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Welcome back in hour number two. Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We are monitoring the soon to be press conference from the FBI about an arrest in the D.C. pipebomb case. We will keep you updated that in D.C. as well. We are joined now by Secretary Sean Duffy, I am headed to D.C. a little bit later this afternoon for the big event at the Kennedy center tomorrow with the World cup coming to the United States, it is going to be an incredible scene. I know there are many different things that you are working on on a variety of different arenas every single day, but this is a fun one. Secretary Sean Duffy with us right now. What should we know about this big event that is starting in June and will officially be laid out bracket style to a large extent tomorrow?
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So first off, when you I imagine you're flying here, you're not driving. So hopefully your flight is going to be not delayed on time. You're going to be, you know, perfect airtime.
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Yes.
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I can't control the weather. But beyond that, hopefully you're in a good place. Listen, so this is exciting. So tomorrow we'll have thousands of people, including yourself, at the Kennedy Center. I'm going to be there as well. But a billion people tune in for the draw around the world to see, you know, what team is going to play, what team, where it's going to be, you know, fantastic. Donald Trump is going to be there. The president of Mexico is going to be there as well. So that's really exciting. And as we look to the summer, again, we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Exciting. And the World cup is going to come. There'll be 11 million people that fly into the country to watch the games. And again, from my perspective, why is DOT involved? Well, were one of the most important aspects. So not only welcoming foreign travelers into the country, working with Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio to make it a seamless experience, but then they're flying between host cities. They're taking trains, buses, and then in the cities making sure the transit actually works, buses, rail cars, tracks to make sure that we get all of these spectators into the facilities and then back out again. Do it safely, do it seamlessly. This is our opportunity to showcase America on our great birthday. And so listen, we've been working for.
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Nine months on this thing to make sure that all of our teams are working together and resources and assets are deployed to make sure it's a great experience for what is going to be a global event.
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What kind of money, Secretary Duffy, does this bring into the country? What are some of the estimates about the economic activity and just all of that side of things?
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I don't have those numbers. But listen, this is billions of dollars that come in. You fill up hotels, you fill up planes, restaurants, and then, you know, there's time between, you know, each of the matches. So there's an opportunity for foreigners who might be coming to America for the first time to go out and see our beautiful country. A lot of places to go, check out and tour as you're waiting for the next match. So, again, many billions of dollars, this is going to impact the country. And so it's. That part of. It's huge. By the way, can I tell. Donald Trump loves sports, right? Whether he's going, you know, to basketball, football, but so not as we have. We have the World cup going on during the 250th birthday. He has a UFC cage match, first time at the White House, going on as well. So it's going to be a lot of fun, but a huge economic revenue driver for the country. And by the way.
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You have people coming in to watch soccer, but, you know, who knows how many times they come back to go. This was a great experience in America. And I think here's the problem. We have a lot of people around the world who have said, am I welcome to come to America? They've seen that people have overstayed their visas or they've come here illegally and we've tried to deport them. We've taken those who haven't come lawfully, we've sent them out. That doesn't mean we don't want people to come. Of course we want people to come. We want them to come the right way and come and visit and come and see all we have to offer and then follow our rules. And there's a timeline in which they get their visas and, you know, which will be well after the games have ended and they can head home. But so now we want people to.
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Come.
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For people who don't know. And I've been doing my research on this because I turn into a pretty decent soccer fan every four years because I'm a big sports fan. There are 104 games, I believe, that are going to be played. We're talking Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The vast majority of those games gonna be played in the United States. And there are now 48 teams that are going to, that are gonna be involved in the World Cup. They've expanded it from 32. Tomorrow we will find out which of the 12 groups of four the United States is in, among other countries. Do you know what President Trump's role is going to be tomorrow? It's taking place at the Kennedy Center. This is, in many ways a Trump production. Fox Sports is gonna be putting it on like you said, I'll be there. There'll be a ton of us there. What do you know about the event tomorrow?
