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Clay Travis
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Bill O'Reilly
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Clay Travis
Welcome in our number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the final show of the week. Encourage you as always go subscribe to the podcast. You can search out Clay Travis, you can search out Buck Sexton. You will get a variety of awes awesome podcast as a part of our podcast network. From moms to badass Navy Seals. All points in between you can find whatever story you would like to to find. We got a pretty good variety there I think. Buck. And we have, speaking of variety, a guy who's talked about every subject under the sun and written about a lot of them over the years. Bill O'Reilly, Bill, bringing you in. It's almost a hundred days and big broad question to start with you. I think hundred days will officially be early next week. How would you grade the first hundred days of the Trump administration? Has anything surprised you? Has anything stood out to you that maybe you were not anticipating also as a part of that grade that you might give?
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, you'd have to do subjects if you want to be fair and get grades. Different subjects, the economy, foreign affairs, immigration, all to get different grades. I think the Tariff Liberation Day stuff was unanticipated certainly by me. And you know, I have a pretty close contact with the White House. I know what they're doing and why they're doing. And I wasn't ready for that shock and awe at all. So Tuesday is 100 day anniversary. On Wednesday we'll be doing a two hour town hall on News Nation kicking it off with President Trump. He'll be on with me, Chris Cuomo, Stephen A. Smith, to go down the list of what has happened. But you know, a lot of this is emotion, not fact. And that's what I'm trying to get away from. But if you ask me a specific question about a policy that Trump has done in 100 days, I can give you a fairly specific answer.
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Buck Sexton
Let's, let's take a look first, Bill, at what you think on on the economy because that's been, I think the primary policy area where even people who are pro Trump maybe have gotten a little unnerved by some of the market moves recently. Right. It's one the left. Oh yeah, Trump is Hitler. He sent this ms.13 guy we expect all that stuff. But the economy, the tariffs, some of that I think, is where, you know, there's a little bit of a have faith in me, trust me attitude from Trump on this one. How do you, how do you assess how he's doing and what that's looking like so far?
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, whenever you mess with people's money, they're going to get emotional. Number one. I don't know if Donald Trump understands that because he's a child of privilege. He's been a wealthy person since he's been born. But I don't know if he understands the emotion that Americans have tied into their cash, because it's everything in this country. This is a capitalistic country, and if you don't have enough money, you're going to have a miserable life, period. So when the stock market began to wobble and then collapse for a few days, people not only started to worry, they got angry. Because when you're surprised in a negative way, usually the first emotion is anger. What are you doing? Get away from me. All right, that's natural. It's all natural. Same thing is people don't understand tariffs. To this day, they don't know what's going on. You can go out there with charts and you can go to night school or on the Internet and enroll in a macroeconomics course. It'll take you three or four weeks to understand what the tariffs are, Susan, like immigration, which is easy to understand. And so the emotion of the country was, what are you doing to Donald Trump? And that hurt him. Now, I don't know, you know, and I'm going to ask him certainly on Wednesday, you know, do you understand why Americans are disenchanted at this point? That on the record? Because it's all what I just told you is 100% true. The economy itself is pretty good. And it wasn't bad under Biden either. Prices killed Biden, but prices are coming down under Trump. In my area on Long island, gas prices are down significantly and food is down as well. Now, I don't think the greedy insurance company is going to drop their prices, and that was a big factor to destroying Joe Biden. But you don't know. Increased competition may cause that. But people have jobs, plenty of jobs around. Consumers are spending money, so the economy is okay. But this tariff deal, Trump's going for the big, big payoff here. And maybe he'll get it, but maybe doesn't counter panic.
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Clay Travis
We're talking to Bill O'Reilly. He's going to be having the president for 100 days. You've known the president a long time. You know, Buck has known the president for a long time. I've known him the last five or six years. He seems more comfortable to me, Bill, in this iteration of his presidency than he ever has before. I'm curious if you get that vibe from him, whether you would attribute it partly to surviving in Butler. Maybe it's winning the popular vote, maybe despite putting on the 2028 hat, it's knowing that there is an end to the race in sight where he's not necessarily a politician anymore. Do you get that sense? How would you assess him personally as we come up on this hundred day mark?
