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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're rolling through the Friday edition of the program and we are joined now by Staten Island, I believe, own Joe Borelli. We were talking about as we went to break, one of the first major races that is going to happen in the Trump era is the mayor of New York City. The primaries, I believe, are in June, before we get into the fall. I know New Jersey has an election, Virginia has an election. There's much to be determined about what happens there and governor races in particular. But Joe Borelli with us now. Joe, right off the top, my theory here is Andrew Cuomo doesn't have much interest in actually being mayor of New York City. He's already done it basically, as being governor of New York. He's already had a job that is every bit as big, if not bigger. I think what he's doing here is arguing this is rehab for him. If New York City voters elect him mayor, then he is going to run for president of the United States in 2028. It feels inevitable to me. Am I crazy? Do you see that as the real motivation here?
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Buck Sexton
I don't think you're crazy. I do agree with you that he does not necessarily want to be mayor of the city of New York. Where you're 100% right, is that this is a redemption play for him. America does like a comeback, whether it's Cuomo or anybody else. So there's that angle working in his favor slightly. But this is about a redemption for Andrew Cuomo. He left on obviously unfavorable terms with sexual harassment scandals from 13 women. The state has now paid $30 million to defend him and his accomplices or co workers that covered it up. There's obviously the nursing home scandal. There's a host of other corruption scandals. His employees serve time in federal jail for the corruption under his administration. This is essentially his play of being welcomed back into polite society in the Hamptons with his friends like Billy Joel and whoever else he hangs out with all the way out East. But this is his way to try to get back into polite society. The vehicle is the mayor of New York. Now, I will concede, once this man is in Gracie Mansion in New York City, his sights will inevitably point to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That's without question. This is a guy whose ego is extremely large. His opinion of himself is extremely large, and he's always seen himself as president of the United States.
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Joe Borelli
Now, Joe, great to have you with us. The sage of Staten island the great seer of all things from sometimes the forgotten borough, which is a shame because Clay, I'll tell you, Staten island is Clay and buck country, my friend.
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Clay Travis
Oh, I've never been in my entire life. No.
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Joe Borelli
Ah, the ferry ride alone is worth the trip, but it's.
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Clay Travis
I've heard that the ferry ride is very cool. I've just never done it.
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Joe Borelli
Amazing views of new. I've actually done that. Well, I've done the ferride to go have dinner with Joe before. And I just say if you see a fireman or a cop in Staten island, the chance of him listening to the show, I would say is like 80%, 90%. So we're among our people in Staten Island. I love it over there. Joe, tell me this, can anyone beat Cuomo in this race? Cause Clay seems to think that it's just going to be a wipeout for the other side. Is there anyone we're not thinking of who might be able to muscle in and at least make it close, if not take the. The big job from the former governor?
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Buck Sexton
Well, I'm glad to hear we're going to have to see the results from a dinner on Staten island in the next couple of months because this is going to be fun to watch and we'll have plenty of food and drink when we do that. The question really is who takes the number two polling position in the race in the Democratic primary, New York about four years ago adopted ranked choice voting. So the person who is in second place, who is the anti Cuomo, has the opportunity to pick up, you know, up to maybe in polling now, 60% of people who said they aren't voting for Andrew Cuomo. So it's going to depend on who that person is. The problem for people like me and normal people and my constituents on Staten island is that the people who are possible candidates for the number two are all radically far left, even further left than Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo will be playing the moderate lane in this race. And you have the Citicom troller named Brad Lander. You have a guy named Zorin Mamdani who making a lot of headway, in fairness. He's really good on the digital stuff and he's really creative with his campaign, but he is an out and avowed socialist. He is a trust fund socialist, by the way. His parents are wealthy, so he decides to become a socialist. But he's gaining ground in some of these parts of the city where these crazy messages are heated. And then you have a couple other candidates, the speaker of the city Council has decided to throw her hat in the ring. Eric Adams is sort of the variable. You know, things aren't obviously going in his direction, but there's always a chance that he can consolidate that number two spot. That's really the state of play in the mayor's race. And the problem is that Andrew Cuomo is the likeliest candidate to win. But we don't know whether we're going to get the Andrew Cuomo that was governor in 2014 who was kind of conservative, kind of moderate, or the Andrew Cuomo that began in 2018 when he got the support of the working family parties and the socialists and he became radical leftist Andrew Cuomo or the incompetent Andrew Cuomo who killed people in nursing homes and destroyed the state during COVID We don't know which one of those we'll get.