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So I'll get to that in a second. But again, there's. There's 16 host cities. 11 are in the United States. We are the main. The main host. And so it's going to be a big production. Again, I'm going as well. I, I hear it's like red carpet and everyone's coming in and it's the production value. And by the way, no one produces events like this better than Donald Trump. I think he's maybe a master of ceremonies, going to address the crowd, you know, before the draws happen. And again, he's the most famous person in the world. And to be there, lending his name, the presidency, to this great event, I think makes it that much more exciting and interesting. But again, the world tunes in because they're excited to see, you know, what group they're going to be in, you know, who they're going to play and do I have an easy bracket, a hard bracket, you know, what are, you know, what's, what's my prospects now for my team to prevail in the World Cup? So, again, the details. I'm showing up. Buck, you probably know more than. I mean, Clay, you know more than I do. I'm coming, but I don't know. I'm. I'm just, I'm bringing my scarf and I'm going to be there and I'm going to enjoy the festivities and pick it up like you will.
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Secretary Sean Duffy with us now, Secretary of Transportation. And I'm sure this is your favorite question, Mr. Secretary. I'm sure that everywhere you go, when everyone realizes who you are and they start asking, what's up?
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My favorite question is a bad lead up to the.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, I. Oh, trust me. So how are we doing with the whole fixing air traffic control and making planes go on time? Mr. Secretary? You know, this is something near and dear to everybody who flies all over the country's heart. And I'm sure people ask you, I'm sure you get asked at the Thanksgiving table, you get asked in the airport when you're flying, what's going on with it.
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No, better. Better yet, anyone who has my cel, when they're delayed, I get attacks.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like, hey, I'm delayed. I'm an hour delayed. Like, come on. I'm like, very special text. Thank you for sending that to me. No, so I appreciate the question. So I laid out. Oh, shoot. Six months ago, how old and antiquated. Our air traffic control system is, and it is. We're using, you know, some iteration of 1960s, 70s, 80s equipment software from the 90s. And so I was given $12.5 billion in the big beautiful bill. It's a big deal, It's a lot of money. I need another 20 billion. But with that 12 and a half billion dollars we've already started. So, you know, we have copper, we have to transition to fiber. We've already completed over 30% of those transitions since I got the money from the big beautiful bill. Now that doesn't mean because I have fiber, I've switched from analog to digital. That's another step we're going to announce later today. We're going to pick an integrator that's going to run the whole operation. We'll have one paycheck to write, one throat to choke. The mission is don't break the national airspace, number one. And number two, make sure that you deliver this on time, which is by the end of 2028. So we have a three year window, new radios, new radars, new voice switches and all new telecom. That's the foundation that we build off of. We need a new software system. Once I get the money for that, I'll be able to start developing, debugging and then deploying it. That's what's going to really change the way the airspace works. And so if you look forward five, 10 years, we're going to double, triple the capacity of the use of our airspace. We have, we have drones, we have these evitals, the Ubers in the air. You might have seen videos of those. More air travel.
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I got to jump in on this because I just saw something about the Miami Palm beach corridor. So that really piqued my interest. Are we going to have air taxis on certain routes during this Trump administration's term, Is that going to happen?
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100%. 100%. And I think they're safer and quieter and cheaper than a helicopter. So, yeah, no, that's. You're going to move people more seamlessly through the airspace with, with these air taxis, to use that phrase. And yes, the airspace aviation really hasn't changed in the last 70 years. 80 years.
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With drone deliveries, you're going to be able to get a hot cup of coffee, your door dash, a delivery if you forgot something at the grocery store or you need medicine. Three and a half to five pound deliveries going to change the way products are delivered. The way we move with these air taxes, it's fairly inexpensive and they Move seamlessly through the airspace, giving you access from one neighborhood to a city location, or you look at again, the east coast of Florida. Moving people along that corridor, really, I think critical going to change the way that people can live in that part of the country. And then we also have autonomous vehicles on the horizon as well. That's going to change the way people move as well, how they purchase cars, how our systems are safer. And our job is to make sure that. I call it my Goldilocks theory. We can't have regulations that go too fast because if bad things happen, we get setback. If I go too slow, the innovators will go to places like China, and then China will send us Chinese technology. And you don't want Chinese technology on an autonomous vehicle in your drones or in your Evitals. They'll gather a ton of information. It's a national security play. So we have to get it just right. The porridge has to be just right. And that's what we're trying to accomplish now. But you're going to see these the next three years. You're going to have access to all of these.