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, certainly he's far more comfortable than he was the first time around, because the first time around, he didn't know what he was doing.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Bill O'Reilly
So he comes into office and I can tell you this with certainty, knowing that the president before him failed dismally and with a personal grudge against Joe Biden. Donald Trump hates Joe Biden, and I don't use that word often. It's not a dislike, it's a hate. Because Trump believes that Biden was behind many of the legal problems that he experienced. Where's Merrick Garland, by the way? He's in a witness protection program. I never saw a guy get out of town faster than that.
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Clay Travis
Great point.
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Bill O'Reilly
All right, so Trump comes in and he goes. He's got an agenda where he didn't have that in the first go around. He was. It was. It took him almost six months to believe he was actually there. Okay. So he gets there and he goes, shock and awe. Shock and awe. Border boom works. Shock and awe. DEI boom works. Shock and awe. Tariffs, uh, oh, doesn't work now. The first few months before the tariffs, he was riding high and he was very super confident. Now it's a little more tentative. Add that to Putin basically poking him in the eye, because Trump did not anticipate that would happen. They had a structure of a deal before Trump was even elected. Putin and Trump. But Putin is so evil, so massively bad that he's going to cause as much problem as humanly possible before he'll make a deal. And Trump did not anticipate that. So that's throwing him off his game a little bit. Trump with the tariffs and Putin. But certainly he's far more confident now. And I was in a cabinet meeting with him and his advisers on St Patrick's Day than he was the first time around.
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Buck Sexton
Bill, could I just jump in on that? Because I think that's really interesting. Do you think that Putin may have underestimated Trump in this exchange? Because it's not looking good. And I mean that from the optics side of things, right? I know the deal's not done, nothing's been agreed to formally, etcetera, but for Putin to do the dramatic escalation with some of these strikes, maybe dramatic is too strong a word, escalation with some of these strikes. While this is ongoing, I think Trump feels a little slighted personally. And I just wonder if you think that Putin doesn't realize slighting Trump personally is not. Not smart business.
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Bill O'Reilly
You know, I am not a psychiatrist, but I have Vladimir Putin on the COVID of my upcoming book, Confronting Evil, which will be out September 9th. The guy is hardcore. He enjoys inflicting pain on other people. He's unpredictable. So it's hard for me to assess his motivation. I can tell you that Trump was confident because Trump looks at life in a linear way. If the deal is good, you take it. Putin doesn't see it that way. Putin wants to inflict pain on other people. That's what he's done his whole entire life. I don't know if Trump understands that. I actually told him that face to face eight years ago in the first interview he did before being inaugurated when I was on Fox News. And I said, this guy, he's a killer. And you know, the sound bite, it's a famous sound bite. He goes, well, we're not that pure ourselves. That was Trump's answer. Now, I believe that Trump knows that he's going to have to punish Putin in order to get Putin to do anything. And I. That strategy is underway.
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Clay Travis
How? You said you were in a cabinet meeting on St Patrick's Day with Trump. How confident are you in Pete Hegseth's stature as Defense secretary? So far, Trump has not had to fire anybody in the first hundred days. I think he wants to set the precedent that he is not going to listen to the media at all because they're never happy and they're always demanding the next head on a platter. How would you assess Hegseth status? And so far, Trump staying behind everybody that's a part of the Cabinet.
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Bill O'Reilly
When Hegseth was nominated, I said that was not a good nomination. You'll remember that. I think we talked about it on this program.
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Buck Sexton
We did, yeah.
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Bill O'Reilly
And the reason was that most people who work in that Pentagon are careerists their whole life. They work there. They don't want an agent of change walking in. That's Hegseth. They're going to try to undermine and destroy him. A stronger person with more experience could counter that. Hegseth can't. Therefore, he is not going to survive in that job. Now, your point about Donald Trump not being intimidated by the hate Trump media is an excellent point and everybody should understand it. He's not going to look weak. But I don't believe that Mr. Hegseth is going to be able to run the Pentagon. That will become clear to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who then tell Donald Trump, if they haven't already, you got to get somebody else in there.