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Clay Travis
So for people out there who are not that aware of what's going on in New York City, I said Eric Adams has historically low approval ratings. How does it feel in New York City right now? Does the city feel safer than it did? Does it feel like the city is on a comeback from Bill de Blasio's era and certainly the era of BLM and defund the police? How would you assess the safety, the vibe, the feel of life in New York City right now as it pertains and maybe compares to the past several years?
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Buck Sexton
Look, I said this about a year and a half ago, when Eric Adams first started getting into his legal troubles, that we will be in this position where we're going to wish we still had a viable path for Eric Adams to be mayor. And that's how I genuinely feel. This is not some pandering session. Right. Eric Adams was the. Well, I was the opposition to Eric Adams for many years. But have things made an improvement? Yeah, we have a new police commissioner who is hyper competent, Jessica Tisch. She's bringing back, to use her own words, broken window policing. This is someone who's decided she's not going to be afraid to use the term. That really saved New York in the 90s and early 2000s. And you're seeing a lot of life return to city restaurants. You're seeing a lot of life return to the streets of Manhattan. And it is a positive thing. The subways are ever so slightly safer. So there is a marked improvement. Things are finally starting to turn around. And that's. That's why it's all the more troubling that the city might go further left just when we're starting to get our head above water. Just when Adams decided to finally make a 180 on the migrant crisis and started to shut down these shelters and cooperate with ICE and doing all the things that the conservatives and moderate Democrats have been asking him to do for years. All of those things, by the way, we were right about them because they all happen to result in positive things for New York. And our fear is that now someone will come in who will just reverse any of the changes that Eric Adams finally made and will descend into the chaos of Bill de Blasio.
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Joe Borelli
Speaking to our friend Joe Borelli, who is a city councilman out in Staten island for many, many years and looking at what the situation of New York will be, tell us about how Hochul plays into all of this. And, you know, she, it looks like she just got into it with Trump over congestion pricing. Trump shut down congestion pricing. And. And now they're saying they're going to fight us on this one. Well, where does she play into the politics of New York present and future?
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Buck Sexton
Look, she is not as good at using the levers and strings of the governor's mansion that Andrew Cuomo was. Andrew Cuomo played a dominant role in New York City politics. She has some power, obviously, as governor. She just doesn't know how to use it that well. The problem for Kathy Hochul is that she's going to face a tough reelection in two years, both from the right and from the left. You have people like Congressman Riffy Torres who are basically out there saying he's going to run a primary against her. And there are a lot of people that are just chomping at the bits, hoping he gets in the race. He is a progressive Democrat. He is a person of color. He is a gay man. He checks a lot of boxes on the progressive side, but he's also pretty rational on other issues like Israel, like policing and things like that. So there are some interesting dynamics at play on our side. We have Mike Lawler, who's who's emerging as the most likely candidate, who, by the way, would make an outstanding governor for New York, who, by the way, would probably save New York of its population decline, of its soaring energy crisis. Of all the problems that we face in New York today, Michael Lawler would solve that. It's a tough race for him, but it's definitely winnable. And if he does as good as Lee Zeldin did two years ago, then Lawler is going to make a really strong play for the governor. Look, I love Trump. I'm a Trump supporter. The three of us all talking now are Trump supporters. It is a more difficult race when it's a Trump midterm year. So he faces that headwind a little bit. And Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader, is going to be motivated to work some of these vulnerable congressional seats in New York. But Lawler has a great chance of winning, and that's why Kathy Hochul's afraid. She's afraid every time she wakes up.
