Hour 2 - Do The Obvious Thing

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 2 - Do The Obvious Thing

Date: March 23, 2026
Duration: ~45 mins (Content from 03:07–46:30)
Hosts: Clay Travis, Buck Sexton

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Overview

This episode zeroes in on two intertwined themes dominating the U.S. news cycle: the operational fallout of the ongoing federal government shutdown (focusing on unpaid TSA agents and creative solutions to airport chaos) and the dramatic, underreported drops in crime in major cities following federal law enforcement surges. Through data, listener calls, and anecdote, Clay and Buck argue for "doing the obvious thing"—a philosophy they identify as the core of "Trumpism"—and critique media and political failures to acknowledge or replicate successful policies.

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Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. TSA Agents, Shutdown Fallout, & ICE at Airports

• Unpaid TSA Agents and High Call-Out Rates
  • Clay recaps shockingly high absentee rates for TSA employees as a result of ongoing lack of pay caused by the government shutdown.
  • TSA call-out rates reported: BWI 38%, JFK 37.4%, Atlanta 41.5%, New Orleans 42.3%, among others.
    "This is to paycheck for years it was like money came in, paid rent, some money for food and gas and like that was it." – Clay Travis (03:07–06:10)
• Listener Linda’s Solution Goes National
  • Last Friday, Linda from Green Valley, AZ suggested deploying ICE agents to help at airports.
  • The idea was quickly adopted at the national level, with ICE agents seen managing lines at 13 airports within days.
  • Both hosts marvel at the speed, effectiveness, and simplicity of the solution, and at how a radio caller's idea became national policy.
• Media and Administrative Response
  • Both Clay and Buck lament that the credit for practical improvements is rarely given due to political and media bias.

2. Record Drops in Urban Crime After Federal Surges

• Extraordinary Data Out of D.C. and Memphis
  • D.C. murders: down 65% YoY
    Sex assaults: down 65% YoY
    Memphis: 25-year violent crime low
    "If you were the mayor of D.C. for a second term and brought down the murder rate 60%, that would be the number one thing you'd tell everybody." – Buck Sexton (09:17)
• Lack of Media Coverage
  • The hosts point out that when “Trump adjacent” policies yield dramatic positive results, the narrative is ignored or buried, even by many in conservative media.
  • "There is a bad news bias that is out there... That Washington D.C. homicides are down 65%, that sex assaults are down 65%, that Memphis is at a 25-year crime low, and oh by the way, that the country is at a 125 year low for murders? That is unbelievable.” – Clay Travis (09:17)
• “Trumpism” as Common-Sense Action
  • Both praise the philosophy of “doing the obvious thing”—deploying federal law enforcement, enforcing existing laws—over abstract theorizing or political posturing.
  • Buck details exactly how federal surges, more aggressive use of law enforcement, and application of existing statutes (e.g., drug and weapon offenses) were rapidly effective. "This is the genius of Trumpism: being willing to do the obvious thing that will make things better... Don't listen to all the squawking from talking heads who know nothing on TV." – Buck Sexton (14:23)

3. Political and Ideological Takeaways

• Embracing Results over Rhetoric
  • Clay and Buck argue that only results truly matter, highlighting a willingness to admit error if a new policy fails—a sentiment they feel is missing from the left.
  • "One of the best lessons you can get in management is just make a decision, right? Because if you're wrong, you can change the decision. If you're right, things get better." – Clay Travis (13:36)
• Conservatism vs. Progressivism: A Mindset Divide
  • Buck characterizes the conservative approach as rooted in real-world experience and learning from history, as opposed to “what feels good to say” or empowerment of the state to do everything.
  • “Conservative is based on applying the knowledge of history and experience... Liberals are what’s going to feel good to say right now. Leftists are what’s going to put the state in place of God.” – Buck Sexton (16:22)
• Credit and Political Incentives
  • Both hosts discuss the politics of credit, noting even Mayor Bowser of D.C. will benefit hugely from crime reductions delivered by Trump’s administration, despite initial criticism.

