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Buck Sexton (2:36)

Thanks for being here with us. We will get updates for you. I know you're on the Edge of your seats. You're like, buck, forget about the fate of the Republic. Who cares about the economy, war and peace in the Caribbean with Venezuela? None of those things matter until we know the US Men's national soccer team draw. So we. So we'll get you that information as soon as we can. They're playing, you know, Spain, Argentina and Bolivia. Who are they playing? We'll get you that when we can. I promise. I will not leave that off of. Of our list of things to inform you of today. Yeah, Clay is at the FIFA event. Trump just got the FIFA peace award. I think years ago, FIFA was super corrupt. Sounds about right. Wasn't there some big problem with FIFA? There's maybe even a documentary about. I can't remember now. The only FIFA that I know of is the. I'm not gonna lie, The Play a PlayStation 5 video game, which I am really good at. Like very good. I probably play it too much. I find it very relaxing for the mind. It's a very. I really don't watch TV very much. I watch shows here and there. Carrie and I, I think we're about to start watching Task, which has got the annoying actor who has the really left wing politics, Mark Ruffalo. But I've heard it's good on hbo. I just, I like to watch on the weekends, you know, a little wifey time. We put speed to sleep. I had speed myself last night. Kerry went out for a girls night. Went out there, you know, when I went out, not dancing, but, you know, went out to dinner, had fun with the ladies and everything else. She says, you want to come? I said, you know what? I'm just going to rock out with speed, you know, we watched a samurai show. That's. That's what the two guys do when. When wifey is. Is out on the town with the ladies. It's Art Basel here this week in Miami, which is very fancy. So I. Everyone. This is always the funny thing that happens. Everyone always asks me who comes down to Miami around this time of year. Oh, what are you doing for Basel? And I have to tell them, well, the people who know me already know this, but the people don't know me that well. I have to tell them whatever does not require me to leave my home, see people, or be in any traffic. The traffic here is total madness. It's like the UN General assembly, but with fancy artwork. Like UN General assembly in New York, where it's just gridlock everywhere. There's a lot of traffic. It's a great event for Miami and I'm glad everyone has fun and there's parties and everything else, but, you know, I'm. I was having a great time. Speed and I were watching the samurai stuff. It's great. You know, it was really fun. So why was it telling you? But. Oh yeah, the show task. I'll probably check that out. It's tough to, tough to find a good show, but I do, I do enjoy. I got started playing the occasional video game during COVID because I was locked at home just, you know, eating gluten free Mac and cheese. We have Clay right now. See, look at the amazing tap dancing that I do here while we're waiting for Mr. Clay Travis to call us from the FIFA event. Hey, buddy, everyone's waiting for you. How you doing?

Clay Travis (5:51)

It's pretty spectacular, Buck. I'm not gonna lie. I'm just stepped out here in the grand foyer outside of the theater where hopefully soon, you know, they just had the prime minister of Canada and president of Mexico and Trump on. I don't know if people are watching, they're about to start the draw sooner or later. But this thing is really well done, very well put on. Roma Duravi, you know, who is, has been on the show before, is one of the board members here. But they put on an absolute spectacular show so far. They took over the Kennedy Center, FIFA did. And look, a lot of people are having this conversation. I do think it's cool. People say, okay, well, why is the president involved? What's going on here? I think Trump 100% sees this as a huge part of America's 250th anniversary celebration. He's going to have the UFC fight. He's going to put on a show the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time. And I think he wants the whole world to recognize what pretty much everybody out there listening to us would agree with, which is this is the absolute best country that's ever existed in the history of the world. And we should put our best face forward for the 250th anniversary of the country. And so the birthday celebration is going to include this incredible sporting festival that hasn't been here in 30 years. So I think it's going to be awesome. And I've got my fingers crossed. I was out with our friend Alexi Lawless last night for dinner, who, you know, we've had on the show quite a bit, the lead soccer analyst for Fox Sports. And, you know, he's already run through the best possible draw for people who don't know, the draw can dictate to a large extent whether you advance to the knockout stage. And, you know, hopefully we'll get a good draw here in the next 20, 30 minutes. I don't know that it's out there very publicly, but two of the games are going to be played in Los Angeles for the US Men, and one of them is going to be played in Seattle. So they already know where the location for the games are going to be for the US Team, but they don't know who's going to actually be. Be playing. So that's what we're waiting on right now for. For this event to determine.