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Clay Travis
I know we're talking about New York, but you can probably see New Jersey sometimes from angles of Staten Island. I'm sure the Trump team, Staten island.
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Joe Borelli
Is, is kind of a unofficial part of New Jersey. We don't always get into that, but go ahead.
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Clay Travis
So Trump believes, the Trump team believes that they would have won New Jersey, they lost by five points if they had had Kamala Harris level money to spend. There is a governor's race there as well, and it's going to be this year. Do you feel the vibe of Trump in that New Jersey region, given how often New Jersey people are coming into New York City? We Trump historically as a popular Republican on levels that frankly haven't been seen since George H.W. bush back in 88. Do you feel the vibe in New Jersey? Do you think New Jersey is in play with the governor's race coming up this fall?
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Buck Sexton
Oh, yeah. And Trump is a factor. I mean, the two leading candidates on the Republican side, Bill Spadia and Jack Cittarelli, are definitely playing towards the pro Trump element. Unabashed, unapologetic. They are, you know, basically MAGA Republicans for Trump in New Jersey. There's one other candidate, John Bradnick, who's anti Trump and unsurprisingly, is not getting any steam from Republicans, from Democrats, from moderates. No one really cares to have a wishy washy candidate running against whoever the Democrats put up, whether it's Mickey Sherrill or Josh Gottheimer or Ross Baraka, the mayor of Newark. We have a real good chance of taking the governor's mansion in New Jersey. You know, I don't, I'm not making an endorsement in the race. But look, Jack Cittarelli came very close four years ago. He did a heck of a job. And it certainly seems that the New Jersey's institutional Republicans, the senators, the assembly members, it seems like Cittarelli has a lot of that backing and a lot of that access to capital and volunteers and all the stuff that goes into making a successful and strong play for governor. On the flip side, they're pushing Mickey Sherrill, who's a radical leftist Democrat from New Jersey, a member of the House who voted with Nancy Pelosi most of the time votes against Trump on everything as a compromise. Maybe you have Josh Gottheimer, who's been a little bit more to the center on many things, but unfortunately, the Democratic Party in New Jersey is lurching ever more leftward. And it's gonna be an interesting race to watch, just like the race in Virginia. It really is the next bellwether for the Trump movement nation.
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Clay Travis
Last little bit here with you, Joe Buck. This just happened New York City, so I want to get your reaction to it. Joe. The Trump administration has announced it's immediately pulling $400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University over allegations of anti Semitism. The protests that are going on there and at Barnard, how do you think that plays in New York City?
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Buck Sexton
I mean, to normal people, it's actually a rallying cry because the people you are seeing normal in the boroughs, they're sick of this nonsense. They are sick of seeing our streets overtaken, you know, in Buck's former neighborhood up by Columbia in that area. They're sick of these neighborhoods being taken over by these radical people. If this was, you know, this was Klan members and these were black students, the federal government would intervene, no questions asked, because it is Jewish students. There seems to have been some hesitancy from the last administration and I am 100% happy that President Trump is using the federal government to ensure that Jewish students feel safe on these campuses.
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Joe Borelli
Joe Borelli, everybody. Joe, we'll have you come back. We'll talk more about the mayor's race, which could turn into a presidential stepping stone based on our theories here and appreciate you as always, buddy. We'll talk soon.
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Buck Sexton
Thank you, guys.
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Joe Borelli
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Clay Travis
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Joe Borelli
All right, welcome back in team to Clay and Buck. We just talked to our friend Joe Borelli of Staten Island. I will tell you, Clay, if you ever get the chance we're ever in New York at the same time, we should go out there, go to a great old school Italian place. You give Joe Borelli a high five. He knows everybody out there. He just walks around. You know, he's a city councilman out there for many years, so. And we got. It's Clan Buck territory. Like I said.
