which I stand behind. I do not advise. You know, you can read some of the excerpts if you want, online and you'll get the idea. I don't think that you learned very much. The, the specifics of the details might be somewhat lurid, but we already knew all of this. So this would only be news to people so foolish that they believed the Democrat media when they said Biden didn't have dementia. This would only be a situation of, oh my gosh, revelation for people who were completely hoodwinked by this con. And we were not, as we know from year, and neither were any of you. Because if you chose right, Claire, if you choose to listen to this show, it means you are independent thinking enough and wise enough to see through the bullcrap that places like CNN and the Washington Post were peddling, right? So we're already, you know, we're sitting here like we already knew, okay? But we had talked about whether we would have Jake Tapper on to talk about his book. I can tell you that Jake Tapper is a guy who in, in earlier years when CNN was feeling robust, he was a behind the scenes, a very nasty guy with very sharp elbows and very underhanded in his dealings with people in media, in my opinion. And I could give lots of details about it. And now all of a sudden he's coming out like a whipped dog. Like now all of a sudden it's. Well, you know, I guess maybe I was wrong. Okay, so do we have him on or not? That was the question. Well, now I think it's kind of moot because he went on Megyn Kelly show. And full credit to Megyn, who is, is a great interviewer and, and is, you know, is fearless. Um, she and Jake are friends and she's open about that. They're friends. He went on her show. I thought, come on, there's no way she's going to really hold him to account now. Would he have gotten rougher stuff Clay, if he had come, come on this show first?
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Joe Getty
Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
But did she fulfill the necessary role here of not letting him get away with lies and nonsense and asking the tough questions? Yes, she did. Yeah, she did. I mean, I think on this show it would have just been like. It would have been hard for me not to start swearing, honestly. But here we go. Let's start with some of this. Let's work through some of this together. This is one of the better moments. This is from Megan's interview with Tapper. And then you say, well, Buck, why are we talking about this? Because we're still in the early stages of the Democrats finally admitting what we were saying all along. And it's the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. I don't know what could be bigger than this. And it's the biggest media scandal of our lifetime for sure. This is cut to Megyn Kelly show with Tapper.
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Megyn Kelly
Play it over here in my ecosphere. We were covering all of these. It wasn't just falling down, it was getting lost. It was some of the stuff you report in your book. We knew and we were reporting on like the multi jump cuts in the videos of him where it was obvious he couldn't get through a one minute take. It was clear to us that he was using teleprompter in and there was some reporting on that at the time. All of which the White House was denying. Now the current White House. I have some connections with the Joe Biden White House. I had none. But you did. There was an attempted cover up. It could only ever work if you allowed it, if the press allowed it. Some of us tried not to and some of us were complicit.
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Jake Tapper
The Biden White House did not like me. Okay, this is, I do not have great connections with the Biden White House.
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Megyn Kelly
Well, clearly sources say you Talked to over 200 sources for this book after the election. Could have called and worked.
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Jake Tapper
No, that's the point is that they were not being honest.
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Joe Getty
That's. Let's play a couple of these because I think what she said is important. He says I didn't have great contacts in the Biden White House.
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Jack Armstrong
Well, that's a lie.
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Joe Getty
And also totally. But he brags about interviewing 200 people for a tell all book. So you have to have some connections to be able to get them to talk to you. This also is great. And she goes off on him and says one of us didn't miss the biggest story of the century and in presidential politics. Cut 3.
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Megyn Kelly
How did the Wall Street Journal get it in June of 2024 and Jake Tapper and CNN couldn't find sources for this story. Then before he dropped out, Annie Lynske.
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Jake Tapper
And Siobhan Hughes did an amazing job in their reporting. And, and they should be heralded. And I heralded them. I had them on my show right after the debate to talk about the great reporting.
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Megyn Kelly
But you did not put them on when they published that story, which was before the debate.