4. Listener Calls & Political Engagement

• Listener Feedback
  • Scott from Kentucky clarifies past on-air “wager” about stocks, gas, and clown suits, inspiring playful banter on the hosts’ betting accuracy (26:06–27:53).
  • Cynthia from Bakersfield speculates that Trump is intentionally shielding Linda from political blowback by taking credit for deploying ICE, a position the hosts find plausible (39:28–39:51).
  • Sandy from Memphis testifies to a noticeable improvement in city safety post-surge (41:13–41:30).
  • Callers suggest simply paying TSA workers as a solution (rejected as legally complex by Clay) and argue that replacing TSA with ICE agents only papers over political pain (43:03–43:39).
• The Power of Simple, Actionable Ideas
  • Clay urges listeners to distill their proposals, noting the dramatic impact when “obvious” ideas are succinct and actionable.

5. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote/Description | |------------|-------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 04:00 | Clay Travis | “I just would say... how many people out there could go a month without being paid and still pay bills? Most people can’t.” | | 07:52 | Buck Sexton | “If you were trying to become the mayor of D.C. for a second term... that would be the number one thing.” | | 14:23 | Buck Sexton | “This is the genius of Trumpism: being willing to do the obvious thing that will make things better.” | | 15:58 | Clay Travis | “We’re on pace for the lowest murder rate in Washington D.C. in recorded history in our 250th year.” | | 28:29 | Linda (caller) | “We live in an area with a lot of border patrol and Homeland Security employees... So thank you very much.”| | 29:03 | Buck Sexton | "Linda, I don’t know, maybe you just saved America. Like, maybe you just saved the country because you called into Clay and Buck..." | | 32:58 | Buck Sexton | “The Trump administration does not want you in long lines at the airports and is doing what it can, including being creative and thinking outside the box...” | | 41:13 | Sandy (caller from Memphis) | "Yeah, 100% way, way safer... Now it feels totally different downtown Memphis. Totally different." | | 43:59 | Clay Travis | “They’re going to start making arrests... and Democrats are going to lose their minds over this and they’re going to potentially go back to TSA.” |

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• TSA Call-Out Rates and Shutdown Fallout: 03:07–06:10
• Discussion of D.C. & Memphis Crime Drops: 06:10–10:55
• How Federal Law Enforcement Was Used to Reduce Crime: 11:34–13:36
• ‘Trumpism’ as ‘Doing the Obvious Thing’: 14:23–15:58
• Crime/Political Mindset Comparison: 16:22–18:02
• Listener Linda’s ICE Deployment Idea and Its Impact: 23:20–32:58
• Listener Calls (Scott/KY, Cynthia/CA, Sandy/Memphis, Jason/FL): 25:35, 39:28, 41:13, 43:03
• Speculation on Political Motives and Media Reaction: 29:03–30:41, 32:58–33:53
• Elon Musk Offers to Pay TSA Agents: 44:13–45:16

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Episode Takeaways

• The refusal to pay TSA agents during the shutdown is not just a political story but a worker crisis, with huge implications for travel and security.
• Ordinary citizens—like Linda—can spark real change; simple, practical, “obvious” ideas can cut through the bureaucracy when heard by a responsive leader.
• Trump’s willingness to “do the obvious thing” (e.g., federal surges to fight crime, deploying ICE to airports) is contrasted positively with what the hosts see as indecision or bad-faith narratives from the left and much of the media.
• There is a significant disconnect between the magnitude of recent crime drops and the mainstream coverage they receive, especially when linked to unpopular political figures.
• Political incentives often prevent credit where it’s due, but results, the hosts argue, speak for themselves.
• Listeners are encouraged to bring distilled, actionable ideas—because as Linda showed, you never know who’s listening.

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Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you. Our thanks to Linda from Green Valley, Arizona as her call on Friday has helped for there to be TSA agents deployed today. And Buck, as I'm starting off this hour, this just came across my Twitter feed. Listen to the call out rate from Sunday. These are TSA agents not showing up for work. Remember, they're not being paid BWI 38%. This is according by the way, to David Shepherdson, JFK 37.4% Pittsburgh 24.7% Philadelphia 24.2% LaGuardia in New York City 21.7% IAH in Houston, 39.1% Phoenix 20.3% New Orleans 42.3% and Atlanta 41.5%. So if you're wondering, hey, how did Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston and JFK, I bet things were awful at BWI too. I hadn't heard about bwi. The call out rate people aren't getting paid. They're getting frustrated. And some of these people I bet are doing second jobs because they have to pay. I just find this to be again, absolutely inexcusable that we're requiring the TSA agents to show up, not be paid. And by we, I mean Democrats. And so if you're looking at Polymarket for instance, they are projecting that the, the shutdown, the refusal to pay TSA agents is going to extend into April. So 67% chance this thing extends into April. So this is not going to get any better. And in fact, in many places it's probably going to get worse. And again, those call out rates are huge. But if you think about what's going on, people have kids, they have, they have the ability and responsibility to, it's like their job, their, their bills are, people are just like, okay, you don't have to pay your car payment, you don't have to pay rent, you don't have to pay $40,000 a year. Is the average TSA agent salary. And again, I just would say how many people out there you've been in this situation, I've been in this situation. Could go a month without being, without being paid and still be able to pay your bills. Most people can't. And so this is to paycheck for