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Clay Travis
I heard that that ferry that you talked about is amazing for the View, but I've just never done it.
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Joe Borelli
Yeah, I mean, you, you don't want to be inside. You definitely want to go. And it's warm enough to be kind of on the sides of it because the interior is not, you know, it's a bit like a giant bus, but it is, it is very nice when you get the fresh air. The Statue of Liberty view, the bottom of Manhattan view. But we talked about this because it was breaking news. The Trump administration taking action on the anti Semitism situation up at Columbia University, which has gotten really out of control, as we all know. And Secretary of Education Linda McMahon weighed in on this one. Play 23.
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Linda McMahon
The President has said he's absolutely not going to allow federal funds to be going to these universities that continue to allow antisemitism on its campus. The Department of Education has launched five investigations now into different universities to make sure that they are not allowing anti Semitism. Kids ought to be able to go to college and parents ought to feel good about their kids going to college knowing they're in a safe environment and to allow this kind of unrest. This is not about freedom of speech. We're talking about violence on campus.
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Buck Sexton
I know.
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Linda McMahon
And college presidents need to call in the police right away. They have to quell these uprisings and not allow faculty be attacked or other students to be attacked.
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Joe Borelli
I mean, look, well said. She's saying, you see the videos of it, Clay. It's often, it's really tied in with this pro Palestinian stuff. They have these mobs that go around Threatening people and acting like total maniacs because of what's happening 5,000 miles away in a country they, or not even a country in a, in a territory that they know nothing about and don't really care about. But it's just a, it's a vessel for their unhappiness and angst.
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Clay Travis
I think, again, it comes back to, I think Joe Borelli just asked or mentioned this in our answer. I mean, what would the reaction be if the KKK was trying to take over a campus building to advocate for white supremacy? Would that be out? And the answer is certainly no. There is a difference between allowing people to make an argument and allowing them to take over buildings to harass, to intimidate. And we have to apply an even standard here. And Jewish students are not being protected like other minority groups would be from, from activities like these. So I think we need to talk about this. And I give credit. I thought Linda McMahon did a good job breaking all that down, much less serious. You know what I did last night, Buck Steak dinner. Laura Travis, Good Ranchers. One for me, one for each of the boys. They were fabulous steaks. I mean, just like you were out at a restaurant. She did a great job cooking them and all the boys were super excited to eat them. And we had a nice family meal all gathered around eating our good rancher steaks. Now doesn't have to be steaks. You can love chicken, you can love salmon. There's all sorts of good, wholesome, organic, healthy foods that they take you through at Good Ranchers. You can go get, get signed up. 100% US sourced, 100% healthy, no antibiotics, no added hormones, no seed oils. Just great tasting beef, chicken and salmon. I loved it. The steaks were fabulous. Go to goodranchers.com My Name Clay. For $25 off your first purchase, that's goodranchers.com My name Clay. Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I got a couple of clips I think you'll enjoy. Buck First, I want to play this one, by the way, Jasmine Crockett, who has emerged as the chief adversary of Elon Musk, or at least she's trying to be. What does it say? I want you to listen to this. This is a couple of years ago, two or three years ago, when she was initially coming into Congress. I want you to listen to how she talked then and how she talks now. And the question I want all of you to think about is what does it say that you have to sound less intelligent and less educated than you actually are, in order to appeal to today's Democrat Party, at least in her opinion. This is the same person, Jasmine Crockett, when she was running for Congress in Texas compared to this week after Trump's joint address. Listen to this.
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Jasmine Crockett
Absolutely. First of all, it's good to see you in the new year. You know, no one could have told me that when I went down to Austin, now looks like a little bit over a year ago that I would be running for Congress. It's just not what my plan was. But what I've always decided is that I would step up when there was a need. Listen, he up there, he's hearing all kinds of nonsense and bull. Let me just be real. And we weren't gonna sit for that. We wouldn't, you know, but when she called me and said, I think it's time for me to retire, and you're the one that I believe should take my seat, I really was kind of caught off guard. And if he had some sense, then maybe we would have been about that life. But y'all know he ain't got no sense, so please give some love.