Buck Sexton (8:04)

Clay, we are the best country, but unfortunately, we're not the best soccer team, that's for sure. How is the U.S. men's team? I'm sure, you know, Lexi talked about this. Are they actually going to maybe get out of the. The first knockout stage? Yeah.

Clay Travis (8:19)

So he felt good about them. So they now have expanded the knockout stage to 32 teams from 16, and he felt good about them getting to the round of 32. Again, we have to wait and see exactly what the group play is going to be, but he felt good about that. And look, we're around the 12th or 13th best team united States men are. And, and so, yeah, I think that's about the FIFA rankings. Somebody in the studio can pull them up. Exactly. But, you know, the problem is there's a. Sometimes a big drop off. The talk is it's Spain.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (8:54)

It is.

Clay Travis (8:57)

Spain, France, Spain, France and England, in addition, obviously, to Brazil and Argentina and that caliber of team. So what we have is not anywhere near the talent that the elite programs have, the elite countries. So we have to rely on some good fortune, good luck, the ball bouncing our proverbial way in order to make some noise. I think, and I will say there was hope, you know, this, that this was going to be kind of the golden generation, that we were going to have a lot of good young players that all came together, as sometimes occurs in countries. And I just think the Christian Pulisics of the world that were supposed to be the stars of this team have not necessarily advanced like we would have hoped four years ago in terms of becoming the best at what they do now.

Buck Sexton (9:48)

How was it in there when Trump got his Peace Award, the FIFA Peace Award? Or is there grumbling about this from the journos? I mean, it's a high five for Trump.

Clay Travis (9:59)

Oh, yeah. The journos are furious in the sports media. And, you know, this.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (10:03)

It's.

Clay Travis (10:03)

It's it's kind of very interesting when you think about it. In America, soccer is kind of a sport for the left wing, I would say, sort of elite people. Whereas in most of the rest of the world, soccer is the game that all the poor kids play.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (10:22)

Right.

Clay Travis (10:22)

In America, it's kind of flipped. Soccer tends to have a higher socioeconomic status, and so soccer fans overwhelmingly skew Democrats.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (10:32)

Right.

Clay Travis (10:33)

You know, not necessarily the Yay America fans, but just the hardcore soccer fans. They're furious about it. But, you know, I kind of love it. But yes, that, that element of the. Of the American sports media is just throwing up their arms. And it's, I think, kind of smart of Trump to lean in on this because, you know, we were last night out with some of the international soccer players at a FIFA event, and several of them were kind of rolling their eyes at the idea, the European guys, that Trump was going to get this Peace Prize today, which, again, I just think is absolutely spectacular. Just drove them crazy.

Buck Sexton (11:13)

Yeah, I was gonna say for nothing else, the trolling value of Trump getting the award is fantastic. Something clay that I'm just curious about the atmospherics here, the streets of D.C. you're obviously with a lot of D.C. residents there. A lot of people live there, the journos and others. White House staff, you know, give Stephen Miller a high five from, from the Clay and Buck Show. But is there talk about the streets really feeling. I know we just had the horrible incident with the National Guard, but that was really a terrorist attack. Is there sense that things are safer from a crime perspective?