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New opportunities in aviation and in autonomous vehicles. One last thing, boom technology for supersonic flight, it used to be over just water technology now will allow you to fly over land. And that boom will ricochet off the atmosphere and not hit the ground. So you can have those fast flights without having windows break somewhere in Missouri.
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That's super interesting too, because I've been seeing that they want people remember the Concord and how quickly you could go from the east coast to Europe and, you know, four hours, five hours, best case. Now, this new boom technology that you're talking about, I've been reading about it, it would theoretically could become standard in the next generation where you could get to Europe, you could fly across the Atlantic in four hours and it could become much more standard. One, one question for you as you, as you go out and we appreciate the time. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy with us Air traffic controllers. There are. There have been a huge story surrounding the number of them meritocracy, the talents of them. We got a ton of people out there listening right now. Kids, grandkids. How many more air traffic controllers do we need? What should people out there who are interested in these jobs and believe they have the talents be doing? And how do we get to the point where we have a depth? So if we get guys who were sick or gals who are sick, we don't have to worry about different airport air traffic areas Being shut down, which discombobulates, obviously, travel nationwide.
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So, give or take, I'm about 2,000 short. I have increased the capacity of throughput in the academy, where we train our air traffic controllers by 20% this year. I've asked experienced controllers not to retire. I'm paying them 20% upfront cash bonuses to not retire, to stay on the job, to try to close that gap. But if you're 20 years old, you have two years of work experience, and you want to be an air traffic controller, you're smart. You can take our entrance exam. And again, sometimes, if you're a painter, if you're a mechanic, there's no rhyme or reason of what makes a good air traffic controller. But we test you for it. You come in. Our academy is four months. You come out. Depending on where you're placed, it could take a year to three years to get certified. But these guys are making. They're making really good money and doing a really important service to the country. So we're looking for smart young men and women that want to come into this industry. And again, it pays well and you're providing the safety of the traveling public. So we have a plan to close the gap. Technology can help us, too. But you saw what happened during the shutdown, and you had air traffic controllers that weren't being paid, and they were having some hard times putting food on the table. They were, you know, driving Uber and waiting tables. I mean, you can't have that. So we have to think through hard problems that the last administration didn't want to take up. They didn't want to consider. There's no hard problem in this department that we aren't grappling with, trying to fix. And by the way, there was no plan to fix this one. We are fixing this and going to make it better for the American people.
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Secretary Duffy, look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Should be an awesome event at the Kennedy center. And appreciate the good work. And everybody out there, you just heard it. There's lots of great jobs, air traffic control that you can be searching out for those kids and grandkids. Appreciate you, man.
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Thanks, gents. Have a good one.
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Here to Clay and Buck. We're going to be joined by Congressman Steve Scalise. He's the House majority leader in just a few minutes. A lot to talk to him about. And we also are monitoring very closely this FBI press conference where they're discussing the arrest of the alleged January 5th pipe bomber.
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Right.
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It was right before January 6th. So we've got all of that. Also, a lot of talk backs coming in and wanted to hear from you with those. Here is a listener from Melbourne, Florida. DD Hit it.
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Hey, Clay and Buck. I am from Woodbridge, Virginia, a transplant now to living in Melbourne, Florida. But Woodbridge is not a high end area at all. It was when I was growing up there, but it got run down with illegals and it is a disaster. That's why I left.
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House looks really nice. I don't know specifically about Woodbridge. I remember we lived in D.C. a lot of northern Virginia is very nice, high end, expensive area. And the home that this person is in certainly looked, certainly looked nice. By the way. This is funny. Let's have some fun here. This is Eric in Tucson. He's got a take on Linda.
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Hey guys. Love the show. I just want to say, Linda is the American version of Ivan Drago from Rocky. If he dies, he dies.