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Jake Tapper
Correct. I don't know what the booking situation was, but it wasn't because I didn't want them. I'm sure I let's, I'm sure I said that day let's book that. Did they?
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Megyn Kelly
Yeah. You put on a Democrat and you allowed the Democrat to rip out the report as a Rupert Murdoch sponsored hit piece.
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Jake Tapper
No, no, no.
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Megyn Kelly
It's just Megan, that's going to do.
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Jake Tapper
If we're going to, if we're going to do this. Let's just stick to the facts here, okay. When there is a damaging report.
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Megyn Kelly
That's what I've been doing all along.
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Jake Tapper
I'm talking about what you just said.
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Megyn Kelly
The biggest story of the century when it comes to presidential politics.
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Joe Getty
And one of us did I give her credit. This is what I wanted us to do if we had Jake on. Instead, Megan did it. So one more because I do think this matters. Buck, I will give Jake Tapper some small measure of, of credit here. He says he apologized to Laura Trump. We talked about this on the show because he ripped her and said oh, you're mocking his stutter. And, and, and derided the idea that she could argue wasn't mentally or physically.
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Jack Armstrong
A horrible thing to say. Yes, a horrible thing to say. I mean to say what a kids with. We will play the full clip. I mean it was, it was gutter stuff that he pulled with Lara Trump, who, you know, you know her, Clay. I know her. Is a lovely person. Okay. Is like, you know, you'd want, you'd want to leave your kids with her at the barbecue, you know, for, for the day, and know that they'd have a great time. Like, she's a lovely person.
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Joe Getty
Well, and what it's representative of is I've seen less of this, but I was concerned on Sunday when you say, hey, I don't believe Joe Biden when he says he found out he had cancer on Friday. That doesn't mean that you want somebody to be unsuccessful in their fight against cancer. Right. And so when you criticize Joe Biden, what they tried to say was, oh, well, that's. You're being unfair. You're going after him because of a stutter, which is designed to limit any criticism by directly attacking you. That is a clear attempt that they made to try to protect Biden by attacking anybody, raising it as an issue.
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Jack Armstrong
Pure propaganda, which nobody believed. And here's why they. Clay, no person would think, first of all, if you're making fun of a stutter, you would make fun of a stutter. And nobody in public life would think that making fun of a stutter is, is something that you should do, because people would say, that's cruel. That's a jerk move.
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Joe Getty
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Talking about a president having dementia who has the nuclear codes is fair game.
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Joe Getty
And by the way, this is just a natural outgrowth of anything we don't like is racist. Anything we don't like is sexist. They don't actually address the arguments. As soon as you go to a personal attack, that is a sign that you have lost the argument. But to Jake Tapper's minimal credit, here he is, he says he has apologized to Lara Trump.
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Megyn Kelly
Cut 4 you4 covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years, and you didn't cover mental acuity? Hardly at all. I mean, time and time again, when issues came up, you seem to be running cover for the president.
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Jake Tapper
I don't, I don't think.
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Megyn Kelly
Well, I mean, we'll start with the Lara Trump issue that you referred. Do you want to apologize to Lara Trump now?
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Jake Tapper
I've already apologized to her. I called her months ago.
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Megyn Kelly
And what does she say?
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Jake Tapper
I mean, I don't want to disclose the, the contents of a private conversation, but I thought the conversation went well. And she said she has said this publicly, so I feel fine sharing it. She said that she would never mock anybody's stutter But, I mean, you know, after we did the research for this book, and I realized how bad his acuity issues were, I, like. I mean, I. I called Lara Trump and I. I said, you were. You were right.
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Megyn Kelly
She was totally right.