Clay Travis (11:48)

Yeah, I do think that's the case. I mean, I was talking to some people last night, and they said they just don't feel like they have to look over their shoulder as much when they're going around in. In D.C. now, like many cities, parts of D.C. are comparatively safe. You know, the northwest D.C. which is where the White House is, tends to be safer than Southeast, for instance, for people who know the area. So the driving down of violent crime, though, has been pretty spectacular across the board. You know, we're talking about 60% declines to, you know, frankly, lows of crime that we have not seen almost in the history of the city of Washington. And, you know, it's going well because you don't hear anything hardly at all about. About the protests going on anymore. And I will say I didn't see them, but there were evidently going to be protesters outside of the Kennedy Center. Go figure. Protesting Trump getting the peace award. And so when I was walking in, I walked through a group of D.C. cops. And they were all talking about the fact I heard them getting a briefing. They were saying, hey, guys, just be aware, we're expecting some protesters to show up. They've got the area fenced, so you have to go through security because the presidents are here. But. But I was kind of hoping that I would see, you know, these bedraggled, you know, old people protesting the World cup and Trump getting the Peace Prize, not dissimilar to what we saw when we were up here a little bit less than a year ago for the inauguration. So there definitely is the sense that the city is safer, but there's still that, you know, tiny baseline of absolute morons that will even show up to protest the FIFA event because they think that the President is being honored too much at the FIFA event.

Buck Sexton (13:42)

I also, you've got to get some reaction from the journos that are assembled there, Clay, for me, about how this is a big week for Trump and peace because not only did he get the FIFA Peace Prize, which we let, we play that live on air as he was talking, you know, saying thank you and all that. He's renamed the Institute of Peace for himself.

Clay Travis (14:01)

Yeah, yeah. No, look, I mean, I actually thought Trump's acceptance speech was relatively humble, as Trump accepted speeches go. But he immediately put his gold medal of Peace on, which has got everybody losing their minds. And let's be honest, I mean, he should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize. So the fact that FIFA has created their own Peace Prize and that he is the inaugural recipient is somewhat funny, but again, I think speaks to the good relationship that he has with the president of FIFA. And I give the president of FIFA credit because again, there are lots of European countries that are soccer watching this right now live. You know, they say up to a billion people may be watching this World cup draw, which is crazy, right, to think about around the world because it's such a big deal to see who you're going to play and where you're going to play. And so the President understands, certainly speaking to big audiences, but there are a lot of die hard soccer fans that are furious that Trump got the Peace Prize, which, frankly, I love.

Buck Sexton (15:07)

Me too. Well, Clay, thank you for doing some on the scene sports correspondence for us here. Very good stuff, no doubt.

Clay Travis (15:13)

I'll send you a memo. If we get a voice memo, you guys can. Yes, if we get a good draw. And I'll break it down the, the likely success here, I might even pass the phone to Alexi Lawless and let him be the official expert, uh, analyst of the draw.

Buck Sexton (15:29)

Fantastic here short. We're here, we're live. Let us know. And, uh, we will certainly, uh, also talk to on Monday. So if I don't talk to you before then, have a great weekend, man.

Clay Travis (15:38)

All right, everybody else out there too. And fingers crossed we get a good draw here very shortly.

Buck Sexton (15:43)

Oh, everyone's bated breath from all the SEC football fans about the U.S. soccer. U.S. soccer bracket. We'll see how this goes. Thank you, Clay. All right, look. This holiday season, this holiday season, think big. Think fun. Think of surprising a friend or a family member where they give from Good Ranchers, the company sending delicious, mouth watering steaks and burgers to your home. Look, full disclosure. Kerry and I subscribe to Good Ranchers and get a fresh package of their meats. Chicken, pork. Every month. It's like Christmas morning every month. No matter what time of year, good ranchers sources 100% of their proteins from American ranchers. Every one of them makes a commitment to no growth hormones, no antibiotics in the animals they raise. The result is pure, delicious meat. Chicken, pork, even salmon. Good Ranchers makes gifting easy. Just choose any gift box, add a note and schedule delivery. And whether it's for family, friends, employees or clients, Good Ranchers makes the most memorable gift. Visit goodranchers.com to start gifting. Subscribe. Use my name Buck as your promo code for $40 off your first order and free Meat for Life. Goodranchers.com $40 off plus free Meat for Life with code BUCK.

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Buck Sexton (19:37)

All right, welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. It was fun to have Clay call us live from the scene of the FIFA bracket draw, which he says has a billion people worldwide watching. People like.

