Hour 2 - Iran's Public Executions

Summary

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 2 - Iran's Public Executions
Date: March 19, 2026
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton pivot from their trademark banter and pop culture reviews to tackle urgent global headlines about Iran's public executions, the ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict, and how these topics intersect with media narratives and U.S. politics. The hosts unpack Donald Trump's viral Oval Office remark about Pearl Harbor, discuss failures of the American media in covering Iranian atrocities, and examine the impact of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding standoff on TSA agents and airport security. As always, the pair keep their tone conversational—mixing humor and seriousness, while offering sharp political commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Debrief: Movie Review Banter & Segue (03:07–12:47)

• Movie Review Tangent: Clay and Buck open with a spirited, tongue-in-cheek movie review session:

  • Clay critiques “War Machine” as “the dumbest movie maybe I’ve ever seen” (08:15), and Buck compares it to a less effective version of “Predator.”
  • Producer Ali texts in live to call a newly Oscar-winning film “crap” (05:56).
  • They reminisce about ‘80s action films and mustache icons like Tom Selleck.

• Quote:

  • “I am doing all of you a service. I sit through these movies so you don't have to.” — Clay Travis [07:41]

2. Trump’s Japan “Pearl Harbor” Viral Remark (12:47–14:02)

• Context: Trump, during a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister, was asked why the U.S. gave no warning before striking Iran.
• Trump’s Quip:

  “We didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” — Donald Trump (quoted by Clay Travis) [13:16]

• Hosts’ Reactions:
  • Clay and Buck find it “hilarious” and note the response is “going mega viral.”
  • Buck: “He’s really funny.” [13:32]
  • Clay frames it as classic Trump: flipping a tough question into a memorable, viral soundbite.

3. Moral Clarity & American Media’s Failure Covering Iran (14:02–17:54)

• Australian Press vs. US Coverage:

  • Clay references The Australian newspaper publishing faces of 30,000 Iranian victims murdered for protesting the regime—contrast with limited U.S. media coverage.

• Recent Execution:

  • A 19-year-old champion wrestler publicly hanged for protest; Clay and Buck highlight this as emblematic of the Iranian government’s brutality.

• Quote:

  • “Good and evil still exists and Iran is evil—and the government of Iran, not the people. I think much of the media has lost the ability to call good and evil because they've bought into this idea that the United States is evil too. And if we're evil, then there is no good.” — Clay Travis [16:21]

• Media Critique:

  • Clay questions if today’s “left-wing media” is even capable of recognizing America as a global force for good, using WWII coverage as a hypothetical comparison.
  • “It makes me wonder...how would today's American media cover World War II?” — Clay Travis [16:47]

4. TSA Pay Crisis & DHS Funding Standoff (25:08–37:43)

4.1. Testimony Highlight: Cash Patel

• Clip:
  • Cash Patel, acting as or quoting the FBI Director, explains that due to a funding impasse, Homeland Security officers are working without pay, undermining American security.
  • “Those officers are now going one month without pay, but they're still showing up to work. But yes, funding would absolutely help us protect the homeland.” — (Patel, as quoted; ~27:08)

4.2. Hosts’ Outrage at TSA Situation

• Impact on TSA Agents:
  • Buck:
    • “The average TSA agent makes about $40,000 a year ... They're working paycheck to paycheck ... It is actually making us far more dangerous because a lot of people are having to go find other jobs or they're calling in sick or they're quitting because they're fed up with the fact that they're not getting paid for their work.” [27:39]
    • Notes lines at airports extending into parking garages.
  • Clay:
    • “If I have to stand in line for hours to go through airport security, I want everybody involved fired.” [29:41]
    • Blames Democrats—specifically Chuck Schumer—claiming the pay freeze is political retaliation related to ICE shootings in Minneapolis (31:43).

4.3. Political Analysis: Democrat Strategy & “Misery as Politics”

• Buck:
  • Suggests Democrats are using the shutdown to maximize public misery, comparing it to insurgent tactics in Iraq:
    • “They benefit from misery. All they have to do is create misery. At some level, they're winning, right?” [37:43]
• Clay:
  • Links current TSA/DHS situation to past “George Floydism,” criticizing Democrats for using crises as leverage for their base (36:12).
  • Points out that agents making modest salaries can’t go two months without pay, calling the standoff “reprehensible.”