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Jack Armstrong
I just got a lie. I just got to keep repeating it. Clay, this was not a mistake. It was an op. Just for everything you hear from these Democrats about this, it was not a mistake. It was an op. Just have that running through your head. They knew what they were doing. They knew all along. And we knew all along, and we knew that they knew that we knew. And yet the game just kept on playing out like this. Which is why. I mean, here's the thing, Clay. I correctly. Not to relitigate this. I correctly identified the ruthlessness and the lying nature of the Democrat Party with regard to Biden in 2024. The only wrinkle in my whole. The only wrinkle in my whole thesis all along, stretching back for years. The debate. That was the whole. That was when. If they had gotten through that debate, Biden was the candidate. Everybody should remember that he had cancer. They knew they hit it, and they knew he had dementia, and they were hiding that all along.
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Joe Getty
And they would have never told these stories if he had won the election. That's the other thing about this.
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Jack Armstrong
The whole game was they have the cancer out. They talk about his cancer. He steps down for that, not dementia. And no one asks any questions. And Kamala starts giving speeches about being the first black woman president.
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Joe Getty
Totally. And the only reason now that this book is coming out is because Jake Tapper has no benefit whatsoever from having to play Democrat propagandist so he can effectively bury Biden's political legacy, and to a large extent, Kamala's, too. Because I think the conversation is going to shift to what Kamala, you argued for years that Biden was okay. I think this is going to sabotage any future that Kamala has.
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Jack Armstrong
They've taken her down. This takes her down, too. This. This is what I felt along. She's. I told you. Remember this? I told all of you. She's going to end up provost at some UC school, you know, and they're just going to. She's going to be kind of sent. Sent to the archives, as we used to say in the CIA. Sent to the archives.
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Joe Getty
I think this is going to be tough, honestly, for anybody that was in the Biden cabinet when they try to run in 28, maybe not in the Democrat primary. Although I'm curious for the outsiders who weren't in the Biden camp, whether they can attack this and whether it has residents, but certainly in the general election, can you imagine J.D. vance running against Mayor Pete or somebody like that and saying, dude, you lied to us for four years about Biden's mental acuity. Why can we trust you on anything? I think that will register really well with independent voters. You know what else registers well? Buck's nervousness. You might even be able to hear it during the course of today's show. Long suffering New York Knicks fan with a big game tonight against the Indiana Pacers. We got the NHL playoffs underway and if you're in Oklahoma City or you're in the Minneapolis area, that game's going on. Final Four, NHL, Final Four of the NBA, also Major League Baseball. All of it going on right now. Make sure that you've got prize picks downloaded because you can get hooked up. All you have to do is pick more or less for your favorite athletes. Tennis as well golf. Whatever you are into, you can play in Texas, California and Georgia. It's fabulous. Best way to get action on sports in more than 30 states including, like I said, California, Texas, Georgia Withdrawals Fast, safe and secure. Some can hit your account as little as 15 minutes. Download the app today. Use my name Clay as the code for $50 instantly after you play your first $5. That's code CLAY for $50 instantly after you play YOUR first $5. Price picks run your game code Clay.
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Megyn Kelly
Listen, first and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.
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Jake Tapper
You have no. That's so amazing. It's so amazing to me that.
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Megyn Kelly
And try and figure out an answer.
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Jake Tapper
A cognitive decline.
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Megyn Kelly
You're trying to tell me that what I was suggesting was I think you.
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Jake Tapper
Were mocking his stutter. I think you were mocking his stutter. And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline. I would think that somebody in the Trump family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar.
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Joe Getty
Okay, so Tapper is now apologized for that, but he now, hold on, hold.
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Jack Armstrong
On, hold on, hold on. Just. This is important, Clay, because I know this guy, okay? I've known him a long time. I used to work at cnn. That is Jake Tapper. When he thinks he can get away with it, that's actually Jake Tapper. So all this other stuff you're seeing with Megan where he's like, oh, I missed it. Jake Tapper is. I will hit you as a person on TV with a lie to hurt your reputation if I can get away with it. That's actually who he is.
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Joe Getty
Yes. And also he now says, oh, Biden would have never got elected if it weren't for Covid or people like you attacking anyone who attacked Lar Trump and that argument.