Buck Sexton (19:51)

Not so much in America, but somewhat in America. But people like their soccer. You guys can make your jokes all day about about soccer, but it is a very popular thing around the world. Some of you like soccer, some of you I'm sure are fans. I would, I would guess like 20 actually. I wonder what the nationwide numbers are for people describing themselves as soccer fans. All right, whatever. That's not. That's not something we have to spend too much time on. I did want to update you on this because I had mentioned it and now Fox News is reporting it. I had seen it was one of these chain of reportage situations where it was someone saying that someone said that somebody, you know, talk to somebody at CNN or something. And, you know, that was a little bit removed. But here's what we've got now on this guy, Brian Cole Jr. He is the one who was arrested by the FBI for the pipe bomb, leaving the pipe bombs in front of the RNC and the dnc. Fox reporting that sources close to the investigation are saying that this guy had.

Buck Sexton (21:01)

He doubted the 2020 presidential election outcome and he's making his first federal court appearance later today. He has made multiple statements to law enforcement. So there he has weighed in on this. Now, a second source telling Fox News here the suspect's possible motivation, just one piece of information in an active, ongoing investigation. There is not a full picture of the suspect that has emerged. Now, here's what I can tell.

Buck Sexton (21:34)

They are already running with this as though it is a fait accompli. It is a certainty that this guy is a Trump supporter, that that is what they are saying, that this guy is a Trump supporter and therefore, you know, part of all of the political violence, et cetera, of January 6th. Notice this. First of all, I'm not saying that I'm telling you what they are saying and that it may be the case that he viewed himself as a Trump supporter. He's also a crazy person. But one thing that you will notice very much or right away, they aren't waiting for more facts on this moment. All of a sudden, all the cases, think of all the times where there's a manifesto left behind and there's a, and it couldn't be any more obvious who we're dealing with. The same thing. Whether it was the guy who tried to shoot Trump, they were trying to say there were efforts to make it sound like the guy who tried to shoot Trump and shot him in the ear was a, was somehow actually a Trump supporter. They will say anything. So I'm very aware of that. I'm very aware of the dishonesty that the media will engage in to score political points on this stuff. But they're not going to wait for more facts. They're going to be running with an Ms. Now, CNN all weekend. All the conversations all weekend are going to be, oh, well, we have this. He didn't like that or he didn't trust the 2020 election. So clearly this guy is MAGA. That's what they're going to be saying. We'll continue to look at the facts as they come in. And it's just, just the early innings here, my friend. All right, folks who keep track of crime stats, well, they don't have Good news to deliver because a home burglary, for example, happens every 30 seconds in this country. This is a reminder. You got to have ways to defend yourself. Saber makes non lethal protection tools that are effective. To this end, Saber is the company we trust with our families with when it comes to the best non lethal self protection tools out there. Saber, for example, is the number one pepper spray brand trusted by law enforcement. Sabre is spelled S A B R E. The website is saberradio.com Their products are non lethal but they pack a punch to stop the threat. The pepper gel projectile launcher is a great example of this. Go check out the products they have. Go to sabre radio.coms a b r e radio.com or call 844-824 safe. That's 844-824 safe.

Clay Travis (24:01)

All right.

Buck Sexton (24:01)

Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. We are joined now by Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma. Senator, always good to talk to you. Thanks for making the time for us.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (24:12)

Oh, absolutely. Glad to be on your show again.

Buck Sexton (24:15)

So Clay is out today. He sends his regards. He is hanging out with the president and others at the Kennedy center for FIFA. Before we get into serious things, I'm going to kind of reverse the order here. Usually we get the less serious things toward the end. But are you at least for today a soccer fan? Where do you come down on this?

Senator Markwayne Mullin (24:35)

I don't know the first thing about soccer at all. Zero. None.

Buck Sexton (24:40)

Okay. I like the honesty. I had a feeling. I didn't want, I'm not trying to typecast you, but I had a feeling you might go in that direction that you weren't going to tell me that you're like a big Manchester City fan or something. So anyway, okay.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (24:52)

Just getting that name you a player or, or a team and. But you just said Manchester. So there I could name you that one.