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Great.
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Linda might even be more hardcore than that. She's like, if he's not died, he will die.
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Kill him.
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Kill him.
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Nuke him. Yeah, you. I like the Colonel Jessup. Linda Jessup there, one of the great all time scenes. A few good men.
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It's true.
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Older you get Jessup maybe not that actually of a bad guy.
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Not really. Not really that. Yeah, that's a whole other conversation. You know, I think he got, I think he got rough stuff in Raw Deal.
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Welcome back in Clay. TRAVIS BUCK SEXTON SHOW Rolling through the Thursday edition of the program, we're back with to D.C. to talk to House Majority Leader Steve Scalise. We got a bunch of topics to hit with him, but let's start with this. We're awaiting the press conference from the FBI on the arrest of the pipe bomber in January of 2021. You, as we were talking about earlier on the program, Congressman, have seen firsthand the consequences of political violence. And unfortunately the number of political related violence issues seem like they are accelerating. Is that the sense that you have and, and, and how would you assess where we are right now in terms of the temperature, the danger and the violence that that unfortunately typifies too much of our conversation, it feels like politically today.
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Yeah.
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Well, first, Clay and Buck, thank you for having me. And, you know, it's. It's sad to see that politics today has gotten so toxic in terms of, you know, we all have disagreements, and, I mean, our country has always celebrated the fact that we don't all think alike, and we can express those differences in a free and open society. And you know what? If you and I disagree, you can vote against me at the ballot every two years. We settle our differences at the ballot box. And for anybody to think that political violence is okay, it's not. And, yes, I've seen it firsthand. You know, we still see it more and more lately, and it's got to stop. I mean, you know, Charlie Kirk's assassination, you know, was just another example, but it's far from an isolated case. And, you know, the pipe bombing, I mean, it's sad that it took this long. I mean, it took years to figure it out. But I'm glad. I applaud the FBI for staying on the case and for finally, you know, making an arrest, because, you know, he intended. Luckily, wasn't successful, but he intended to blow up a building. I mean, this is insane.
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Congressman Scalise, appreciate you being with us here. What are some of the key things that you think can get done before Congress goes into recess? What is your. What's your focus, as we're rounding up here? The end of the year in 2025.
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Yeah. You know, as we're in the beginning of December, still a lot more we want to do by the end of this year, in just the next few weeks. You know, we're in the middle of putting together a bill on healthcare that'll lower healthcare costs for families. You know, I was in a meeting this morning with the Doctor's Caucus. We have a caucus of medical doctors who serve in Congress who have some great ideas. I've been meeting with other members over the last few weeks, and we've put together a package of bills, and we're going to ultimately bring this to the floor soon. I don't even know exactly when, in the next probably two weeks. We're building consensus, and once we have that consensus, you're going to see a series of bills this month in December on the House floor to lower healthcare costs. And I'm not talking about just shoveling hundreds of billions more dollars and into the Affordable Care act that has not been working for families. I mean, since that law passed, you know, what's known as Obamacare, you've seen an increase in premiums on families by 80%. So clearly the Affordable Care act has been anything but affordable. What we want to do is give families options. You know, allow you to do things like pooling together association health plans so that small businesses can pull together and get the buying power of a large company so that those premiums cost a lot less. Things like health Savings Accounts where you can, even if you're in an ACA plan right now, you're only trapped in that plan. How about if we let families have the flexibility to where you can take that existing money and move it to a plan that's better for your family? If you find a plan that has a lower deductible cost, a lower monthly premium, you should be able to go and buy that plan just like you got. You buy, you know, you look on tv, you've got all these commercials for car insurance and other products that are fighting for your dollar because there's competition right now in health insurance. You don't have competition because the marketplace is really focused on forcing everybody into the unaffordable Care Act. We want to make that more flexible so families have options to lower their premiums. And we'll be bringing those bills to the floor in the next few weeks.
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By the way, press conference has started with the FBI. We are monitoring it. Attorney General Pam Bondi addressing the arrest right now.