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Buck Sexton
Let me ask you, Bill, also, we're running close up against the break here, but I did want to get this in. I'm sure you saw this, I guess maybe scuttlebutt about Besant and Elon, two guys with plenty of money and plenty of ego. I think that's fair to say, really going at it, if you believe the reports. And I haven't seen anybody. I mean, Caroline Levitt was like, you know, boys will be boys. So this wasn't no one has seemed to suggest this is fake. But getting personal, getting nasty over the IRS director, what do you see here? What are the bigger dynamics, maybe within the White House that you think this might allude to? Or is this just two guys, you know, scoping each other out, not liking what they see? What was this all about?
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't know what it was about, but I know it happened. So you're not going to see much of Elon Musk this summer. And I think his tenure at the White House. He still has the president's ear, but he's not going to be around very much. Bessing is emerging as a very powerful person in the Trump administration.
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Buck Sexton
What do you think about that?
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't know. I'm not, I don't know. I do know that he was a moderating force to pull back on the shock and awe with the tariffs and, you know, that worked. The market stabilized to some extent. That's a big plus for him.
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Buck Sexton
What is the one thing you want to see? I mean, I'm sure, sorry, I don't want to make you give up some of what you're going to be talking about in a few days. But I think everyone would expect you to ask the focus between now and the fall for Trump. I know there's a lot of things got to walk and chew gum at the same time. Sure. But if there's one area where he could put real points on the board in a way that would help with the momentum to get more of the agenda done. Not losing the midterms, etc. What would you want to see him? You know, what do you think the most important area for racking up wins is for this administration?
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Bill O'Reilly
Well, if what I'm hearing is true, he'll have deals with India and Japan to announce almost maybe next week. And if that happens, the EU will follow soon and Mexico and Canada also. If you can get that done in the month of May, then he'll be riding high again.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And then Bill, where can people go to see the interview? We're running into break here, but we wanted to make sure everyone knows where can they go? And also bill o'reilly.com for your daily analysis. Right?
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Bill O'Reilly
Yep. That's the place to go. Thanks for having me, guys.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis. Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Friday edition of the program. And Buck, you know, I know we were talking with, we were talking about Hex Seth making the decision, the right one to go back and try to get an Update on the COVID19 reinstatements and how important that was. I wanted to play this. I had him pull it. This is what Fauci was saying in July of 2020 about what would need to happen in order for kids to be back in school. I don't want any of you to forget the lies that we were told. Listen to the minimum of what teachers needed to be wearing per Foushee the minimal things you might want to do.
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Bill O'Reilly
Is you could use just a mask and eye goggles and possibly gloves. Now what you might want to do if you can, would be to put something on that you can dispose of or wash after a class, you know, and some sort of a garment that you can at the end of the day take off and not go home with it.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Friday edition of the program. We got comedian on comedian crime Bill Maher. Buck, you did a show a couple of months ago, went fantastically well, has managed to thread the needle where he's still doing something a bit rare, which is trying to make fun of both sides somewhat evenly, which used to be the province of the David Lettermans and the Johnny Carsons and the Jay Leno's in that era before everybody went crazy when Jimmy Fallon rubbed Donald Trump's hair. And since that point in time it has been determined that comedians must be on the side of the anti Trump, anti maga agenda as opposed to just continuing to make fun of everybody. And Larry David, who I like and is the George character inspiration on Seinfeld, and then did a really funny show called Curb youb Enthusiasm which aired for a decade worth of shows or more on hbo. I like him. I think he's a talented comedian. We don't have political agreement. And Larry David recently wrote an essay for the New York Times making fun of Bill Maher for going to dinner with Trump and comparing it to going to dinner with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Bill Maher now has responded to the comedy comedian on Comedian Crime by this. Cut, cut four. Talking about Larry David's essay.
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Bill O'Reilly
The minute you play the Hitler card.