[Buck Sexton]

years it was like money came in, paid rent, some money for food and gas and like that was it. So that's, you know, obviously you can run up credit card debt, but that's not a good idea.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I mean, and so it's a tough situation right now. ICE agents being deployed to try and make everything better. Buck, I talked about this yesterday or Friday on the program. You know, how, how you weren't here. So I want to hit you with these stats because DC does something interesting. They publish all of their, all of their data, their crime data online. And so you can look at it in real time. We're talking President Trump is in Memphis discussing the success that he's had driving down the overall rate of crime. This is an extraordinary data point is received hardly any attention. And I talked about it, remember? You well do, because we talked about it. What if what President Trump was doing on crime actually just worked, right? Everybody came out in D.C. and they said two things. They said, one, hey, well crime's not that bad. And you know, you're like, you're lying, right? You recognize. And then, and then some leftos, some legacy media even said, well, crime is pretty bad. And then they said crime's not bad. So they were willing to lie in D.C. secondly, they said, well, this is not going to work. Buck, we're. Trump is in Memphis, 25 year low on violent crime there as of this year compared to last year, murder right now is down 65% in Washington D.C. and sexual assault is down 65% compared to last year.

[Buck Sexton]

Can I just point this out? Those numbers are incredible. And the fact that this isn't. I'm even gonna, I'm gonna hit some of the conservative media on this or some of the Trump supporting media on this. Guys, where are you A little too much. Just sort of holding a microphone up to whatever Trump is saying and just going, oh, he's handling it all for us. Ok. Yeah, but you have massive news entities and people with big platforms out there who need to be getting this messaging out. Not just to the party faithful, not just to people that voted Trump three times, but get it out to the so called normies in the middle, just the everyday folks who don't pay very close. If you're listening to this show. You care about politics, you care about current events and you're, you're informed. That's just reality. You know, more than a vast majority of the people you come across at the grocery store, at the gas station, in the school pickup line, whatever, you know more than they do people because you listen to the show. You're welcome. Thank you for being with us. Of course. But Clay, there are all these people who have no idea what you're talking about with the numbers. They have never heard this before. They don't know it's a massive, massive win. If you were, if you were trying to become the mayor of D.C. for a second term, let's say, and you had brought down the crime rate 60% or the murder rate 60%, that would be the number one thing I think you would be telling everybody. Yes, Trump helped them do this and he's not even the mayor.

[Clay Travis]

And again, I just think this is so important. A lot of times when things go well, there is a failure to cover them because there is a bad news bias that is out there. And I think you're right. How many people out there in so called conservative media do you think have shared with their audience that Washington D.C. homicides are down 65%, that sex assaults are down 65%, that Memphis is at a 25 year crime low, and oh, by the way, that the country is at a 125 year low for murders? That is unbelievable. Buck, if you and I had come on, I always like to play this game. If you and I had come on and way overpromised and we had said, I think this Trump surge is going to work. This is a no brainer. Murders are going to drop 50% year over year. Everyone out there in legacy media would have grabbed our tweet or would have grabbed our sound sound bite and they would have dunked on us over how ridiculous that prediction was. In fact, we would have been undershooting by a significant degree how successful Trump's surge was. And by the way, why wouldn't this be replicated in every city with high crime in America? Imagine if to your point, Buck, imagine if we just grew used to allowing murder to happen because we weren't willing to do the things that were necessary to drive it down. How much different would America look like if murders dropped 60% in the next year?