4.4. Congressional Accountability: Should Lawmakers Go Unpaid? (44:13–46:17)

• Listener Suggestion:
  • Why not stop paying Congress during shutdowns?
• Hosts Agree:
  • Clay:
    • “I think that every single person who works on Capitol Hill should not get paid if Congress shuts down the government instead of the TSA agents having to bear the brunt.” [44:13]
  • Buck:
    • “I think it's a great point ... If you're going to argue this is so politically necessary, actually do it to yourself.” [45:43]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Trump’s Viral Comment
  • “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” — Donald Trump, via Clay [13:16]
  • “He's really funny.” — Buck Sexton [13:32]
• On the Media and Morality
  • “Good and evil still exists ... Iran is evil, and the government of Iran, not the people of Iran. Much of the media has lost the ability to call good and evil.” — Clay Travis [16:21]
  • “How would today's American media cover World War II?” — Clay Travis [16:47]
• On TSA Funding Standoff
  • “No pay is wrong, making us more dangerous in the country at a time when there are people trying to attack us.” — Clay Travis [36:05]
  • “Democrats, like a bunch of babies throwing a tantrum, think this is accountability...” — Clay Travis [31:44]
  • “Misery is easy to make.” — Buck Sexton [38:50]
• On Congressional Pay
  • “If Congress shuts down the government, instead of the TSA agents having to bear the brunt ... every congressman, every senator and all of their staffs ... should not get paid.” — Clay Travis [44:13]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:07] — Movie reviews and commentary (Runaway, War Machine, etc.)
• [12:47] — Transition to news: Trump’s viral “Pearl Harbor” joke
• [13:15] — Trump’s comment played and discussed
• [14:00–17:54] — Iran’s public executions, Australian media coverage, and critique of U.S. media/left
• [25:08] — Cash Patel on Homeland Security/TSA funding crisis
• [27:39] — TSA pay crisis; impact on national security and daily travel
• [31:43] — Political blame; Democrats, ICE, Minneapolis incidents, and the TSA
• [36:12] — Analogy to “George Floydism” in political leverage
• [37:43] — “Misery as politics” analysis drawing from Iraq counterinsurgency
• [44:13] — Listener idea: stop Congressional pay during shutdowns; hosts agree and expand

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Tone & Style Notes

• The hosts maintain their signature blend of humor, pop-culture riffing, and pointed conservative analysis.
• Clay leans heavily into sarcasm when discussing movie choices and the political maneuvers in Washington.
• Buck offers both historical perspective and frustration with government dysfunction.
• Moral clarity and the need for accountability—both in global affairs (Iran) and domestic politics—are constant themes.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This hour blends the hosts’ lighthearted movie banter with serious debate on America’s global moral authority, the consequences of bureaucratic gridlock, and the failures of modern media to highlight global atrocities. Listeners come away with a clear, unapologetically opinionated critique of U.S. leadership, media coverage, and partisan maneuvering around the DHS funding standoff—all delivered in the warm, always-spirited language that defines Clay and Buck’s approach.

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Transcript

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[Buck Sexton]

I think that's right.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I know these countries with their president and their prime ministers, presidents, you

[Buck Sexton]

know, like it's, it's kind of tough to keep tabs.

[Clay Travis]

You know, sometimes they even throw chancellor in there. I'm like, what are we, a university? What's going on? So, yeah, no, they got, they got president, prime minister, all this stuff. I think it's the Prime Minister of Japan. In most countries, the prime minister as we know, is actually like the important one and the president's less powerful. But anyway, we'll get to that in a second. I have some very important updates for you, which just means I'm taking the opportunity to have a little fun before we get into all the seriousness, although Trump said something quite hilarious in the Oval Office, which we'll bring to you in a second, I'm not delusional. There was in fact a movie with Tom Selleck in 1984 called Runaway. And the director, I did not know this until I looked it up, was Michael Crichton of Jurassic park fame. And er, I did not realize this, but the movie is in an advanced society where homes have robots that perform everyday duties for them. Sometimes they malfunction and they have to call in a team with Sergeant Jack Ramsey, played by Tom Selleck, to deal with rogue robots in the home. I'm just saying this was A long. This movie's like we're going back 40 years, my friends. This is a long time ago. Elon's working on robots right now that are going to be able to do your laundry and cook food for you and everything else. So this is, you know, it's kind of interesting to see how this plays out. I just thought everybody should know that that is a real thing. The other thing I saw Clay on this because I looked this up on Rotten Tomatoes. One battle after Another has a 94% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes.