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Rodney Williams
That'S what I think.
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Buck Sexton
You've lost the argument.
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Bill O'Reilly
Yes.
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Clay Travis
And also I must say, you know.
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Buck Sexton
Come on, man, Hitler, Nazis, nobody was.
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Clay Travis
Been harder about and on and more prescient, I must say about Donald Trump than me.
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Bill O'Reilly
I don't need to be lectured on.
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Buck Sexton
Who Donald Trump is. Just the fact that I met him.
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Bill O'Reilly
In person didn't change that. And the fact that I reported honestly.
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Clay Travis
Is not a sin either.
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Bill O'Reilly
But you know, to use the Hitler thing, first of all, I just think.
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Buck Sexton
It'S kind of insulting to 6 million. Yes.
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Bill O'Reilly
Dead Jews.
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Clay Travis
You know, like that should kind of.
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Buck Sexton
Be in its own place in history.
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Clay Travis
I think Bill Maher is completely right and he sounds eminently reasonable. I know these guys are supposed to be professionally funny, but when you make the attack that Larry David did, I think Bill Maher is 100% in the right here.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Hitler murdered 11 million people total in the death camps. 11 million. 6 million Jews. And you're going to compare that to Donald Trump and think that you're an intelligent, reasonable person. He's completely right about the people will refer to this as like the ad Hitlerum argument where you just, oh, he's Hitler, he's Hitler. I think it's interesting as well. You could argue Mao and or Stalin are just as bad. And yet people never go to those historical figures in this country the same way, which I think there are deep reasons for that because of the fondness for left wing Marxist ideology that a lot of people still have in this country. But anyway, I think, I think it's interesting how Bill has been mar. Has been able to straddle both sides of the aisle a little bit on this and be one of the rare shows. Look, when he had me on the show Clay in October, his audience didn't want to hear that Trump was going to win and he knew that I was going to come in there and say Trump is winning this election. Guys, Kamala is a joke and here's why. And he let me make that case. And now that Trump is one he's continued to have on some. Some weeks, you know, better than others. Some weeks it's a Trump is terrible week. But he does allow people to make the case the other side and exposes his audience to at least a real explanation or a real, you know, pro Trump version of events. And where else does that really occur in the. This is what's so amazing. Like, we've had a lot of good things happening in the media overall, where I think now they don't have anywhere near the same stranglehold on the public consciousness that they used to and determining what the news cycle is. Where do you see really good exchanges? And it's not every week on Bill Maher, don't send me. You know, recently there was an episode my brother told me, he's like, don't watch it. It's garbage. You know, but some weeks it's good. Where else do you see it? I think it's very rare.
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Clay Travis
Piers Morgan would be one. And it's a little bit more. How would I describe it? It's a little bit more of.
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Buck Sexton
That's a rock em sock em kind of situation.
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Clay Travis
I enjoy. I enjoy it. But it's got.
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Buck Sexton
Clay's like, oh, I like the Rockham sock em pedal. I'm like, I'm not surprised, Clay.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, but. But he does try to bring on divergent perspectives and then people are just throwing punches in every direction. And so it can have a political Jerry Springer connotation to it, for lack of a better way to describe it. But I do think what is super fascinating to me, Buck, about the Larry David piece where he compares Trump to Hitler and then Al Gore went a little bit viral this week as well, comparing Trump to Hitler. After all of this, at the end of 100 days, we're right back to Trump as Hitler. They don't have anything. That was how the campaign ended. You know, they Chicabola tried to kind of knock around and say things. And she didn't really become the best advocate for her cause to the extent there was one. And she said she wouldn't have done anything different than Joe Biden. And she ran a thoroughly awful campaign which was partly camouflaged by having $1.5 billion to ever. Can you imagine, Buck, if you had $1.5 billion to spend and the whole goal was just to make people like you? That's basically the entire aspect of a political campaign. Now, I know also, you're telling the saying the other side is bad, but by and large you get to spend a billion and a half dollars to convince people to like you. And it didn't work. And they closed with Trump as Hitler all over again. And now after 100 days they tried out other messages but ultimately they just have cycled right back to Trump as Hitler. So what do we got? 265 plus three more years on top of that. So we got basically 1000 days of Trump as Hitler. That's going to be their only message. It's really kind of unbelievable that this is where they are.