[Buck Sexton]

Clay, this is reminding me actually of, of this moment from the first Trump administration when I was doing my show, but also something called Rising on Hill tv, which later became Breaking Points, which is now the Kristol and Sager show, which is a very big podcast. But I remember when I was doing that show, all these Democrats who hated Trump, this is first Trump administration. You know the argument I had to have with them over and over again on the show because this was around the kids in cages era and border security stuff. Right. You know what the argument was? Walls don't work. That was their talking point.

[Clay Travis]

Walls, I do remember that work, yes.

[Buck Sexton]

And you sit here, you're like, that is the dumbest thing. This is like saying water isn't wet. Of course walls work. Walls have worked for all of human history. They're not perfect, but you know, you wouldn't say like antibiotics don't work because they don't work 100%. Yeah, they work. It just, it was the dumbest talking point. And sure enough, it finally started to get out there because more and more people with border patrol would say, hey, you know, it actually helps us in this area. You don't have to have a wall over the entire border. Anyway, my point with this is let's look at what Trump did. Like they were saying walls don't work because they hate Trump and they were willing to take the dumbest position imaginable. Like they had figured something out that for all of human history we had been wrong on. OK, now look at what Trump did. In D.C. clay declared a crime emergency. Deployed National Guard and additional people. Forget this. Additional federal law enforcement agents. By the way, Director Cash Patel, who gets a lot of heat from the media on a lot of things. FBI has played a big role in this. Our friend Dan Bongino, when he was deputy director, he was pushing this big time, big role in this. This is the most important stuff. The FBI does get very bad, dangerous people off the streets. They had a massive surge in fugitive task force operations, essentially grabbing the guys that you've been trying to get for a long time. A massive surge in going after high profile criminal targets, using federal people. Forget this. Do you know any drugs? If you're a drug dealer, you're breaking federal law. Like it's actually a federal crime. It's not just a state crime. Even if you're just selling. And so federal resources can be. And there's a lot of crimes. If you're a drug dealer carrying a firearm as well as drugs to sell, that's a specific federal crime. That's an additional. I think it's a 10 year felony. You get hit with for that. Right. Because you're committing a felony and you're carrying an illegal firearm as a felon. So, Clay, there's all these things. Of course this brings the crime rate down. Like, do you see what I'm, do you see what I'm getting at?

[Clay Travis]

No, they're all obvious, they're all connected. But they told us crime wasn't bad. And oh, by the way, this is going to fail. And I just think results matter when you try something. And, and we said at the time, maybe it doesn't have any impact, really substantial at all, but at least you're trying to do something. One of the best lessons you can get in management is just make a decision, right? Because if you're wrong, you can change the decision. If you're right, things get better. And so failure to do things just keeps everything bad. You know, making choices and making a decision is actually so important. And I give credit, I think it ties in with Linda's call. President Trump's like, yeah, why don't we just put ice in airports? We can do things the obvious.

[Buck Sexton]

This is the genius of Trumpism is being willing to do the obvious thing that will make things better. It's really that simple. Do the obvious thing. Don't listen to all the squawking from a talking heads who know nothing on TV or for that matter, a lot of them on podcasts and radio. Like, do the obvious thing to, There is a fire. You have a bucket of water. Don't listen to the people who say, well, sometimes water can make the fire worse. What if there are chemicals in that fire? No, throw the bucket of water on the fire. Make things better. This is the fundamental genius of Trumpism in action. Do the obvious thing that will work. And sure enough, here we are once again. We see pouring water on a fire usually, you know, 99% of the time makes the fire less bad or puts it out. And I, you know, Clay, I knew this was going to work in D.C. because, and I told you this, I think I mentioned on the show, I have a friend who is Democrat, very good friend of mine, has very good connections into the D.C. mayor's office. That's all I'll say. And he's like, oh, no, she, she knows this is, she's not, she's not going to be all out in front saying, I love Trump, but she's happy that the crime rate's going to go down because you know who looks, you know who looks like one of the best mayors in the country right now? Muriel Bowser of D.C. it's true. Look at the numbers she takes. She gets Trump has handed her the best crime drop numbers of any mayor, like since Giuliani in the 90s in New York. And all she had to do was not be a total maniac who did everything in her power to undermine. And by the way, she did criticize it. I'm not saying that, but.