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Megyn Kelly
Foreign.
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Jack Armstrong
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. It is kind of fun to watch these Democrats come forward and just completely send up, mock and, and go after their own. I mean, whether they were a part of it or whether they weren't or they just were kind of on the sidelines, it is, it is a remarkable intramural squabble that is going on right, right now. And it's not only does that do I think Clay the Democr does not have a political leader right now and it does not. And that's the first time in my adult lifetime where we've gone through, we went through really, you know, the Clinton era and we went through the Obama era and then, you know, there have been some other people that have popped up here and there for a hot second. Maybe it was going to be John Kerry. Isn't that astonishing? Maybe it was going to be John Edwards. Remember everybody, when John Edwards during the campaign cheated on his wife, she was in remission from her fatal cancer, as he said on television. Do you remember that interview? That was one of the, he wanted everyone to be very clear. My wife, that I cheated on during the campaign and had a love child, she was in remission when the cheating happened.
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Joe Getty
So this is one of those points where I, you know, like a lot of these guys, I think end up, as you well know, Buck, surrounded by advisors that are not very smart and don't actually give them good advice. This is where you need a common sense advisor. And when he was saying, hey, I'm going to admit that I cheated on my wife, you're like, okay, well that's going to be tough. That's probably not going to play that, play that well in the, in the general electorate. And then he says, but I think it's important that everybody understand that she was in remission from her cancer at the time that I cheated on her. So she wasn't actually getting chemotherapy. First of all, I doubt that that's true. Second, the, the argument that you're going to make there, somebody who's like the director of common sense has to flow, throw a flag and just say, I think you need to own the whole cheating thing. And just say like, yeah, I was a jerk. I'm a.
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Jack Armstrong
And don't try to go into the mitigation of my wife's, my wife's actually tragically fatal cancer was in remission during that little period of the cheating anyway. But John Edwards was a, was a, an incredible scumbag. If you actually looked into his background, you're noticing a trend. We're about to get into this, by the way. In fact, guys get cut cut five ready. I want to go to that before we get into Democrats get cut five ready. But before I say this, you'll notice a lot of these Democrats just really bad people. I don't know, I don't know how else to say it. You know, and there's some, you know, you could argue, oh well, you know, the Clintons are smart, but they're obviously horrible people, both of them. Not good people, not ethical, not decent at all, at all. I could go, we could do a whole show just on how gross they are. But also John Edwards, not ethical, not a good person. He was so adept as a ambulance chasing trial lawyer at suing obstetricians in the state of South Carolina, Clay, that it became functionally impossible for a lot of women. And this particularly ticks me off as somebody who just had to go to the ultrasounds with my wife and you know, here in South Florida we had very good care. What if I had to drive or fly to go get the ultrasound done because nobody could afford insurance in my state because of the slimy trial lawyer that was John Edwards in his era in South Carolina. John Edwards in South Carolina used to, in summations for juries, he would, he would talk about like he would say that he was speaking on behalf of somebody's like, you know, dead child or something. Like he was summoning their spirit. I mean, a total snake oil salesman. And he was close to being the Democrat, the Democrat, you know, President of the United States.
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Joe Getty
And by the way, may have been a better choice than John Kerry even with all of those things being said.
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Jack Armstrong
Possibly yes, possibly, possibly no. I mean, John Kerry, I mean the guys best thing John Kerry ever did was figure out how to marry women twice who had a lot of money made by other men. I mean that's the truth about John Kerry. So it's not an accident when you do it twice.
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Joe Getty
Yeah, that's a. That's a really good point. I mean, he married a billionaire heiress for Heinz. That mean.
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Jack Armstrong
That was like after marrying another really wealthy woman.