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Buck Sexton
You know, a lot of people are saying, people are saying, some people are saying out there, a lot of people are saying that it's going to be aoc. Have you seen that? That AOC is going to be the great hope of the Democrat Party.
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Clay Travis
Oh yeah.
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Buck Sexton
More and more articles, more and more analysis about this. I know you think it won't be, it won't be a woman, which is an interesting, interesting take on it.
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Clay Travis
They won't say it publicly, but in the same way, buck that I saw people the other day saying, you know, it's really a no brainer that Mayor Pete should be the nominee. And I'm like, black dudes are not voting for a gay white guy. Next man up. I mean, and I'm sorry, but that when your base of your party is black voters and no black voters who are male by and large are willing to vote for a gay white guy, he has no hope of being elected president of the United States.
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Buck Sexton
I think, though, if you talk to a Democrat strategist, someone who's a Democrat who works on these campaigns, you know, people that we come across in the media, you know, you know the names, they would put it differently. But agree with your analysis of Mayor Pete's weakness among certain demographics in the Democratic.
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Clay Travis
They just wouldn't say the truth bluntly. I'm telling the truth bluntly on women too. They won't say it publicly, but.
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Buck Sexton
No, but I think they would just, I think they would even behind closed doors disagree with you on the woman thing. I think that they would believe that, that the problem hasn't been running a woman candidate. The problem has been the woman candidate. Again, speaking from the Democrat mindset, I don't think that they would say it's, it's that they ran a woman, is that the women that they ran were not up to that were not up to the task. And look, Hillary was super close to winning. Okay.
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Clay Travis
I mean, I know, I mean Far away from winning either. I just.
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Buck Sexton
Right. But, but even in the, even if you look at this like Trump did better against Kamala than he did against Hillary. Right? Yeah, Hillary was close. It was a, it was a pretty close election. Trump just ran the table exactly where he needed to. So I don't think anyone's going to look at that and say, oh, we couldn't get a stronger female candidate across the finish line.
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Clay Travis
I don't think they're going to be. Look at what they did. Is it Dudes Forever then?
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Buck Sexton
Is that, just look at Clay Travis forever. That sounds like today on the show.
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Clay Travis
Dudes Forever sounds like one of the worst 90s boy band.
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Buck Sexton
That sounds like a new, like a new podcast. What's it was in the dudes. There's a Dudes on Dudes podcast.
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Clay Travis
Dudes on Dudes. Yeah, that's. I think that's Gronkowski and Edelman. But look, I think, I think actually a Republican woman has a better chance of winning because I think the problem that Democrats have when they put forward a woman is it makes almost immediately the entire election a referendum on abortion. And I think that even for motivating women, I think Kamala learned in 2024, you watch her closing arguments. What was Trump is Hitler. And not only is he Hitler, if you get pregnant, he's going to drag you out of your home by your hair and make you have a baby. And what is interesting is Trump did better with women in 2024 than he did in 2016 or in 2020. I think abortion is fading as an issue because it's now a state issue. And I think that women candidates almost feel compelled Democrats to make abortion their signature issue. And I don't think it's a signature enough issue for the nation anymore.
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Buck Sexton
I always thought that the pro abortion, pro Roe side of the argument was wildly overstating how much of an impact it would have on elections. And I think we actually just saw that beyond any doubt in this election in the midterms because of when the decision came down. Right. Wasn't it June and then the midterms were that fall. People didn't know.
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Clay Travis
That's right.
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Buck Sexton
That what they were being told was a lie. So the meat. So the Democrats got away with exactly what you said. They're going to pull your, you know, your 15 year old daughter, you know, out of your house and make her have the baby that she wasn't planning. You know, all these things.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
All the stories that you were seeing.