[Clay Travis]

And we're on pace for the lowest murder rate in Washington D.C. in recorded history in our 250th year anniversary of the country's founding. That seems. Look, Trump gets the symbolism of that. And you can't have a great country if your capital isn't safe. I just, I would stand by that no matter what country you're in.

[Buck Sexton]

You know, Clay, also, this is where I think the conservative mind and the liberal mind or the leftist mind, progressive, whatever, they change the terms because over time people realize how bad they are, so they have to keep cycling. Notice I've been a conservative mind. We've never gone, oh, I'm not conservative. No, no. But it's because conservative is based on. It's applying the knowledge of history and experience to try to make good decisions today. Liberals are what's going to feel good to say right now. Leftists are what's going to put the state in place of God and empower it to do everything for me so I don't have to do anything. But, you know, you look at these things, you look at the way this plays out and this should be so obvious to everyone. If we were wrong about something, if putting blue light, you know, those idea. Do you have those on your campus, Clay? They had these things like, yeah, you

[Clay Travis]

could hear the thing and it would immediately set off. Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

To me, it's like, well, in an era of cell phones, you know, do you really even, you know, what's the deal? You have a cell phone, everyone has a cell phone on. But if putting blue lights up all over a city or something brought the murder rate down 60%, I'd be like, well, I was wrong. I want less murders, rapes and robberies. Let's put up more. Like, I would admit that there was something that they're not admitting that what Trump has done has saved lives and saved countless people from being the victims of violent crimes.

[Clay Travis]

All you have to do. I just went directly to the Washington D.C. data center. It's the easiest research for anyone on the planet to do. No one is talking about it. And again, when things are going well and Trump is involved at all, the reason you hear nothing, because Trump is partly responsible for things going well, they won't cover it interesting.

[Buck Sexton]

Mariel Bowser of D.C. by the way, not running for a fourth term. She's going to go do something else. You know what she's going to do? She's going to go into the private sector and she's going to be giving lectures for, you know, 50 to $100,000 a pop about how to turn around the crime situation in D.C. just watch. Just watch.

[Clay Travis]

Probably you're right. You're probably right.

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[Clay Travis]

Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We will take some of your calls. 800-282-2882. Welcome, welcome. I would love to hear from Linda from Green Valley, Arizona because she is partially responsible for ICE agents being at the airport today. Maybe entirely responsible. Cut 27 Fox News reporter Madison Scarpino in Atlanta. Seeing these ICE agents out here today managing lines, helping with crowd control just like border czar Tom Homan said they would.

[Caller]

Here's a look at them this morning.

[Clay Travis]

And again, the lines have been a little bit better the last few hours, but still unusually long as TSA workers continue to go without pay.

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton show. Okay, we're gonna go take a couple of calls. Linda in Green Valley, Arizona has called in. She couldn't get through so she has given us a talk back. I will play that for you momentarily. But first, quickly, Dan. He says he's in an unidentified blue state. Dan, fire away. Good job, Dan. Hang up on Dan Scott in Georgetown, Kentucky. Please leave the phone lines clear for our good friend Linda Scott in Georgetown, Kentucky

[Caller]

hello, gentlemen. I've been listening. I've been a Republican my whole life. I'm 64 years old. A year ago in March, one of you two guys said these tariffs are the way to go and if they've not gone down by September, last September, then I'll go wear a clown suit. They're higher now than they were then. Where's the clown suit at? You got to be truthful to the people.

[Clay Travis]

Well, we didn't say that. I will put everybody on transcript review. Scott, I think what you might remember is I said I would wear a clown outfit on Piers Morgan show if the stock market was lower. When everybody was panicked in April and last year and everybody was suing, I said if the stock market is lower. I think I said in a year or maybe it was 18 months. I don't remember exactly. The stock market is up about 40% since that in April. So that was the discussion point. Thanks for the call. If you want to go back and review the transcripts, I think the only time I talked, I don't think it was a clown suit. I think I said I would wear a clown face or clown makeup or something like that. You only get to see like a part of my, you know, upper body. A suit wouldn't make a lot of sense.

[Buck Sexton]

Clay is very dialed in whenever it comes to any bet situation. I can tell you that. That is if he's making any sort of wager, he's paying attention.