[Buck Sexton]

Rigged. Rigged.

[Clay Travis]

I don't know if it's the mail in ballot. I don't know if they've got illegals voting. There's no way that one battle after

[Buck Sexton]

have not seen this movie.

[Clay Travis]

Now I have not seen it, but I trust producer Ali and she says it is worse than sinners.

[Buck Sexton]

She just texted us. It's crap. Exclamation point. Yeah, as you're talking about it, I just saw it pop up because I was downstairs setting the multi view for my kids to be able to watch the NCAA tournament. It's spring break week and. And so I was putting it on and take them out of school. Although there are probably some of you who got to skip school back in the day on this. And I saw that you can buy it and I was actually thinking, oh, should I buy it this weekend? Since it won the Oscar, you haven't seen it. Producer Ali says it's crap. But to your point, it obviously has got a decent score. But I do feel like a lot of Rotten Tomatoes is rigged now because

[Clay Travis]

it sinners is 97% which is just appalling. I mean that's, that's, this is like, oh yeah, you know, the latest election in Turkmenistan really went the way of the ruling party. Like it's rigged, right? That's why they get 98% of the vote. Sinners is 97% of the vote rigged. Total war machine. 71% war machine. I'm going to tell you, this may be worse than Sinners. This is a movie with the guy who plays Jack Reacher on the TV show. I don't remember his name but he's all like, you know, jacked up.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, I did. I started a show with him. This is. Yeah, Blue. Blue Mountain State. He was one of. Thad. Thad on Blue Mountain State. Alan Richter. Is that his name? Rich.

[Clay Travis]

Richton maybe, something like that.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, he was a. But yeah, I know he's super successful now and actually grew up where I am right now on the panhandle. Of Florida and. But yeah, I did Blue Mountain State, which has become a cult classic on streaming services now. I played myself back in the day.

[Clay Travis]

I'm going to ruin this movie for you, by the way, if you haven't seen it. And I know you're like, fuck, this isn't a movie review show. I'm going to get to all the news in a second. We get three hours a day. Just give me a second here, all right? I sit through these movies so you don't have to. I am doing all of you a service. So, Clay, if Predator, which is an amazing movie from the 80s with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Pet Pedder, is a fantastic movie. This is like a Predator ripoff, except it's army Rangers.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, I saw this. We were picking a movie to watch and I was like, there's no way this movie is any good. It's on Netflix, right? Like, Laura and I were picking a movie and I was like, I won't watch that one.

[Clay Travis]

This is the dumbest move. It's the dumbest movie maybe I've ever. Sinners is a better movie. See, I'm fair. I don't. This isn't about politics for me. Sinners is a better, more entertaining movie, even though it's crap than War Machine. War Machine. Just think about this premise for a second. There are a bunch of army rangers who are training non live fire.

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[Clay Travis]

They've got like the laser gun. Like laser tag guns, basically. All right, whatever. You know, they call that like simunition or laser tag. And out of nowhere, with no explanation, a big robot machine appears and starts just shooting them.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

And then they have to like, run away from it while they're all getting blown up by the big robot machine. And then eventually he gets himself into like an earth excavator and he defeats the robot machine. It's the dumbest movie I've ever seen. Like, the people who wrote this movie should be ashamed. The fact that this movie even got made is appalling. I could write a better movie in. In one day. One day. Give me one day. Netflix.

[Buck Sexton]

I vetoed that movie for Laura because I was like, it's like a robot Predator, but way worse. So you have confirmed that that's true. I'll give you a movie. I don't know how many people have heard about this. The one that we picked. I only watch movies when it's not football season. I actually have time. We watched A House of Dynamite. Have you heard about this?