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Joe Getty
I didn't even know the first.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. John Kerry. Yeah, he does. When it comes to marrying wealthy, wealthy divorcees or widows, John Kerry don't miss. He's. He knew exactly what he wanted anyway. Oh, yeah. Wrecked in a manner of Genghis Khan, you know, speaking in front of the stand. That guy was a jerk. I bring it up because they're jerks. And here's the thing, Clay. You and I, we sat here, we talked. I mean, the Biden family, I really believe this. I think Bill and Hillary probably sat around at some point, and Bill was like, I mean, those people are sketchy. Those. Those Bidens are dirtbags.
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Joe Getty
I mean, I don't even know. That's a really good Bill Clinton. You haven't done your Bill Clinton much on the show.
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Jack Armstrong
Your boys got. Your boys got game over here, Clay. You know what I mean? Like, I just like to keep you on your toes. I think the Clintons thought that the Bidens were scummy, which is a whole other. And Jake Tapper here from the interview with Megan, I want. Oh, no, this is a different interview. Sorry.
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Joe Getty
This is with Katie Couric.
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Jack Armstrong
I don't want to be mean. I don't want to be mean, but maybe I kind of do. Did you know that she was still doing anything?
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Joe Getty
I did not know that she was still doing anything. Also may have had a little bit of a crush on her back in the Today show days. She was cute.
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Jack Armstrong
What?
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Joe Getty
Oh, yeah, yeah. Katie Couric was cute back in the day, Clay.
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Jack Armstrong
Good heavens. I don't know.
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Joe Getty
What, you didn't think she was cute? When in like 1980, 1993?
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Jack Armstrong
No, I disagree you that. That the Today show propaganda seeped into your brain and she's.
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Joe Getty
I mean, it's not like she was York.
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Jack Armstrong
She was a New York City 6.
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Joe Getty
I put Katie Couric.
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Jack Armstrong
That's driving her. That might be a little rough.
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Joe Getty
I might be a little listening to W O R. No idea what she's, you know, she's just chilling. Find out we had no idea she was still doing media. And then Buck calls her a New York City six after I say that she's good looking in 1993.
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Jack Armstrong
You get me fired up because I.
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Joe Getty
Remember all these people in the media. I was watching SportsCenter with Olbermann and and Dan Patrick Oberman was crazy also. What's Olbermann like a New York City 4 on his A3. Olbermann is a crazy man now. Like he even looks like he's in a straight jacket when he makes that's a good example of a guy he.
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Jack Armstrong
Is looking more and more like Rosie o' Donnell if you actually put them side by side. True story.
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Joe Getty
Rosie O' Donnell and Olbermann are becoming like a 68 year old lesbian woman and the same person like that keep over not a good look, not a good look for a man to be told hey, you kind of have you're a doppelganger for a 68 year old lesbian. I think I would retire somebody said that about me.
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Jack Armstrong
No shock. Rosie apparently doesn't like lesbian doesn't like living in Ireland as much as she thought she would when she fled. She's give her at least the give her the credit for Trump wins and she actually fled the country.
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Joe Getty
I do give a small measure of credence if you say I'm going to leave the country if, if, if a candidate wins and stay. It's hard for me to respect your political opinion. I still don't respect it much. But at least you stood behind it and moved to Ireland.
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Jack Armstrong
So, so back to our thesis of Democrats, our Democrat leadership are scumbags. And truly in a way I will say this, I think on a, well, you know, I think the Biden, I think the Bidens make the Clintons look JV when it comes to scumminess. I think that's if you take the totality of all of them. Right. I think Bill as an individual worse than any of the Bidens. But if you add the whole Biden family like I don't, I don't think, you know, Chelsea has been involved in anything sketchy. You know, she's married.
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Joe Getty
I also think Bill and Hillary Clinton are especially Bill, but Hillary too are a different intellectual caliber than Joe and Jill. Right?
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Jack Armstrong
No, no question that, that, that is true. There, there's like there's a 15 to 20 gap between the Clintons and the Bidens. And I would argue by the way, I think the Obamas, both of the Obamas are substantially smarter than both of the Bidens.