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And by the way, there are other, there are a lot of other bills. I'm sorry to jump in again, but you did ask a broader question about what are we doing the rest of this month. That's one important package we're going to be bringing. We're bringing a number of other bills. We've got some housing affordability bills that are going to be going through committee next week and the Financial Services Committee that come into the House floor. We this month probably we've got some other bills that are focused on lowering costs in other areas. We've done a lot on energy production, on taxes, so that nobody has tax increases. But we also help no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. So a lot of blue collar workers are going to be able to get really big benefits in terms of more money in their paychecks. You know, we're working on other things that will lower inflation, lowering interest rates. You know, so we're bringing bills on all of those fronts. In addition to the normal appropriations process. We're bringing what's called the National Defense Authorization act, hopefully next week, the bill that sets all the priorities for a nation's defense very important bill Usually a very bipartisan bill. Hopefully that's going to be on the floor next week. So we're doing a lot of different things all at the same time, but really important things for families.
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Pam Bondi, by the way, this cold case languished four years until Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino came to the FBI. No new tips, no new witnesses, just good diligent work. That is Attorney General Pam Bondi on the pipe bomber arrest. Last question for you. I know, Congressman, there was hope that there was going to be a SCORE act passed as it had to do with college athletics that has now been shelved as it's continuing to be worked on. You are in Louisiana. Congrats on Lane Kiffin for people out there. And a huge majority of our audience is this our college sports fans, what are you guys trying to do and what's the latest you can tell us on that act?
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Yeah, and I still want to see us bring this bill to the floor because it's important to anybody who loves college athletics, you know, me included. I know you do. In many people, millions around the country have seen over the last few years, it's become the wild, wild west. And why is that? It's because through a lot of things, lawsuits that the NCAA has lost and other things, there is no ability for schools to enforce their own rules anymore. You know, and whether they come together and get behind the NCAA or some other organization, that's not what Congress is dictating. What Congress is going to try to do is say, hey, the schools can actually go and enforce their own rules again in college athletics. And oh, by the way, we also in the SCORE act put in protections for student athletes that don't exist today. You know, whether or not students get paid, that issue has already been decided. But right now there are no real protections for the students who are getting paid. For example, agents, you've got kids 16, 17 years old in high school getting approached by agents with contracts that they I'm sure they're not getting teams of attorneys to read. They might be signing their rights away for 10 years when they sign some deal in high school. We put guardrails there so that the students get real protection so that it limits how much an agent can even get in fees from the student athlete. We protect the Olympic sports. The U.S. olympic Committee just came out in support of this bill, the SCORE act, because it does protect Olympic sports and other women's sports, title nine sports, for example. So it won't just be football and basketball at every college. You're going to be able to have an array of men's and women's sports that are some make money, a lot of them lose money, but you're going to be able to have those protections in place at schools as well. So it's an important bill that a lot of universities across the country have asked for. Again, not Congress policing college athletics, but Congress passing a law to just undo all of these bad lawsuits that have been lost over years and years so that college athletics can be governed again. You know, a portal where every year kid can transfer and somebody can play for six years for five different schools. And oh, by the way, they're supposed to be getting an education, but they can't even transfer their credits because it's gotten so ridiculous. That can get reined in as well. And I think everybody wants some structure back in place.
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Thank you, Congressman Steve Scalise. Look forward to seeing you again, having you again on soon. Keep up the good work.
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We're going to keep getting it done, but we're going to deliver a lot of good things for the American people. Thank you for having me, Clay.
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Buck, no doubt. Look, I want to we'll monitor and we're continuing with the FBI press conference. We may go to it live when we come back out of the next break. We'll certainly have cuts for you. Cash Patel speaking right now. FBI Director online scammers love the holiday season just as much as you do. Unfortunately, they use the COVID of the holiday season to take advantage of so many people online. Cyber threats everywhere. That's why LifeLock will monitor hundreds of millions of data points a second for identity threats. They build secure online systems that do it to protect your online identity. When they see your data mixed up in a data breach or used in irregular patterns unlike your normal activity, they check it out. They're in to try to protect you. If you do become a victim of identity theft, you get your own restoration specialist who will fix that. Identity theft guaranteed or your money back. Your protection backed by Lifelocks million dollar protection package. Join now. Say 40% off your first year with promo code Clay. Call 1-800-LIFELOCK or go online to lifelock.com promo code Clay for 40 off, that's lifelock.com promo code clay. You ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. Reclaim your sanity with clay and bun. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Ten athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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You are the fittest of the fitness. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.