[Clay Travis]

No.

[Buck Sexton]

On Netflix. I don't know the name I don't know how popular this thing was. It came out last year. And it is about what would happen if a nuclear weapon was launched towards the US and it just takes you. It's not particularly political that I noticed. It just takes you into, like, the special ops, you into everything that would occur to the best of their ability. If there were a nuclear weapon launched, we don't know where it's come from. It's just been launched from a submarine, basically, is the idea. But we're not sure exactly how it got launched. Who was responsible for it. What do you do? What happens if that moment actually occurred? It's a nuclear weapon headed towards the United States, one missile. And it just is an examination of the behind the scenes. You're in the White House. You're in the Situation Room. You're seeing it from the Defense Department perspective, from the, you know, young. Anyway, it's good. I thought it was pretty good.

[Clay Travis]

It sounds way better.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, it's already.

[Clay Travis]

I'm sold. This sounds way better.

[Buck Sexton]

I have no idea how accurate you guys. How accurate it is, but it felt accurate to me that this is something what it might somewhat look like.

[Clay Travis]

And also, if any of you are asking, the Tom Selleck movie Runaway is apparently terrible. So just don't. Don't put that on your list. That was a Mike Michael Crichton. L. Unfortunately, not a good movie, but Tom Sellecks a great American hero. Clay, I can't believe you abandoned mustache team, by the way. I'm still. Like. A lot of ladies are upset about it.

[Buck Sexton]

Short. You know what? The truth of the matter is, wearing a mustache is hard to do without the mustache hairs getting in your nose. I don't know if there's experts out there on how to handle this. It was making my nose itch all the time. It was making me sneeze all the time. Like, the mustache gets into your nose region. And I wasn't very good at being able to.

[Clay Travis]

We probably in this audience have some winners of the international mustache competition. I mean, we. This is. This is a facial hair heavy audience. We got a lot of dudes, a lot of bros who could probably weigh in on how to keep the hair out of your nostrils. So I'm just saying, because our. Our ladies are grandma's grandmas for Clay, which, if it's not officially a group, it basically is a group because I've seen them, and they're very handsy around him. And, you know, Laura's very patient with this. The grandmas get very handsy with Clay.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't know.

[Clay Travis]

Once they hit like 60, all of a sudden they're just, they're just grabb. Squeeze in, Clay. They were big fans of the mustache, Tom Selleck style. Back to the movie, though. I got to tell you the worst part about War Machine, and I promise we're going to get to the Trump thing now. The worst part about War Machine, though, is think about this. In the movie Predator, you have this elite special operations team. They've got all this, like, state of the art weaponry. They even got a. Even got a minigun and they got all this cool stuff. And they're in the jungle. It's a warfare. In the movie. In this movie, War Machine in a training exercise, they don't even have any rifles and they're just running away from this machine that's going bam. And like blowing them up. This is the worst movie I've ever seen. They're like throwing rocks at the robot.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Somebody said, it's Predator with a robot. And they were like, here's $100 million and it's not a good. Not a good movie.

[Clay Travis]

What's so funny is I could say to someone, hey, I'm going to write a movie for Netflix. And Netflix, like executives would laugh. I could write a better movie than this movie. I'm not kidding. Certainly in a weekend, probably in 24 hours. It was that bad. I mean, the whole thing. The screenplay, the whole thing. All right, now, Trump, let's get into it.

[Buck Sexton]

News.

[Clay Travis]

We are a news program. 36. Here it is. Donald Trump meeting with the President of Japan or Prime Minister of Japan. Sorry, Prime Minister of Japan. And he was asked by a reporter, why didn't you tell Japan ahead of the Iran strikes, what was coming? Here's what he said. One thing, you don't want to signal too much. You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan?

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[Clay Travis]

Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay. Right. He's asking me, you believe in surprise. I think much more so than us. And we had a surprise and we did.

[Buck Sexton]

He's really funny.

[Clay Travis]

He's asked, why don't you tell the allies about the huge air campaign you launched today? And he's like, what about Pearl Harbor?