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Clay Travis
Fear mongering, the things that would Motivate middle of the road female voters.
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Buck Sexton
There, there were some people who might have said, oh my gosh, I'm concerned, what is this going to mean? All of that stuff was a lie. And if you just live in reality, you know that that's a lie. And so that's why I think if it had happened a year sooner, the decision, I think you would have had even less impact in the midterms. But because of the timeline, they were able to lie about it and get away with it. But that's, that's over. And the truth is, how do you motivate people in states where, you know, if you live in a state and you, you know, you're somebody who, the law hasn't actually changed in that state. It's very hard in a meaningful way. It's very hard to convince people that something terrible has happened. Right.
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Clay Travis
I mean, not only that, Buck, just look at where people are moving. All of the states with the most liberal abortion laws are losing population to the states with the least liberal abortion laws. Now, if people truly felt like that was a signature oh my goodness issue, you wouldn't be moving from Chicago to Florida or New York City to Nashville or LA to Austin, Texas. You would be saying, well, we've got to keep our families in these states because abortion policy matters so much to me. Instead, you're seeing the exact opposite of that, which is the more liberal, that is basically nine month plus abortion laws, the more those states are losing population.
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Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
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Bill O'Reilly
You just did it. Just you wait. You're gonna see that when that baby gets a little bit older, he's gonna want to stay awake, and you're going.
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Buck Sexton
To be used to him going to sleep, and you're gonna be tired, Buck. But congratulations. It's wonderful. Thank you, Tom.
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Clay Travis
TOM sounds people who don't know you may have jinxed things by saying the first couple of weeks your son had been sleeping pretty well.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. Oh, I'm aware that I might have jinxed it, but I'm, I, all I can do is report back. Honestly, people could ask me, like, are you okay? I'm like, I'm fine. Like, first of all, as I said, Carrie's doing 95% of baby, you know, baby things that need to be done. She's doing 90. I mean, I help out as I can, but she's, she's amazing on that front. And so, yeah, I think so far, so good. Cindy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The different Mount Verdon. What's going on, Cindy? Buck? Yes, it's Buck.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Buck Sexton
I love Crockett coffee.
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Bill O'Reilly
My favorite gift was a bag of Crockett coffee and a daddy's Home mug.
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Buck Sexton
With Donald Trump's mug on it? I. I love it. Can you. Can you take a photo of you with your Donald Trump mug drinking Crockett and put it out on social media? We can share it around so everybody can see the good. I don't even have it. I'm so archaic. I can take an old kind. And if you. If I didn't even know your address.
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Bill O'Reilly
I can get that from somebody. I'm not a stalker.
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Buck Sexton
I'm not creepy. That's okay. You can send it into the studio in New York. They'll give you the address, and then we'll. We can upload it, and we can get that going.
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Clay Travis
But that's.
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Buck Sexton
We love that you love Crockett coffee and Donald Trump. A fantastic combination. And, Cindy, thank you so much for calling, and thank you for listening. We'll take one more here. Dave in Pennsylvania. What's going on, Dave? Oh, he's gone. Well, I should have stayed. I should have stayed with Cindy. Who was.
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Bill O'Reilly
Who?
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Buck Sexton
Tom in New York, Don in New York. Don in New York. Go for it. Yeah, I don't think I have enough time. Can you. Can you get back to me after the hour? I don't know, man. Clay's taking over. Clay, your call, buddy. What do you want to do?
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Clay Travis
We got Tom Holman coming on. I guess we can have you wait on. I mean, I've never. We've never had anybody request to come on later.
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Buck Sexton
How much time do you need, Don? Give us, like a. Give us a ball ballpark here. What are we talking about? Two minutes. Did you say black people won't vote for homosexual?
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I did.
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Buck Sexton
All right. Yeah, I want to talk to you about that. Yeah, I got a theory on that. I'll wait. That's all right. I'll talk to you after home is over.
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Bill O'Reilly
Okay, Enjoy.
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Clay Travis
Have a good weekend, Buck. Tom Holman next.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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Bill O'Reilly
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Buck Sexton
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