[Clay Travis]

So producer Ali has written it down. She's on it. Buck. The date is by October 7, 2026. I said that I will wear a clown nose on the program. That is by October 7, 2026, if the stock market is not up and if gas prices are not lower. That was in April of 2025. The stock market is up huge. I think gas prices even now are down from where they were back then. But I'm feeling good about that wager. But again, on October 7, 2026, I'll be here with a clown nose. If I am wrong, that's when I told you all to buy stocks in April and that things would be going well, I'm very confident that that that's going to be a good position, if nothing else.

[Buck Sexton]

If you've spent your time listening to us for these five years and you didn't panic, sell your retirement fund at the beginning of the Trump administration. Definitely financially worth your time, everyone.

[Clay Travis]

No doubt.

[Buck Sexton]

I think if you would listen to that one, that one bit of advice from Clay and Buck World worth all worth all the hours you've spent with us.

[Clay Travis]

So here is Linda. She couldn't get through. So again, we're trying to clear the phone line so Linda can call in after the huge impact she has. This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona, reacting to her Friday call that has changed American policy. Listen.

[Caller]

Good morning, Clay and Buck. This is Linda from Green Valley, Arizona. I've been listening. I tried to call in, but couldn't get in. So just wanted to let you know that this was my own idea. We live in an area with a lot of border patrol and Homeland Security employees, and we live south of Tucson, where the mayor is terrible with all of this kind of stuff. So thank you very much. Bye.

[Clay Travis]

All right, so that is Linda. Please leave the phone lines. I'd like to hear from Linda. Here's some fun.

[Buck Sexton]

Can we just weigh in on the Linda thing real quick? Yeah, I think she's totally right. I think this was her idea. Clay, you and I, you, you even more so. You're like living in the Matrix 24. 7. But we're scanning and talking and looking at what's going on with all the conversation, politically, online and everywhere else. Sometimes someone will think that they came up with something. And I'm like, I've already seen that in 10 other places because it's a pretty straightforward idea. This is not that. Until this came up on this show, I had seen not a peep about this anywhere in the online or otherwise media ecosystem. So I. I totally think. Linda, Linda, I don't know. Maybe you just saved America. Like, maybe you just saved the country because you called into Clay and Buck and you had been listening. So there is that.

[Clay Travis]

It's a truly original idea. And even cnn, I just retweeted it. Brian Stelter is covering it, and he went and looked. The only reason I talked about it, you know this. Probably the audience doesn't necessarily know this. We don't choose our topics when we go on television. So. So people out there are like, you know, we choose the topics here on this show. But when you go on as a television guest, they. They are like, hey, we're going to have you talking about X or Y. I wasn't even necessarily 100% certain what the topics were on Friday. So it's not like I planned it, but I did want to give. I. The only regret I have on Fox News is I wish that I had remembered Linda's name. I couldn't remember exactly what the caller's name was, so that was on me. But I didn't want to even take credit for the idea because I thought such a good one. So I said in that clip and we'll play it for you again at the top of the next hour. Hey, this was one of our callers on Clay and Buck, and then it went viral from there.

[Buck Sexton]

So I, I gotta tell you that when I saw this and I was in the car driving up to. It's a long drive, by the way, driving from Miami up to Ponte Vedra, and I feel like I'm gonna become Ponte Vedra Real Estate Salesman of the year. Because I really, I was just like, this place is amazing.

[Clay Travis]

It's great.

[Buck Sexton]

But as I'm driving, as I'm driving up Clay and Lyn and, and I'm seeing all the stuff on my phone about, about Linda. I didn't hear the call initially. And I just remember thinking, I'm like, is this light and ever was that Everyone thought this, is this light them up Linda? Because we had Light him up Linda with the drug cartel boats. We're like, what should be done? She's like, take them out.

[Caller]

Blow them up.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, they're floating, not floating anymore. Take them out. You know, And I was like, did. Light him up, Linda. Just light up a cigarette and go. You know what we do, we deploy ice to the airports, you know, but apparently this is Arizona, Linda. Different Linda.