Buck Sexton (25:00)

But one, one transition piece I could, I could give you on this though, Senator, is president Trump got an award, the FIFA Peace award, which, well, whether it's a new award. Right. So it doesn't have quite the esteem of say the Nobel Prize. But with a billion people apparently watching this event at the Kennedy center, the president of the United States getting this peace award from his international body, I can tell you the journos very unhappy about it. Very unhappy.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (25:28)

Well, I don't any journalist, it seems like for the most part not you guys but most of these journalists are so left wing they can't stand a president. But think about this saying how many countries he's brought peace to since he's been in office, there's been nine wars. He stopped so that you could say 18 countries. And almost everyone. These countries, you know, they, they appreciate sports and soccer too. And, you know, one thing we do do, one thing. My office we work with is the USA Athletic Department. So when you start talking about, I say department, US Athletics, be it from the world to the Olympic side of things, we work with their getting visas. We started with the wrestling community because obviously that's what we do. And that's what my family does, that's what my kids do, that's what I did is wrestle. And so we worked so well with that that we've helped with this process, getting tough countries visas to be able to come in here, to be able to compete. And we're doing the same thing with the Olympic program, too. So that's my extent of helping with greens. You know, I guess they say football, we say soccer to, to help with making sure it's a great event here.

Buck Sexton (26:38)

Again, turning us to the international scene here and taking us in a different direction toward national security, war and peace. These strikes. I played some of the audio before the strikes on the narco boats coming from Venezuela toward the United States. And they've been taken out. I think we're getting close to now 100 who will have been. Who will have been killed in this process of these strikes. Maybe a dozen or so boats, something like a few dozen boats. There was all this allegation swirling in the media, allegations were swirling in the media about this as a war crime. I played Senator Cotton, your colleague, he seems entirely satisfied the strikes were lawful and legitimate. I wanted you to weigh in on this.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (27:23)

Yes, absolutely, 100%. Any Democrat that comes out right now that saw this briefing, that saw the video, that had opportunity to read it, anyone that comes to any other conclusion is flatlined to you, hundred percent, completely lying to you. Now, those that haven't got the briefing and those that haven't read their documents and those that haven't saw the video, they've chose to be ignorant on it because they. The White House has made it accessible to them. And so there's no excuse for you talking on the point of ignorance, because if you're going to be talking about the subject, you should, and you think it's your passion about it, so you're going to complain about the administration for doing something wrong, then at least be smart enough to go get the facts. Because anybody that watches it knows without a doubt this was a good hit. These individuals wasn't just floating in the water. They were actively trying, and this isn't classified information, they were actually trying to, to get the boat back right side up. And they were also communicating with another boat that was in the area that we know was trying to come and pick them up. And it is very, very, very clear when it goes to where the requirements are for the Navy or the Coast Guard to intercept and rescue stranded people in open water and when they are not to put a person, meaning a service member, in harm's way to do so. When they're considered an enemy force, which the terrorist organizations are terrorists, we've deemed them terrorists. We know that they carry arms in these boats. We don't. That's not a maybe. We know they do. We do know that this was a, an active terrorist organization that was actively trying to bring poison drugs into our, into our country. And so without question, this was a good hit. And I'm glad these individuals are on the bottom of the ocean.

Buck Sexton (29:16)

You are on the Armed Services committee in the U.S. senate. And just for all of our, I know you know that, but for all of our listeners. And so you're very much getting briefed, you're in the know on what's going on here, the situation of Maduro and Venezuela. What can you tell us about the trajectory here and what the Trump administration is seeking as the end game?

Senator Markwayne Mullin (29:42)

We want Maduro to leave and we gave him an opportunity, even though we have a reward for him to be taken out, live or dead doesn't really make any difference to us. We have told him he could leave peacefully if he chose to go to a different country. His country has made it very clear that they do not want him there. This used to be a democracy. Now that he has turned it into a dictator slash communist country. He's absolutely run the country. He's, he's destabilized the entire region because Venezuela used to be this great democracy that had a strong economy. He is, he has now turned it into his playground for terrorism and in drugs instead of the great economy it used to be. So the president has made it very clear we will allow you to go to Russia. We'll actually allow you to go the country you choose to go to. But you can't stay where you're at now. That doesn't mean that we're going to commit troops to the country. That's not what we're, that's not what we've committed to do. What we will do, though, is if we have labs that are making their narcotics that are killing our friends and family and loved ones on our, on our streets, in our towns and our states that we will strike those inside Venezuela if we have to. We're able to do that because we've done this with terrorist organizations all over the world. I mean, you think about, you know, for these Democrats are throwing a fit about the president using this kinetic force. They never said a word when Obama, when he killed his thousands with.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (31:18)