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Joe Getty
I think that's quite clear. I know for sure, I'm not sure about Michelle. Barack is way smarter than Joe Biden was.
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Jack Armstrong
But I do think, you know, Trump was calling them the Biden crime family for years. Ok. For years. And the media pretended like this was just going in one ear and out the other. The President's son was the point man and the bag man for an international bribery ring. Okay? That's what was going on. And people go, oh, but what about Trump and the emoluments clause? Trump's already a billionaire. These people are idiots. No one's buying Trump off because they're, you know, if someone in some country didn't approve his building, he'd build a building somewhere else. And he doesn't even need the money. The whole thing is absurd. And yet Jake Tapper, finally, after years of Trump saying the Biden crime family. I think Jake Tapper should have to call them the Biden crime family. This is cut 5 from the apparently still doing interviews Katie Couric interview. Play it. How big a factor was the Hunter stuff?
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Jake Tapper
I think it was considerable. I think Hunter was driving the decision making for the family in a way that people. He was almost like a chief of staff of the family.
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Alan Dershowitz
Does that strike you as pretty bizarre?
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Jake Tapper
It's bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions.
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Jack Armstrong
Tell me how you really feel.
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Jake Tapper
Well, I mean, I just look at the record. I mean, after his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother's widow and then got her addicted to crack. That's just one thing I could say. I mean, I don't have a lot of personal regard for him and the idea of letting him drive the family car, as it were, is just really, really questionable.
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Joe Getty
So everything that he said about Hunter Biden we've been saying for years on this program. And they show up and act as if this is a major uncovered aspect. Here's something I want you to think about as we go to Breakbuck. And this is also true for all of you out there. Are there people who are hearing what Jake Tapper is saying and in disbelief that all of this happened? I mean this honestly, like pretend that you are super busy in your day to day life and you trust the New York Times to keep you updated. You trust msnbc. You flip it on when you have breakfast because you have been a card carrying left wing Democrat for some time. You put on Jake Tapper. Are any of those people having moments of in just sort of, what's the word that I'm thinking of here? Are they, are they wondering how in the world did all of this happen and I didn't know? And oh, by the way, there are lots of other people, for instance, everyone listening to this program who knew all of this for years. In other words, are they having that moment of realization? Are there millions of people out there who are suddenly picking up the wall, the, the, the Washington Post? We'll talk about their editorial or reading this Jake Tapper book and they're like, wow. And do they have the next step of boy, I was lied to. I wonder why. All those people that I look down on, the Trump voter driving a truck, the Trump voter who's working in a grocery store aisle right now stocking, while they're listening to us on their break, the person who is out there at Walmart or a gas station, good, normal, decent, regular people who knew all of this, do those people who think of themselves as so much smarter than everyone else, do they have a moment of self reflection and realization? In all honesty, imagine MSNBC viewing New York Times, reading, you're busy in life. Do you reconsider who you use and who you trust to keep you informed? Only 23% of people are still getting Covid shots. Do the other 77% of people say, hey, you know, maybe those people who were skeptical of the COVID shot, do they have that moment of realization? How are they thinking today? What are they thinking as all of this is coming out? I do wonder, I do try to put myself in their shoes and think, what if I was just a super busy moron and I had trusted all these legacy media outlets? Do I distrust them now?
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Jack Armstrong
Can I put out a call on this? Actually, I'm just wondering. Yeah, because we have some Democrats who listen and I'm just, you know, and maybe the other Democrats, because they, they, they're, you know, ardently pro choice or there's some issue that makes them. But I'm just curious to any of our Democrats listening, did you know all along that they were lying to you? And you know, but you still vote the way that you do. If we can get a call or an email on that. I know it's kind of specific, but I'm curious, like, do the people watching Jake on CNN at night when he was doing it, they like, no, I get it. I mean, he's got to do this because anything to stop Trump, you know, was that, was that really what the audience was thinking? I don't know if any of you listening have that. I'm curious.