[Buck Sexton]

It is very funny that the Japanese person in the Oval Office would ask the President of the United States why they kept the Iranian attack secret and didn't tell the Allies. And I think some of you would have thought of that. But Trump on his feet immediately thinks why did you get. Guys, tell us about Pearl Harbor. And this response is going mega viral

[Clay Travis]

again.

[Buck Sexton]

I've been reading so much about World War II, been trying to learn more and more about it. The negativity of our war with Iraq, our, whatever you want to call it, intervention, our altercation, our engagement, whatever word you want to apply to this, this current situation. I do wonder how would things that most of us look back on now in time and say, you know What, World War II, boy, we were really the good guys. How would today's American media cover World War II? Are they of the belief? My argument is they are not that America could be a good guy. Are left wing media today, are they able to even comprehend or willing to consider that the United States might be a good guy? And buck, I give credit. Do you see the COVID It's very powerful that I saw it this morning of the Australian newspaper. The Australian is a great newspaper that I read because I buy all the print media. When I was in Australia a couple of years ago, they put the faces of tons of the victims of Iran's government, over 30,000 of them who were murdered for protesting. And a lot of people are asking the question, why is an Australian media outlet covering these 30,000 deaths in a way that the US isn't? And Stephen Chung, who works inside of the White House for President Trump just shared this story. They just executed a 19 year old champion wrestler, publicly hung him for protesting the government that exists right now in Iran. So they are continuing with public executions. And a lot of people out there who otherwise are always saying, oh look at how awful Israel is, look at what's going on in, in all of these places right now. And they just executed a 19 year old, killed him in a public hanging. You know, good and evil still exists and Iran is evil and the government of Iran, not the people of Iran. And I think much of a media has lost the ability to call good and evil because they bought into this idea that the United States is evil too. And if you're we're evil, then there is no good. And I do think this is where moral authority matters and eliminating moral relativity matters. I mean think about the way that two deaths in Minneapolis were covered in this country. Whatever you think about, I'm the Alex Pruitt and Renee Good, those two people being killed were covered as an, covered as an unacceptable result of Trump's draconian policy. Now most of you disagree with that. You've seen the footage, all those things but just think about the way the media covered it. Meanwhile, we're trying to help the people of Iran after they just killed 30,000 of their innocent citizens intentionally just for marching in the streets to say, hey, we should have basic human rights. I do think it's hard to reconcile that, and I think it's a profound failure of the American media. And it makes me wonder to what extent can, can we even comprehend the way that something like World War II, which I think most people would say, hey, we were the good guys. How would today's American media cover World War II? And how are they failing when they're covering the Iran situation? I think it's a honestly big picture question that's worth a lot of people comprehending and contemplating.

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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton SHOW Try to give a lot of tips to everyone out there. I don't know how many people know this. Buck, I've got a tip for you. You know, sometimes you have to go to a sporting event, you're not a sporting person or you're going to go to a party. NCAA tournaments under underway, all these things. Do you know how you could tell who the favored team is in any NCAA tournament basketball game that is currently going to be going on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, which would then allow you to just by looking at the screen and this is assuming you don't see the seeds sound super intelligent. Even if you know nothing about college basketball. I'm going to give all of you a tip. It's going to blow a lot of your minds if you're not a sports fan. The favored team in the NCAA tournament is always wearing white. So if you just walked in and you just saw the basketball game was going on and you saw a score and for instance, right now Ohio State is the 8 seed and they are losing to the 9 seed TCU. First game to have tipped off, you could just say, boy, this is surprising. I thought Ohio State would beat tcu. You don't need to know anything. You would have that opinion entirely based on the fact that they are wearing the white jersey. So I have blown some of your minds. If you're out there and you have a lot of sports fans don't even know this about the NCAA tournament, you look at that, you immediately know who is the favored team in the NCAA tournament. They wear home whites. I'm a woman and I don't have a mustache, Kendra says, but my husband has quite the impressive goatee and is working on a handlebar mustache. The trick is the wax. He looks quite handsome and dashing. Look, I, I, if I'm starting to wax a mustache like th this is way more work than I want to get involved on. Buck. Like I barely I comb my hair once. I don't do hair product. I don't do any of that stuff.