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Clay Travis
This continues back and forth. It's just a juxtaposition between basically her explaining why she decided to run for Congress. Buck. And the way that she actually was talking during Trump's speech. She actually called Trump and I can't. Putin's hoe. Again, I understand the idea of trying to address your audience, but she called.
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Joe Borelli
The president Putin's ho.
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Clay Travis
Oh, you didn't see that clip? Let's grab that clip. Oh, yeah, I shared it. She called President Trump Putin's hoe.
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Joe Borelli
That is inappropriate.
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Clay Travis
That is. But the thing that I think is so intriguing about this is when she ran for office, she laid out an articulate explanation of what was motivating her to run for office as the. As the explanation for why you should support her and vote for her. Now she's in office, and she's trying to appeal to people by seeming less intelligent and less talented at.
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Joe Borelli
At. At. At.
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Clay Travis
At just speaking. And so I. I think this is an indictment because I don't think Jasmine Crockett is a totally dumb person. Right. There are some people. For instance, my good friend Joy Behar, I don't think is a brilliant light of intelligence. Right.
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Joe Borelli
She's a decent comedian. I mean, she has. She has an intelligence. She makes millions of dollars to not have to do any of the reading.
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Clay Travis
You know what I mean?
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Joe Borelli
And still be on tv. So.
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Clay Travis
But I don't. She's claiming to be a superior intellect here. I think Jasmine Crockett is actually appearing to be dumber than she actually is in an effort to appeal to her base. But if the Democrat Party base is that dumb, what does it say about her? All right, so that's point one. And let's get the Putin ho comment because I do think we should play that. I forgot we hadn't played it this week. Here is Seth Meyers. This is an actual comedian. This is someone that is on, I believe, after Jimmy Fallon. Is that correct, Buck? Like, he's basically.
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Joe Borelli
Not only do I not know, really nobody knows because nobody's watching.
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Clay Travis
I think this is the original David Letterman show that used to air after Johnny Carson and after Jay Leno back in the day, the late night show on NBC. I think this was the original, like 11:30pm Eastern time slot.
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Buck Sexton
I.
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Clay Travis
We don't really know because nobody watches this show. But here is Seth Meyers saying that he was basically gobsmacked and offended by Trump calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas again. This is a comedy show, and if anything, this is one of the funniest things that a. That a politician has said about another politician. But Seth Meyers grabs his pearls, falls onto the feigning couch. Listen to this. Can we please cool it with a whole withered decorum dance? This guy changed the game and these are the new rules. He literally called Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas again last night, which is both deeply offensive and a film that is 20 minutes shorter than the speech last night. I know we all long for the days when everyone was civil and polite, but we live here now. Deeply offensive. I mean, I would be welcome. I welcome. He won't ever come on, but I welcome Seth Meyers to come on this show. What is deeply offensive about calling someone who falsely claimed that she was Native American by a Native American name? As we said on the show yesterday, I think it was Buck, if. If somebody claimed that they were black and I called her Harriet Tubman, that wouldn't be a racially offensive terminology. That would be me mocking. They're not being the race that they claim to be by using the racial name of someone that was actually that race. Right, but, like, what would Seth Meyer say is deeply offensive about this? What do you think his argument would even be?
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Joe Borelli
I don't even think that it matters, Clay. I think this is just habit now. And. And truly nobody cares. They've called Trump so many things and they've objected to so much of what he said. And also a lot of the time lied about what he has said, as we know. I did not think it was a small thing and I believe I can't. Was it, was it Joe Rogan who was so taken aback by it? There was a big name, not a right wing guy, but a sort of recent recently joined the cause, who pointed out when Obama was lying about the Trump Charlottesville comments just before this last election.