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This is when mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated.
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Pressure is coming down.
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This is Trainer Games.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.
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Every corner of your home this holiday with the new Whim Sound smart speaker. Get high resolution audio with a 1.8-inch touchscreen, smart control and modern design in one powerful speaker for just $2.99. From quiet mornings to lively holiday gatherings, Wimsound makes every moment sound better and feel better too. Get the gift of the season for the music enthusiast in your life or for yourself. Whim Sound Beautifully designed, effortlessly configured, connected. Shop now at Amazon and search Whim Sound that's W I I m S O u n D. We've been duped, hoodwinked, conned for 50 years, the lawn care industry sold us toxins in a bag and left our yards more toxic than a bad relationship. Sundae helps you ditch the chemicals and feed your lawn the good stuff. Soybean proteins, iron, seaweed, molasses. Ingredients that get your soil giggling like an overserved mom at the block party. Sundae uses clean ingredients in real science for thicker, greener grass this Black Friday. Get 30% off and lock in your spring subscription. Sunday a smarter, healthier yard. Getsunday.com getsunday.com welcome back into Clay and Buck.
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We're going to join this FBI press conference right now. Darren Cox of the FBI Washington Field Office is Speaking. Let's hear what he's saying.
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Partners. I know some people had given up on finding the perpetrator, but not the FBI and not our partners. We do not forget, we do not give up and we do not relent. Though it had been nearly five years, our team continued to churn through massive amounts of data and tips that we.
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Used to identify this suspect.
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I want to thank Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino for their leadership and for providing us the resources and the personnel to reevaluate all of the data that we had. We dove into more than 3 million.
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Lines of data to come up with this suspect.
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Director Patel, Deputy Director Bongino, thank you for your support. Thank you for your passion and thank you for your investment in this investigation. From me, on behalf of the investigators, the Washington field office and all of.
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Our partners, thank you. I'd also like to thank Judge Pirro.
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Judge, your team and you are absolutely amazing.
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You're the type of prosecutors and U.S.
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Attorneys, U.S. attorney that all of the.
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Investigators across the country want to work with.
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They're hard nose and they're aggressive. Thank you for that.
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I'd also like to thank the American public, the American.
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They gave us. We'll play for you the opening statement coming up here in a few minutes from Cash Patel, the FBI Director. Deputy Director Bongino also spoke. Now. Now we're in the. This is now just pretty much all thanks and we're continuing to monitor this. But Clay, a few things. A quick reaction to this. I get the sense that they are darn sure that they have the guy because you don't want to hold the press conference congratulating everybody for your great investigative work if you don't have the guy now. And presumption of innocence still applies, alleged, all of that. But I'm just saying this is not likely to be a situation where in a week they say, you know, it turns out this guy actually was in. Was in Topeka on that night. I don't think so.
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Yeah.
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And look, I mean, here is some of the early stuff that is coming out about this alleged pipe Bomber. He is 30 years old, still living at home. Some people.
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Clay keeps on just hammering this living at home guy thing.
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I just. If you're 30 and you're a dude and you live at home, then I think you've kind of failed to launch would just be my take. He does not appear in any way to be a.
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Trump supporter. So this whole idea that they tried to put together of, hey, look, this is all directly connected to January 6th. This is how much of an insurrection it was. They had pipe bombs that they were trying to put out. To me, one of the most intriguing, I think, in fact, we have the opening statement from Pam Bondi. So let's go ahead and play that, if we could. Judge Jeanine Pirro is up at the, is up at the mic right now. But let's play Pam Bondi's opening statement.