[Clay Travis]

So both sides of the country covered with excellent Linda callers. So, so, yeah, like, again, I think this is an example. Now what this is going to encourage, Buck, is a lot of people give us manifestos anytime we have like a public event, people are super nice, they show up and they're like, hey, here's my 400 page treatise on why the commerce clause is being misapplied based on the original meaning of the Constitution. Thank you. Like, I, I would love your 400 page treatise on the commerce clause. It's hard for me to get through that. If you can distill an idea down simply and say, hey, why don't we do this again? When, when the caller put it forward, I was like, hey, you know what? This makes an awful lot of sense. And, and it resonated with me. And obviously it resonated in the White House too, because I don't think there's any way to be fair. I understand President Trump and he deserves credit for everything because ultimately it's his administration. Do you think it's coincidental that on, on Friday night I referenced this idea from Linda and by Saturday morning, the idea of deploying ice agents was happening? Now, where I give the President a tremendous amount of credit is it's Monday and they're in 13 airports. Yeah, he moves fast. Usually you can't get the government to do anything. We got people in 13 airports, hopefully helping people get through TSA.

[Buck Sexton]

I would also note on this that at a minimum, and it is already helping a bit, but at a minimum, it shows to anyone who is paying attention in this country that the Trump administration does not want you in long lines at the airports and is doing what it can, including being creative and thinking outside the box to help travelers get to their spring break destinations, get to, you know, their, their, an Ethel's house for the, for the weekend, whatever it may be, work. People have to go to places for their jobs. Trump is trying to fix problems. Democrats make problems. I mean, that's, I think one of the biggest takeaways from this or should be, especially because this is an election year. Democrats are willing to manufacture problems and create pain for Americans so they can lie about who's causing the pain and try to win votes based on that. That's the game. They light the fire and they're like,

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

Here's one thing that I will try to do, by the way. I'm going to try to get Linda an autographed Trump hat. I think we could probably make that happen. I could probably reach out. I think Linda had such a good idea. I bet President Trump would like to sign a hat for her. I am quite confident, Buck, that you and I can, can manage to make that happen. So if Linda will either call back or she can give us a talk back with her actual contact. We will not play your contact information on the, on the national radio, but that will allow us to be able to, to, to get back in touch with you easier. In the meantime, I want to tell you all about LifeLock and what a tremendous difference they can make. Every day you hear about somebody else's information leaking. Guess what newest leak, Aura not to be confused with the ring Company, identity protection company got hit with the data breach. 900,000 records exposed. Company reports an employee fell for a hack attack. And if the breach impacts you, don't wait. Still time to stay one step ahead of any online identity threats coming your way. Rely on LifeLock. They monitor hundreds of millions of data points a second for identity threats and alert you right away if anything pops up. Not all identity protection is the same. LifeLock will protect you and notify you when your information ends up inevitably hacked online. Join now. Save 40% off your first year with my name Clay as the promo code. That's 1-800-LIFELOCK. You can also head to lifelock.com promo code Clay for 40% off. That's 1-800-lifelock. Lifelock.com promo code Clay For 40% off

[Buck Sexton]

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[Buck Sexton]

here to Clay and Buck. We got a caller. Cynthia in Bakersfield, California would like to chat with us. What's going on?

[Caller]

Cynthia hey, I'm calling from California and I wanted to say that President Trump is trying to protect Linda from Arizona by taking the credit. Not that he doesn't want to give her credit, but he doesn't want Democrats to come at her and say, oh, look what you did and you know, have problems.

[Clay Travis]

Could be, I think also, I mean, look, ultimately the responsibility of decision making, obviously the executive authority rests with Trump. Buck I also think he's probably sensitive enough to the idea of, hey, callers can impact the direction of the President of the United States to understand that there can be attacks come that way, if that. But again, I see it as a positive because what it represents is the President is willing to consider ideas no matter where they come from. If they're good ideas and they make sense. It can be a caller to a radio show, it can be somebody who's working on his team. It can be somebody out there talking on television. If there are good ideas, Trump is open to accepting and adopting them. The thing that's most impressive to me about all of this is we can Go from the president never saying it to a statement on Saturday morning to by Monday, there are ICE agents in 13 different airports trying to help the TSA, which is hugely overwhelmed. And, and, and I think that is all kind of being set up in general. We got a couple of other callers, Sandy, out in Memphis. Let me before you give your take here, do you feel Memphis is safer now than it was before the surge happened? The president's in your town right now.

[Caller]

Yeah, 100% way, way safer. I mean, I live in the outskirts of Memphis and suburbs, but when I hated going downtown, my husband go to the grizzly game and I'd freak out about him being safe. And now it feels totally different downtown Memphis. Totally different.