[Clay Travis]

Did Laura ever give you, I mean she is the final authority on clay facial hair. Did she give you a beard better than mustache, mustache better than beard or did she, was she kind of agnostic?

[Buck Sexton]

She was kind of agnostic. I think she's given up on me looking very good no matter what choices I make. I mean, after 22 years, I know

[Clay Travis]

Clay looks very handsome. Come on.

[Buck Sexton]

I think she's given up. All right, when we come back, Cash Patel is testifying on Capitol Hill right now. You know how awful this is with all the TSA lines. Buck, we need to tee off on this.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

This is ridiculous. The average TSA agent makes about $40,000 a year. Now some of them make more. They are working as a result, as almost anybody who makes $40,000 a year is. They are working paycheck to paycheck, trying to save, trying to take care like everybody else out there. To me, this is a great example of a choice that has been made that is indefensible. Now on top of that, I think there is a. It's not the correct thing to do for the people who are doing those jobs. They deserve to be paid, as all of us do, for the work that they do at the time that they do it. Second, it is actually making us far more dangerous because a lot of people are having to go find other jobs or they're calling in sick or they're quitting because they're fed up with the fact that they're not getting paid for their work, as many of you would be as well. And on top of that, if you're going through TSA right now, every morning I wake up, Buck, and I go through and I'm doing prep for the show and there is a different airport going viral because the lines have extended outside of the airport into parking garages outdoors. This is lunacy. And I think it honestly should be a bigger story. I think it would be a bigger story if Iran wasn't going on. I think all the newscasts would be setting up at the airport and they would be interviewing angry people. Buck, I don't know about you. I don't care what your politics are. If I have to stand in line for hours to go through airport security, I want everybody involved fired. I'm just be honest with you. Democrat, Republican, Independent. I think most people, if you are standing in line now, look, Democrats are the ones that have refused to open. And I think that's important to say. And they are asking for things that have nothing to do whatsoever with the TSA and they are breaking previously agreed upon spending protocols. All of that is true. But I'm telling you, you want something where people are just steaming mad no matter what you make Somebody stand in line for hours at the tsa, they're going to be furious. They're going to be mean to the TSA agents, They're going to be angry and embittered when they get on airplanes. If they're fortunate enough to make their flights, they're going to be less kind than they normally would be to flight attendants, to different airline employees that are working inside of the airports. This is why every airline CEO in America published an open letter saying, get this funded and pay everybody. And Buck. The ridiculous thing about this is eventually they're going to get paid. It's illegal to employ people and not compensate them for their work. So the principle or the perspective that's even being advocated for is nonsensical because we know how this ends. It ends with them eventually getting paid. But in the meantime, people are not able to take care of their families. And I just think this is wrong. And I don't think this should be allowed, period. You shouldn't be allowed to make people continue to work without paying them for working, period. Because guess what? Your credit card bill still come due, your car payments still come due, your rent still comes due. And most people don't have the ability to go, candidly for two months without making money. They just don't. And so I think that everything about this is wrong. And I think it makes us less safe. And I think it also makes everybody angrier because I understand you shouldn't have to stand in line for two hours to go to the airport.

[Clay Travis]

So, just so we're all very clear on this, the reason why DHS people are not getting paid and the reason why TSA lines are incredibly long and a whole bunch of different airports burning tens of thousands of people's time unnecessarily.

[Buck Sexton]

Yes.

[Clay Travis]

Is because Democrats, like a bunch of babies throwing a tantrum, think that this is forcing accountability for what happened in Minneapolis where a couple of lunatics forced a confrontation with ICE officers and got shot. This is what this.

[Buck Sexton]

That's 100% true.