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Clay Travis
You're right, it was Joe Rogan.
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Joe Borelli
It was Rogan, right? Yeah, Rogan. And he's like that. He's completely correct. And it was grotesque. It was really just a really underhanded thing for Obama to do. But what I'm, what I'm getting at here is this stuff doesn't work anymore. And they don't do it because they think it works. They do it because now it's almost reflexive for them. He thinks he has to say it. You know, it's, it's the equivalent for Seth Meyers of whenever you got a cold after Covid. I'm so thankful to be vaccinated. Like we don't need to hear this anymore. But it was the genuflection to fauci ism that everyone was just doing. So this is the genuflection to woke of. Oh, it's so offensive for Elizabeth Warren. It's also really hard to make the case that something's offensive when it is legitimately funny. And it is legitimately funny. You know what I think is offensive? Elizabeth Warren making a mockery of the race communism system that the Democrats set up and operated with impunity for decades. Her making a mockery of the whole thing herself to advance her career. Look, I don't remember. I know she taught at UPenn and then taught at Harvard Law. And I'm not trying to cast aspersions, but I know enough about this. I got a sister who you know, is a high level lawyer in New York and she never would have gotten those jobs in a million years. She went to like, like Oklahoma State Law School or something. I forget what the law school was. No, and again, I'm not, I'm not, I'm just saying you're not getting hired as a white woman at Harvard Law. If you went to. Tell me what law school she went to. It's not an elite law school at all. And so she made us. She showed what a scam the system is. And then it was so pathetic as you talked about, she tried to tell everybody that she was 0.01% Native American. So it's fine. And, and I I mean, I could not stop laughing when that happened because the CNN anchors, initially, I was watching it in real time. And I remember it because the CNN PR guy, who's now gone, of course, but at the time was trying to battle with me on Twitter because I was making fun of them as Buck does, and they were like, you know, breaking news. Elizabeth Warren is Native American. And then they went down. It's like her 23andMe show. She's 0.01% Native American. So, yeah, the whole thing is she.
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Clay Travis
Got her initial job as a minority woman lawyer professor.
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Joe Borelli
Right. Where'd she go to law school?
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Clay Travis
She started teaching. But let me just to build on what you're saying, law professor jobs are super hard to get. Lots of people want to be law professors. She started at Rutgers as a teacher and then went to the University of Houston before then working at the University of Texas and then moving her way up.
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Joe Borelli
Dude, she went to Rutgers. She went to Rutgers Law School. I can assure you that she would have been the first graduate University of Houston. Yeah, Rutgers Law School. She would have been the first white woman in the history of Rutgers Law School to get a senior law position at Harvard. Okay. The first one and only.
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Clay Travis
That is. I bet that is true.
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Joe Borelli
I bet I'd put money down on this one. You know, I'd put a steak dinner on it if anyone would take the other side of it. There's no way that anybody else before, you know, anybody of her age group and time period from Rutgers Law School who was white made their way to Harvard Law School as a professor. I don't. I wouldn't. I would think. No way.
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Clay Travis
And she was able to get those jobs because she initially claimed to be a minority because she was Native American.
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Joe Borelli
It used to be the best, the best thing was to claim you're Native American because it was so hard to find actual Native Americans for these different programs. But I also, I don't even. I don't like this term Native American. And I don't think this is a minor thing. I am a Native American. You are a Native American. The so called Native Americans that we're supposed to refer to fought incessant warfare with each other over who had primacy on what hunting grounds. I've actually done a lot of reading about what things were like in this country before we arrived. They were not all, you know, dancing around the waterfalls and singing to the squirrels and the eagles. It was brutal. It was pre Bronze Age and they needed a little bit of help from an actual civilization just throwing it out there.
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Clay Travis
She reported, Buck. That's all well said. She reported in 1986 that she was an American Indian on her state of Texas bar lawyer.