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Early this morning, Brian Cole Jr. Was arrested and charged with placing the pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC on January 5, 2021. He has been charged with violating 18 USC 844, which is use of an explosive device. This investigation is ongoing. As we speak, search warrants are being executed and there could be more charges to come. I'm going to let our U.S. attorney discuss that shortly. This was the work of multiple agencies working together. This morning's operation was carried out safely and successfully. We know that there is. There are so many issues when you're issuing search warrants. Dangerous things can happen. And this was carried out safely and secure, securely, thanks to all of the people standing around me.
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Okay, so a couple of things that are out there about this guy, Brian Cole Jr. Living at home with his parents. Dad is a bail bondsman, reportedly. Mom is a real estate agent. Grandma has been found and she says, boy, we had no idea. I guess it would be a surprise if you knew your grandson was a potential pipe bomber. I don't imagine most grandparents out there would expect that to be the outcome. But I think the most significant part of this, and we'll talk about this with Julie Kelly at 2:30, is that they said basically there wasn't a desire to catch this guy. I'm paraphrasing that they went back over all of the evidence. Dan Bongino and Cash Patel said, we're going to get this guy when they came in. And it appears, assuming that, that this is the right guy and everybody has a presumption of innocence in all cases such as these. But again, to Buck's point, you've brought the entire totality of the attorney General, the head of the FBI, the chief prosecuting attorney in Washington, D.C. all these people to the press conference. They have to be very, very confident that they have got the right guy. 30 years old would have only been around 25 years old when this happened. And again, I think it's going to go shatter some of the narrative out there that they wanted to create, that this was a huge insurrection. Remember, Buck, the fact that there were pipe bombs involved, weapons is incredibly key to the narrative that Jan.6 was an insurrection, that it was the worst day our nation has seen since the Civil War. That was the actual argument made by Joe Biden and by Kamala Harris and that there were pipe bombs being brought to bear and all these different things. Remember, they've claimed, what do they say? Six different police officers were killed when the reality is the only person who died on that day was the Air Force veteran who was trying to. Ashley Babbitt.
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Ashley Babbitt, yeah.
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Yeah.
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But literally there were zero deaths. They tried to say six people died. They've taken heart attacks that happened weeks, months afterwards and said this is connected to Jan6. So we will talk about all of this with Julie Kelly in the next hour. Press conference still ongoing. Pam Bondi still speaking. We will monitor and make sure that we get all of the details correct for you from this press conference in the next hour. We'll also take your calls. 800-282-282-2882. You can react to many of the different topics that we have been engaged in so far and we'll have some fun. Third hour of the program coming up next.
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Looking forward to it. Everybody light up those lines. 800-282-2882. We'll have some of the most important parts of this press conference. Continue to bring that to you. Get your calls, get your talk backs and that's where we're heading next. So stick around.
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We'll be back with you in just a moment.
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10 athletes will face the toughest job interview in fitness that will push past physical and mental breaking points.
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You are the fittest of the fit. Only one of you will leave here with an IFIT contract for $250,000.
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This is where mindset comes in.
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Someone will be eliminated.
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Pressure is coming down.
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This is Trainer Games.
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Watch it on prime video starting January 8th.
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Then the space hamster flew his hot.
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Air balloon all the way to the bottom of the ocean. Where did that story come from? Book Dream? Nope. It came from a conversation. Meet Miko Mini plus, the AI companion that co creates personalized story adventures with your child in real time. What color was the hamster's cape and what did he pack for lunch? Unlock your child's imagination. Discover Miko Mini plus and the magic of AI Exclusively at Costco. Come for the Black Friday seasonal savings. Stay for the award winning reporting. For a limited time, access to the Washington Post is just 99 cents. That's unlimited access to all of the posts for only 99 cents every four weeks that's a great deal for the first year. After that, it'll cost $12 every four weeks. You can cancel anytime. But don't wait. This Black Friday seasonal offer won't be here for long. Go to washingtonpost.com iheart and grab this deal before it's gone. That's washingtonpost.com iheart bring incredible sound into.
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