[Clay Travis]

People are waiting in line. If you are. If you have had to wait in line, or if you are a DHS officer, a TSA officer who has not gotten paid, it is because Chuck Schumer and company think that the lunatics that we saw on camera running up to people on ice. Ah, you can't. The child predator illegal alien you're trying to arrest is as American as apple pie. Those lunatics got shot. It was mishandled from the messaging perspective. That's why NOAM no longer has a job at dhs, which was the right move, by the way. And that's what this is all about. Yes, one, one has nothing to do with the other. They're just hold. They're just inflicting pain on people to show the Democrat base of maniacs who don't want anyone. And be clear, they don't want anyone deported because they don't want the worst of the worst illegals that are prioritized by these ICE task forces in different cities because they're multiple time felons, because they've come into the country illegally after being deported multiple times. All this stuff. They don't even want them gone. We are light years away from like kindly Abuela, you know, who's been here for 30 years, getting sent back to Nicaragua or something. That is not what's going on. What's going on is they're going after the high level public safety threats and Democrats aren't even okay with that. And Democrats will stymie it. They will stop it. They won't allow them to go into courthouses, they won't allow detainer requests, they won't allow any of this. And they think they're the good guys. They're just, this is just a messaging battle for them. They want to just say this is about accountability for ICE and we have to know, we have to. They have to show their faces and they have to. They don't want immigration enforcement.

[Buck Sexton]

It's crazy. They already agreed to this. It basically is. It's, it's beyond absurd and I don't know when it's going to end. A part of me thinks that Democrats are hoping there's something awful that happens because you know what will happen, right? They're not paying tsa. If somebody gets through a TSA screening with something that they can do harm to others with, gun, bomb, whatever it is, Democrats will line up and say this is all President Trump's fault. You know it, I know it. They're going, they're basically rooting for something awful to happen so that they can blame Trump.

[Clay Travis]

Here is Chuck Schumer. I mentioned him. Chuck Schumer. Cut 17. Play this one. They are trying to dupe us, folks. They are trying to dupe America. They say, oh, this is just a voter ID law. Bullshit. It is not a voter ID law. It is a law that will kick millions of Americans off the voting rolls. We know what happened. Their bill, they had to add this in, demands that every state turn over the voting rolls to the Department of Homeland Security. And we've had enough of them on other issues. On other issues. And once they get that, there is a algorithm put in by Trump, by Musk and Doge that would kick tens of millions of people off the rolls.

[Buck Sexton]

I. That's. I mean, that's all this is about,

[Clay Travis]

the SAVE act, obviously, the Save America Act. But the point is, like, this is what this. Democrats just sabotage the country and think they're the good guys. This is all. They're doing it with DHS and ice. They're doing it with the Save America Act. This is. This is where it is, man. They and Clay, unfortunately, you know, they're pretty effective at lying. I mean, they're pretty good at convincing people who don't pay close attention that somehow they're the good guys in all this. This is like George Floydism we're talking about here up in Minneapolis with the. I don't forget about the facts. Oh, two people were shot by ice, and it's. It's terrible. And that's why we have to wait in line at tsa. Like, what are they even talking about?

[Buck Sexton]

No, it makes no sense.

[Clay Travis]

People that were shot by ICE were acting like maniacs. They were.

[Buck Sexton]

They're.

[Clay Travis]

They were obstructing law enforcement.

[Buck Sexton]

Why should TSA agents paychecks be held hostage? Because Democrats are angry about ice? I mean, but this is what I mean.

[Clay Travis]

It's George Floydism in that, oh, George Floyd was killed by one cop, so now your store in, like, Baltimore should be burned to the ground.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, that's.

[Clay Travis]

This is just an excuse for people to act like idiots.

[Buck Sexton]

But these guys are just. Again, the average TSA agent makes 40k. Think about how many of you out there listening right now could go six or eight weeks without a paycheck. Even if you ultimately get that paycheck down the line, you're working full time. How many of you could pay all your bills if you didn't get two months of pay? Your average TSA agent can. It's not like they're making $400,000 a year. It's not like they have the ability to create huge savings on $40,000 a year on average. I just think this is, frankly, reprehensible and awful. And the results, again, I just jotted it down. No pay is wrong, making us more dangerous in the country at a time when there are people trying to attack us. New York City, Austin, Denver, Detroit area, and an Old Dominion. And the politics on it, to buck's point, are ludicrous. So it doesn't even add. None of it adds up. And the end result is awful across the board for everybody. This, again, I think it's not a bigger story because Iran is soaking up all of the news right now, but every morning locally, this is a big story. If you're trying to go to the airport and they're telling you to get there three hours before your flight and you're standing there for hours in your line, it's a big deal. People are angry.