Drone strikes and airstrikes to same terrorist organizations that the United States had deemed as a terrorist, as terrorist organization. So I have zero issue with what's happening. And I think the president's approach to Venezuela is spot on.

Buck Sexton (31:35)

Senator Mark Wade Mullen with us now of Oklahoma. Something I wanted you to weigh in on and I know that this is something you have a personal understanding of, which is the position of American ranchers and the beef industry. You know, this has come up a bunch with Trump and the tariff talks. Just can you tell us how's it going for American ranchers right now? And is there any policy, fix, change or addition that should be made? Because having a robust beef industry, not just because I love a good steak, it's my favorite actual food. But how is that, how is that part of our economy doing and how's the Trump administration working to bolster it?

Senator Markwayne Mullin (32:17)

Well, it's tough. You know, we're a cow calf operation. We have a lot of, a lot of, a lot of lot of cattle. And we've seen the prices drop sharply. There's been a lot of dispute from those of us that sell on the hoof. That means the cow or the, or the steer itself that we're selling. We call that on the hoof. There's a big difference between what we get market price and what is selling out of the meat packers by the box of beef, by the box. Huge difference in pricing. What we don't understand is why the pricing has continued to drop. The president had put out a couple of statements in the market, in my opinion, overreacted on it. And then the president said he was going to start investigating the big four meat packers for price fixing, which we feel like they are. And then immediately you saw Tyson come out and said they're closing their doors, which they did. And so you got three major meat packers left. And the interesting thing is all three of those are foreign owned and they're controlling the market. It's not a free market. Where do you consolidate that much? And it's very tough to be a rancher today. There is any startup ranches today. You can't do that you either own your land and you're running cattle on it, so you're a landowner that has cattle on it.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (33:30)

Or you know, you're, you're going broke because you can't have, you can't have both. Used to, when I first started, you could run cattle and purchase land based on the land and how many and how many heads you thought you could run on it. That would make sense. Today, land prices are so high, tractor prices are so high, your input cost from your fertilizer to your seed to grain into labor costs. It doesn't make any sense if you're trying to make a land payment on top of that with cattle alone. So it's a very, very tough industry. And it's one of the few. It's the only, it's the only protein industry that hasn't consolidated into corporate farms. You see it, you know, chicken as chicken and pork obviously consolidated into, into corporate farms. Beef is, we have been able to prevent that from happening. But if we don't take a hard, complete look at this, you could see where that might turn into it because it's, it's very difficult. Hoof prices right now are not hoof prices, but are herd. It's down to the level of, of 1953 and only getting worse because right now people are going to, are having to sell off. They were trying to sell off because of prices, but they got some loans on some of this stuff. They've got to sell at low prices. So they're trying to, they're having to sell more head than what they'd even anticipated to do.

Buck Sexton (34:46)

Senator, can I ask you just in the realm of what might be helpful or. I want your. You, you know way more about this industry than I do. I'm totally a student here. I have no expertise at all other than, as I said, I want a robust, robust meat industry, domestic meat industry here in America for a whole bunch of reasons. To that end, is there an adjustment that should be made to country of origin labeling so that people know, you know, my beef or my chicken, whatever is from here in America, in the.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (35:14)