[Clay Travis]

That's a hugely impactful. And again, we've shared some of that data. We'll play some of that audio for you in the third hour. Now, you wanted to talk about something else?

[Caller]

Yeah, I have a great idea, another great idea to solve the TSA problem. Just go ahead and pay those people because here's the deal. They pay them what? The only recourse the Democrats have is to sue the government. What Democrat is going to sue the government based on paying TSA agents and their constituents the wrath of the constituents? They would never do that. So it's a win. Win. They get paid. And the Democrats, too bad you suck it up because you're not going to go against that.

[Clay Travis]

Thank you. I don't disagree with that in general. The problem is Congress authorizes the money to be able to be paid. And if Congress doesn't authorize the money, the courts are going to say the president can't distribute it. Now, I think it's an interesting question. If the president declares an emergency, could the president declare some sort of emergency under his authority as President of the United States to pay TSA workers? That might be a little bit more of a legal uncertainty. But remember, all of these judges are lining up to try to strike down everything Trump does. So if it is the otherwise power of the purse resides with the legislature, then the president trying to say I'm going to spend this money without legislative authority becomes a challenge, which is how all this started. Let's see.

[Buck Sexton]

Jason in Tampa. Yeah, Jason in Tampa.

[Caller]

Hello.

[Buck Sexton]

You're on.

[Caller]

Can you hear me? Hi, Ken. I don't agree. Yes. I don't agree that I should be filling in. Because what all they're doing is they're taking the pain away from regular people. But the TSA agents are the ones that are really suffering. They should leave it as is and make the Democrats come to the table to fix the problem. This way, the TSA agents are basically just being replaced by scrubs so that regular travelers are happy.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, thank you for the call. I think the premise of Linda's position, and I think this is going to become apparent in the days ahead if this continues as it's forecast to do with polymarket, is they're going to start making arrests and Democrats are going to lose their minds when ICE starts to arrest people at the airports.

[Buck Sexton]

And I know people are going to say, oh, but they're going to know. And they're not going to, oh, no, no, people are going to show up at the airports for a while, at least. They're not, they're not all going to. The word is not out. They're not all listening to Clay and Buck out there in illegal fleeing felon world.

[Clay Travis]

So there are going to be. I'm just, just wait for it. They're going to start making arrests at the airport and Democrats are going to lose their minds over this and they're going to potentially go back to tsa. Because again, I think this is the premise of Linda's idea that is so great. One, it can make things better. Two, it drives Democrats so crazy that they end up deciding they're going to fund tsa. We should also mention another thing that came out on Saturday. I believe it was Saturday morning. Buck was Elon Musk said he would just pay the TSA agents himself, which I'm sure Democrats are going to end up arguing against because again, it goes to how the allocated funds exist. But I think that also kind of paints them into a corner because they try to say, oh, rich people never do anything. They're, they're just sucking, you know, the, the, their scum. That's the, you know, kind of Elizabeth Warren perspective. There should never be billionaires, I think is what she would say. Well, what if Elon Musk is way better at paying government workers than others are? I think that is. That's pretty intriguing.

[Buck Sexton]

You know why Bernie Sanders had to stop railing on the millionaires and the billionaires? Because Bernie is a millionaire with three houses. So if the millionaires are so bad, why is Bernie a millionaire? So it's only billionaires now that get hit.

[Clay Travis]

It is very funny that he started to defend. The only thing he ever defended Hillary Clinton on was getting paid for speeches. Do you remember that? When Bernie was like, now, now, now she has a right to make a living because he was getting paid.

[Buck Sexton]

That's what the market will bear for an excellent speech.

[Clay Travis]

And he started to sell a bunch of a bunch of books and he got rich and suddenly he was fine with it. All right, we will dive back into some of your calls. We'll continue to try to leave some phone lines open for Linda, although every line is ringing simultaneously, meaning that a lot of you are not listening to me when I say, please let Linda be able to reach the program. And we will break down more on the latest in Iran as President Trump is speaking in Memphis and the President just said, buck, we got a funny cut on this that in addition to trying to solve crime in Memphis, he's going to do what a lot of people do when they visit Memphis. He's headed to Graceland. We'll discuss next.

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