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Joe Getty
And by the way, if you have changed your viewing or listening habits, I bet there's some of you who came in, I know, starting in Covid, we've been doing this for four years. How did you find us? Some of you have been listening to rush since 1993 or you know, you've been here for 30 some odd years. But those of you who are newer, maybe you used to watch CNN all the time, maybe you used to watch the msnbc, you subscribe to the New York Times, Washington Post, I mean I read everything that they put out there. I knew that they were wrong on all of this. But to suddenly for them to argue, hey yeah, we missed this. It's actually indefensible for what they do, but it's also an insult to the audience because they led all of you astray. Have some of you come over. I'm just curious. Grocery bills. What's going to happen in the weeks ahead for American families? We don't know. But we do know that one of the ways you can protect yourself from having to worry about increased grocery bills and all the preservatives and all the seed oils and everything else is by buying real American food from real American products. Real American meat at prices you can count on when you subscribe. Good ranchers giving you free meat for life. Ground beef, wild caught salmon, chicken nuggets, bacon. You pick, you get $300 of free meat year after year just for signing up right now. And good Ranchers all about supporting American jobs, American farmers, American values. Each cut, pre trim, vacuum sealed freezer ready for up to a year. Ben and his wife have four young kids. Fabulous business they have created because they care about getting the best possible protein foods into their family. They're eating this every day. Buck and I eat it with our families. It's fabulous. Tariff proof your meals with good old fashioned American products produced here by American ranchers. At Good ranchers go to good ranchers.com use my name Clay to unlock your free meat for life. Plus you get 40 bucks off that first order. That's goodranchers.com my name Clay. Do what we do. Feed your family the best possible produce right to the house. Goodranchers.com My name Clay. 40 bucks off and free meat for life.
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Alan Dershowitz
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
But what do you do if you have years of missing returns or you already owe back taxes? Every day you put it off. The likelihood of the IRS seizing your assets, garnishing your paycheck and going after you and your business if you owe payroll taxes increases, they might even revoke your passport.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
You know you're the Last Samurai, the movie the Last Samurai. He may be the last like you know, civil, civil rights advocate like he may be the last Guy who believes in, like, civil rights regardless of the defendant's politics or anything else, you know.
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Joe Getty
Which is what you actually should want lawyers to be is committed to principle over profit it. And we're going to talk with Alan Dershowitz. But you and I want to talk with Alan Dershowitz, among other things, about the Diddy trial that's currently underway.
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Jack Armstrong
I think people might be heading for a big shot. I mean, look, I'm not super close. I don't do true crime stuff in that much detail or I don't follow it that closely. But I do know kind of how some of these things can go. And I. I'm not nearly as convinced, I'll tell you this, Clay. I'm not nearly as convinced as, I think a lot of people that Diddy is, legally speaking, finished. I think professionally and socially, he's a pariah forever now. But I'm not sure that he's actually going away on the stuff they've. They've brought against him.
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Joe Getty
We'll talk about that with Dershowitz and more. We'll come back. This crazy Supreme Court ruling that they had to make in order for a main house representative to be able to speak out. I'm going to fill you in on just how wild this is. And also we want you crockettcoffee.com brand new awesome mugs. Buck is holding his up right now for the camera. They're super cool. I wanted oversized mugs. We made sure that we can fit a lot of coffee in them. I hate these tiny little coffee cups. But you go subscribe right now. Use code book. You get an autographed copy of my book. Crockettcoffee.com do it. We come back, Supreme Court actually got something, right? We'll tell you about it.
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Jack Armstrong
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry.
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Joe Getty
You don't want to live your life like that.
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Jack Armstrong
Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty.
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Joe Getty
We're our strong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
We try to bring you the truth.
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Joe Getty
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Jack Armstrong
Something about a comedic tone.
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Joe Getty
We have a winner.
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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.