Heartland, you could do that. Studies have showed that it probably wouldn't make that big of a difference for those that need. Because they're still going to buy by the price. They're not going to, they're just, they're going to purchase things that they can afford. What we really probably need to start looking at is there's, there's crop prices. So there's always a backstop for those. For, for the farmers. We Might have to be looking at some point that there's a backstop for ranchers too. Kind of like there's crop insurance. We maybe have to look at some type of beef insurance. There used to be that out there, but it's just not affordable today. And so we've had a lot of conversations with the farmers and our ranchers combined with. But beef is just so, so, so unique. And so we've. Congress is really good at working off emergencies and waiting until the last minute and sometimes it's too late. I think these conversations that we're having is helpful, but we're nowhere near trying to figure out how to happen and how to make it work. Because at the same time there's a lot of ranchers out there that say, hey, just the best thing government can do is just get out of our way. Just let the market work. Just don't, don't touch us. And there's a lot to be said about that. But then there's the other ones that saying we can't afford to go unless there's somebody backing us and banks.

Buck Sexton (36:29)

And I think, just think for a senator, for people like me that don't know much, I mean the American beef industry, just a quick search on it, It's a, it's 100 billion dollar industry for everybody. It's a big deal, right? Matters. A big industry matters to, to our economy, matters the country. So. Well, we'll continue to look at that and obviously if at any point there's something you want to bring to our attention. On that one, there's something I think that really hits home with people, what goes on their plate, whether it's chicken, beef, pork, whatever it may be. We want to make sure we get the best, we get the best pricing and that we have it here from America whenever possible. Senator, appreciate you making the time for us today. You have a great weekend.

Senator Markwayne Mullin (37:06)

Thanks Buck. Appreciate it.

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Welcome back to Clay and Buck. We'll talk to Isabel Brown here coming up in a moment, and that will be very interesting. She was on CNN last night and sitting there in, in the cauldron of madness that is the CNN Roundtable, whatever that show is. I don't remember the name of the show, but it doesn't matter. Cnn, it's the one with Scott Jennings that he goes on to. Where you get this is the only, the only thing Democrats can do to get anyone to watch these days is just put up these clay pigeons who get blown to smithereens by conservatives on the air over and over again. That's it. That's all they've got. Speaking of getting, getting the rough stuff.

Buck Sexton (41:34)

You might have seen that. I believe Trump, I believe the president said that Tim Walls was retarded. Right. Isn't that, am I right on that? I'm just quoting him. I don't think people, people are not now saying the, the R word. Instead, they actually will just say retarded. So I believe that President Trump said that Tim Walsh is retarded. Tim Walls is very upset because this has now created for the governor of Minnesota a situation where now a lot of people are, in fact, calling him retarded. This is cut five. Listen.

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Clay Travis (42:15)

This creates danger. And I'll tell you what, in my time on this, I'd never seen this before. People driving my house, by my house and using the R word in front of people. This is shameful. And I have yet to see an elected official, a Republican elected official, say, you're right, that's shameful. He should not say it. So look, I'm worried. We know how these things go. They start with taunts, they turn to violence. So deeply concerned.

Buck Sexton (42:38)

Yes. The, the lecture that Tim Walls is giving us now about the word used by a guy who was shot through the ear while he was running for president and then had some other sniper setting up on him on a golf course a month later. We need lectures about violence from mean rhetoric from Democrats. Sure we do. This is just one of these things though, where because Tim Walls does not want. He clearly is very bothered by Trump referring to, referring to him as retarded. He does not want to rather because he says that bothers him a lot more people are going to say it. Everyone from the schoolyard, you know this when, when you get taunted with something, if you say, don't call me that, the people who are taunting you, they're going to lean into it even more. But it is a reminder that Tim Walls is a remarkably inept fellow and presided over one of the most, as governor, one of the most breathtaking and obvious and really gross frauds in recent memory in this country where you have all these Somali immigrants pretending that they're helping children who are hungry and buying themselves cars and houses with the money. And Tim Walls, his government in Minnesota just like doesn't care. If anything, they probably figured, well, we turn a blind eye to this and now it's more Somali votes for the Democrat machine that's continuing to keep this money flowing. So, you know, he can say don't call me the R word, but Trump's gonna keep calling him the R word. We're gonna talk to Isabel Brown here coming up in a moment. So stick around for that and much more. Team, a big hour three getting ready to send you off for the weekend. Stick around.

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