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Joe Borelli
She claimed she got away with the fraud. Yes, she got away with the fraud. Essentially. It's, it was, it was enormously lucrative. She's a multi. Multimillionaire now. It was enormously lucrative for. She's a United States senator because she was a law professor at Harvard. She was a law professor at Harvard because she was, I think, before that, actually, University of Pennsylvania for a while. And the only reason was because she was Native American. That's it. So the whole. She, she scammed the system very effectively. You almost have to respect it if it wasn't also so humiliating that the truth had to come out.
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Clay Travis
She. So all of this is. Is crazy. We come back, by the way, we've got the audio of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Unfortunately for you listening in Texas from the state of Texas calling Donald Trump Putin's hoe on Tuesday.
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Joe Borelli
I'm going to tell you, Texas gives us some of the best Republicans and some of the worst Democrats. This is, this is a thing about.
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Clay Travis
That is actually, that's actually a good argument. There are some.
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Joe Borelli
Well, it's also a very big state, so to be fair, a lot of shots on goal, but some of the best Republicans, some of the very worst Democrats. Beto. Beto. I was in the airport and I saw a book and it was like, it was, I was like, oh, my gosh, that book is calling to me. And I realized, oh, wait, there's a new Beto O'Rourke book that I could, like, read in the airport. It was amazing. We've got to try. It's called Clay. We gotta try.
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Clay Travis
Your conversation between Beto and Gavin Newsom would be, would be an elite conversation.
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Joe Borelli
I should, I should just do a fake version of Gavin Newsom's podcast where I play Beto O'Rourke as the guest. I think I'd get pretty.
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Clay Travis
That would actually be really good.
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Joe Borelli
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Clay Travis
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Joe Borelli
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Clay, you mentioned this before. I hadn't heard it. You. You want to play it for everybody or should we just skip. Skip the the actual assault on the ears that will occur?
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Clay Travis
We can play it. I mean, I do think it's indicative of what Democrats are saying who are in the lead opposition to Trump. I mean, this was Tuesday.
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Joe Borelli
Ok, here's Congresswoman Crockett, not to be confused with the coffee company of the same name, to be clear. Go ahead.
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Clay Travis
Great point.
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Buck Sexton
If you could tell Donald Trump anything.
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Joe Borelli
Tonight, what would you tell him?
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Jasmine Crockett
I would tell him the girl is fine and stop being Putin's host.
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Joe Borelli
That is real. That is a pejorative. That is a shortened version of a longer word that is a reference to a female sex worker as they are called now by liberals. It's not nice. It's not nice.
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Clay Travis
It's the oldest job, oldest job in the world according to some. So that is Putin's hoe, Putin's whore. That is Jasmine Crockett, as you said, not affiliated with the Crockett Coffee Company, which is named after Davy Crockett, which we just had the 189th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo buck this week, March 6th, I believe 1836 was the day the Alamo fell. And we certainly love American history. Want you to go to crockettcoffee.com make sure you don't miss a cup of coffee ever. And you can use our my the code book, get an autographed copy of.
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Joe Borelli
My most recent book, American Playbook, where there's a playbook of America to look at, which is very exciting. I would highly recommend it. You know that I think Trump said, and I don't know if this is just a mind meld thing, Clay, but Trump made the point about the 25% of government workers, which I would like to play for Everybody, or rather 25% of all new jobs are government workers. This just happened. So I was laying that out for everybody in the monologue today at the top of the show. We were chatting about how things might get a little rocky before they get better here. And Trump is pointing this out as well and how it gives a sense, I think, of how much government has grown. We've also got some updates on the border situation and we have a guest, a friend of yours claimed third hour is joining us on women and athletics, I believe, or you know, women, trans, athletics, all that stuff.
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Clay Travis
Are you Jennifer say is going to be with us. And there continue to be more fallout from the Gavin Newsom story and all of that. We'll also take some of your calls, 800-282-2882, as we finish up the final hour of the week. 14 hours up, 15th hour next. Thanks for hanging with us on Clay Buck.