[Clay Travis]

Let me tell you, when we were doing counterinsurgency analysis in the worst days of the Iraq war, one thing that we would talk about as we were doing these assessments and going into the White House, talk to Bush, talk to Cheney, the national security team, et cetera, was the problem of dealing with an insurgency is they benefit from misery. All they have to do is create misery. At some level, they're winning, right? Blow this up, kill this person, make life unlivable. Because the people who are supposed to be in charge are hurt by their inability to protect everyone else. This is kind of the Democrat approach to when the Republicans have an administration, all they want to do is just create misery and dissension. They don't have better ideas. They don't have ways. They don't. They don't want to fix anything. They are like insurgents. They just want to spread misery because they benefit from misery. And that is what Schumer and all of his Democrat pals are trying to do. That's obviously what this TSA thing is. Make people ticked off, make people feel bad, tell them that bad things are happening, and then they can be. Democrats can be in power. That's the whole game. And it's really hard to deal with because misery is easy to make.

[Buck Sexton]

Misery is unfortunately, the name of the game in many different parts of the Middle east right now, including in Israel, where Jerusalem's Old City thankfully has so far managed to avoid significant, significant damage. But the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where the crucifixion happened, where Jesus was buried, it is very close to having been hit multiple times. Not an hour goes by in Israel without a siren going off, notifying residents to seek protection from incoming missiles or drone attacks. No one in Israel, regardless of what their background is, is immune from danger. And the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working in Israel for years. And this month is an incredible challenge because they're trying to get as much food, emergency equipment, care for kids and help for the elderly as they can. They're also building bomb shelters. They're trying to allow hospitals to stay in business. They're trying to protect first responders. You can help rush life saving support to Israel right now by calling 888-488-IFCJ. That's 888488 IFCJ. I have seen the work they do in Israel. It is life changing. It is incredibly encouraging, substantially and incredibly transformative. You can go [e-mail] we know this organization. We trust it. The website again ifcj.org that's ifcj.org you ain't imagining it. The world has gone insane. Reclaim your sanity with Clay and Buck. Find them on the free I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show During a commercial break, I got a good email from Merill, who I know she actually works nearby here, says Clay, listening to your TSA discussion, why don't we stop paying senators and congressmen or any of their staff until they open the federal government? I, I, I think this should 100% be the law. I think that every single person who works on Capitol Hill should not get paid. If Congress shuts down the government instead of the TSA agents having to bear the brunt of Congress's inability to get their act together, I think that every congressman, every senator and all of their staffs now some of you are going to say, well Congressmen, senators are all super wealthy, not all of them. I think this would end. I think this would end shutdowns. I think it would end shutdowns, Buck, if Congress got treated the same way that the TSA agents and all their staffs and I think it's 100% appropriate. I think it makes complete sense.

[Clay Travis]

You know what the problem is with congressionally or with getting congressional accountability is you need Congress to put the law through for congressional accounts.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, yeah, I get it. But I'm. This is like.

[Clay Travis]

This is like term limits conversations. Like, yeah, term limits. Yeah, I'm with you guys. Term limits. I like it. Sounds great to me. You know who's not going to do term limits? The people that don't want term limits in the Congress. That's the problem.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, yes, but I do think that there are enough senators and congressmen out there who would say this makes sense. Like I just go on the record voting against it. I think it's hard to explain to your average constituent. I think it's a great point. And again, all of the people who work on Capitol Hill, by and large are doing better financially than the average TSA agent is. So if you're going to bear a brunt, if you're going to argue this is so politically necessary, actually do it to yourself. I think it's a great point.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

We've got a ton of different talkbacks, so I'm gonna have some fun with that. But did you see? They have caught Mayor Mamdani's wife with even more outrageous anti Jewish post. We will have some fun with that. I've got a take. I'm gonna curious Buck's response to this take. And we will also continue to roll through all of your talkbacks and update you on the situation in Iran. We've played a ton of those cuts already, so that shall be the next hour of the program. You can also load up phone lines, 800-282-2882. We'll take some of your phone calls. Buck is out Friday, so this is your last hour to hang out with him for the week.

[Clay Travis]

There you go. Very sad.

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